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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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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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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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

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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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