Errata, observations and working notes
from Parliament Hill reporter David Akin
View Article  The Star lines up for Rae

The Toronto Star, Canada’s largest paper by circulation, thinks Liberals ought to elect former Ontario premier Bob Rae as their ...   more »

View Article  Myron Thompson's struggle with national unity

Myron ThompsonAmid the hurly burly of the House of Commons foyer after Question Period, it’s usually easy to spot the Stetson of ...   more »

View Article  Dion gets it from all over

Jason Cherniak, who is Liberal leadership candidate Stephane Dion’s point man in the blogosphere, makes a neat observation: ...   more »

View Article  Harper in Montreal

As many of you know, the Prime Minister long ago swore off doing press conferences in Ottawa. But he does ...   more »

View Article  Bernier on "Environment Myths"

Maxime BernierWith the federal government taking a public relations hit on the environment file, cabinet ministers are talking up their plan, ...   more »

View Article  Liberals scream for Dean

Howard DeanThe Liberal Party of Canada announced today that Howard Dean (left), Chairman of the [US] Democratic National Committee, will ...   more »

View Article  Salongate -- well, almost

Some Conservative supporters who have commented at this blog wonder why we can’t turn the “hairdresser” comments directed at Environment ...   more »

View Article  The Iron Man

So it wasn’t enough yesterday that NDP MP Peter Julian spent 12 hours at the Commons Committee on International Trade trying to force changes to the softwood lumber deal by staging a one-man day-long filibuster. Nope. When the string finally played out at that committee somewhere around 10 pm last night, Julian ...   more »

View Article  Final post on that Defence debate in the House of Commons

The battery on my laptop computer gave out last night after two hours of liveblogging the “Committee of the ...   more »

View Article  Mr. Julian Goes to Ottawa

You remember that famous filibuster Jimmy Stewart’s character tried to pull off in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington? Well, ...   more »


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