My friend and former colleague Joel-Denis Bellavance reports in this morning’s La Presse that the Liberal governments of 2002 and later knew that Afghanistan authorities were likely to torture or abuse those they captured as suspected Taliban operatives or sympathizers.

The Liberals, of course, have spent all week accusing the ...   more »

The Associated Press reports that Howard Dean, the president of the Democratic Party, believes voters would be better off if reporters were banned from all-candidates meetings and unable, as result, to tell voters what candidates actually said.

"The media has been reduced to info-tainment," Dean said. "Info-tainment sells; the problem ...   more »

Just touched down in Toronto for the media lockup with Environment Minister John Baird. At that lockup Baird will detail the industrial regulations his government will  ring in in order to lower Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent by 2020 and halve emissions of other pollutants. This is ...   more »

Yesterday afternoon, at about 4:30, someone in Environment Minister John Baird’s office went to a fax machine, looked up the fax number for one of Baird’s offices, punched the number into the machine, and sent off some confidential documents containing elements of the Government’s green plan.

But there was a ...   more »

Our friends at The Globe and Mail — CTV and The Globe are owned by the same company — have a new look today for their print edition and their Web site has been expanded and tweaked. Over there, you’ll find Jane Taber’s look inside Stephane Dion’s Opposition Leader’s Office ...   more »

On CTV's Question Period today, co-host Craig Oliver asked Environment Minister John Baird about his doom-and-gloom forecast if Canada commits to meeting its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol:

Oliver: Canadians can be forgiven if they don't know exactly who to believe on this issue. Disaster, if we do, disaster ...   more »

While Canada’s government yesterday was telling everyone that meeting the country’s obligations under the Kyoto Protocol will put Canada into its worst recession since the Second World War, the U.S. General Accounting Office — a rough equivalent to the Auditor General here — was telling legislators in the U.S. that the ...   more »

Bev Oda, Minister for the Status of Women, told the House of Commons yesterday that the first woman elected to the House of Commons was a Conservative. That brought a quick rejoinder from NDP MP Irene Mathyssen who says Agnes McPhail was a proud socialist and a founding member ...   more »

Green Party leader Elizabeth May (left) writes a letter to her members about her deal with Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion:

“Please be prepared for this historic step to be misunderstood and deliberately mis-characterized. Adriane Carr, Deputy Leader, is running in Vancouver Centre. We have made it a ...   more »

The Canadian Press is reporting that Liberal leader Stephane Dion will not field a candidate in the Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova, where incumbent Peter MacKay, the Foreign Affairs Minister will defend his seat against, among others, Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party.

“His decision will shorten ...   more »