Canadian soothsaying
Is there any game more hopelessly superstitious than trying to predict the date of Canada’s next federal election? Because Canada’s parliamentary system ridiculously gives the prime minister of the...
View ArticleOnward, brave electioneers
As I write this, the Canadian House of Commons just voted 156 to 145 to find the government of Stephen Harper in contempt of parliament, passing a motion of no-confidence that will now trigger an...
View ArticleHarper’s unchanging tune
I recently finished reading Harperland, Lawrence Martin’s controversial analysis of the leadership style of Canada’s 27th prime minister. Though the book is a bit of a liberal hatchet-job, it does...
View ArticleTrust the compass!
In an effort to get more people to, you know, care about politics and stuff, the CBC websites released a cute little “Vote Compass,” boasting that it will help confused Canadian voters finally find the...
View ArticleHarper’s role model
Though we’re only in week two, the extreme vacuousness and dullness of the 41st Canadian federal election has already reached depressing heights. Lacking anything of substance to debate (as I pointed...
View ArticleBudget envy
Canadian and American politics have an interesting tendency to sync up, and it’s not uncommon for a debate south of the border to overlap with a near-identical one in the north. Yet no matter how...
View ArticleMay’s stalker
At the best of times, the Green Party of Canada can be described as an answer to a question no one asked — in the sense that the party offers very little in the way of ideological perspectives or...
View ArticleA Canadian election puzzle
With less than two weeks to go until the 41st Canadian federal election formally concludes, we’re still seeing very few signs that this campaign — which all the nation’s parties were oh-so-keen to...
View ArticleLayton’s dream
Finally, an interesting development in Canada’s otherwise exceedingly dull 2011 federal election! A number of national polls are now predicting that if the election were held today, the Jack Layton-led...
View ArticleThe evolution of Canadian politics
The Canadian political scene is fundamentally unstable. Anyone who doubted just how volatile our system is, or how quickly things can change within it were given a jolting reminder Monday night, as...
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