The Stephen Harper administration is stonewalling the Nigel Wright-Mike Duffy scandal with typical icy contempt. But their non-response invites a series of questions they not only cannot answer but, fatally, seem not to have asked. Click here to read the rest.
On Wednesday Globe and Mail arch-pundit Jeffrey Simpson called the Harper administration "a government of salesmen, not statesmen" who "don't let facts stand in the way of the pitch" because they've replaced good old broad-minded Red Toryism with a "narrower ideology". This deft rendering of the conventional wisdom managed, remarkably, to insult both salesman and ideologues while being exactly backwards. Click here to read the rest.
The B.C. NDP face plant was so bad they'll be getting sympathy cards from the Toronto Maple Leafs. Almost the only consolation is they fell on the pollsters and pundits confident they'd win. So what went wrong? Click here to read the rest.
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. Click here to read the rest.
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. Click here to read the rest.
At last the Americans managed to get rid of the corpse of Boston Marathon alleged bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Somebody furnished an unmarked grave. But the whole issue makes me think we’ve gone nuts. Click here to read the rest.