The Wall Street Journal takes a look at how our corporate cousin, The Globe and Mail, is trying to win readers:

Splashy Front Pages Help Once-Staid Newspaper Prosper

Toronto's Globe and Mail is conducting bold page-one "experiments" -- oversize headlines, jumbo art -- to attract readers. But one advertiser, ...   more »

My downtown-living colleagues here in Ottawa think I’m nuts for putting myself through a home-office-home commute every day where each commute time can take between 25 and 45 minutes to cover the 30 kilometres each way. They might have something but my comparable was the crazy, frustrating commute I had ...   more »

When Ezra Levant decided to publish the cartoons that many Muslims found offensive, he justified the decision on the basis that it was a demonstration of the free press in Canada.

But a survey released minutes ago by Compas Inc. suggests that such a demonstration is hardly necessary in ...   more »

Charles Wilkins reviews Building Canada: People and Projects that Shaped the Nation in Saturday’s Globe and Mail which is

“historian Jonathan Vance’s account of the construction of, among other things, our telephone and electrical lines; our highways, bridges and air strips; our railway hotels and beaux-art and ...   more »

“A stable number of Americans would support Democratic New York senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (left) in a presidential election, according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports. 28 per cent of respondents say they would definitely vote for the former first lady in 2008, up one point since early February . . ...   more »

Oliver Bartsch (left) used to design the meals that the Governor-General served at her residence at Rideau Hall. But earlier this month, Prime Minister Stephen Harper hired him on to work the kitchen at 24 Sussex Drive, his official residence.
Bartsch's salary is set at a range of ...   more »

This just in over the Parliamentary Press Gallery blower — William Stairs, who was replaced earlier this week as Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s communications director, has been picked by Justice Minister Vic Toews to be his chief of staff.

 

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Opposition Leader Bill Graham has named his caucus critics. There’s a lot of them: 41 critics and 38 associate critics to watch a cabinet of 26 people. On top of that, there are seven Liberal MPs with caucus officer positions, like Whip or Deputy House Leader. So, in a ...   more »

The Strategic Counsel is the pollster for CTV News and The Globe and Mail. I’m subbing in today as host for Mike Duffy on his show Mike Duffy Live (CTV Newsnet at 5 pm Eastern/2 pm Pacific) and I’ll be talking to Strategic Counsel chairman Allan Gregg about ...   more »

The Prime Minister’s Office has just announced that Kevin Lynch, a former deputy minister at Finance and at Industry and currently executive director for Canada at the International Monetary Fund, will replace Alex Himmelfarb as Clerk of the Privy Council.

More later …

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