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Category Archives: Parliament
Not ‘honourable’ at all
If someone in the PMO paid off a big chunk of my mortgage, how much would you trust my coverage of politics? Now, what if they did it for a legislator? It’s wrong, totally wrong. And dangerous to our Constitution.
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Posted in Columns, Constitution, Crime, Government, Parliament, Politics, United States
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Looking back to the future
Now the opposition are having fits over the Harper administration … Not really necessary to complete that sentence, is it? But I’m thinking about them being shocked and appalled at Tory MPs wondering how history is taught in Canada.
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Posted in Columns, Constitution, Education, Government, History, International, Parliament, Politics
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Printing money doesn’t make sense
Canada is part of a scary international experiment. If I call it “quantitative easing” you might pass out or flee. But I bet “governments printing money like there’s no tomorrow” gets your attention.
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Posted in Budget, Columns, Economics, Government, International, Parliament, United Kingdom, United States
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MPs need the elusive quiet
For Christians Easter Sunday is an eerie pause between Good Friday’s tumult and the even greater upheaval of Easter Monday, so quiet, C.S. Lewis says in the Narnia Chronicles, “you feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again.” … Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, Arts & culture, Columns, Constitution, Family and Gender, Freedom of speech, Government, Health care, History, International, Parliament, Politics, Religion
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Policitians strangely silent on erosion of free speech
The Supreme Court’s latest howler subordinating free speech to imaginary group rights prompted a vigorous outcry from journalists. But from politicians we heard eerie silence.
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