Conservative Senator Pat Carney (left), summoned to the Senate in 1990 by then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, is retiring.

Carney, a former journalist who was a Mulroney-era Cabinet minister who helped speed the Free Trade deal along, is retiring from the Senate three years before the legal retirement ...   more »

Nick Bontis gets the deal of a lifetime: He buys a brand-new 2007 Lincoln Navigator which has an MSRP of $80,000 CDN for $46,200 US — the equivalent, this week at least, of $45,000.

OTTAWA - The federal government agency responsible for tracking cars and trucks imported into Canada from the U.S. is bracing itself for a record-setting year as tens of thousands of Canadians head south to buy vehicles for thousands of dollars less than they could get them in Canada....   more »

The Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) announced today the ticket pricing scheme for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. CTV, if I haven’t yet mentioned it, is the Official Broadcaster for these Games. ‘Course, even if I managed to behave myself and stay employed with CTV for another three years — ...   more »

In response to a request made under Canada’s Access to Information law, I received today some of the “House Cards” prepared in April, 2007 for then-Industry Minister Maxime Bernier. “House Cards” are prepared daily by departmental staff to prepare the Minister with a suggested answer and background information for ...   more »