The New York Times opines on the recent decision of Canada’s Supreme Court to declare security certificates unconstitutional. :

“The United States was not the only country to respond to the horror of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with policies that went much too far in curtailing basic rights and ...   more »

Spending on federal government cultural programs is often seen as the litmus test between liberals and conservatives. Conservatives often view such spending with a sceptical eye; liberals, particularly in Canada, tend to place a higher priority on such spending. Or at least that’s the theory.

In the Main Estimates for ...   more »

Spending on social programs, including major transfer programs like EI and Old Age Security, will continue to be Ottawa's single biggest program expense, according to the government's Main Estimates for fiscal 2008.
The federal government is asking Parliamentary approval to spend $97.4-billion on social programs, an increase of 7.7 ...   more »

The federal government tabled 2007-2008 Main Estimates this morning. The Estimates, as they’re known, are pages and pages and pages of tables that detail where Ottawa plans to spend its billions of dollars. The Estimates are produced as support documents for the legislation that will be tabled in the House of Commons that MPs will vote ...   more »

Here in Ottawa, it’s not too hard to find federal Conservative MPs from Alberta who have been less than happy with the financial support provided by former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein to communities in northern Alberta who had been struggling to keep up with the booming commercial development in the ...   more »

The province of Saskatchewan just announced a plan to light up what they say will be Canada’s largest free wireless Internet service. The network will cover the downtown districts and areas around post-secondary institutions of Saskatchewan’s four largest urban areas (Regina, Saskatoon, Moose Jaw, and Prince Albert). Capital costs ...   more »

So here’s the story: Earlier this week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper attempted to read into House of Commons record a story written by Kim Bolan of the Vancouver Sun in which Bolan noted that the father-in-law of Liberal MP Navdeep Bains may be on a list of witnesses (let’s emphasize ...   more »

The week in Parliament ended with the Liberals accusing the Conservatives of trying to obliterate the Liberals from the history books.

“I have no doubt in my mind that they would try to eradicate everything that has been good by the Liberal party and by great Liberals in this country ...   more »

Some selected excerpts from evidence given to the House of Commons Legislative Committee on Bill C-30 (The Clean Air Act). THis is from Meeting No. 4 of this committee held on Feb. 6, 2007:

Mr. David Boyd, Adjunct Professor, Policy, University of British Columbia:

 I want to mention the current ...   more »

Canadians love their men and women in uniform but they’re not so keen on the mission in Afghanistan, pollster Ipsos-Reid finds in a survey it published today.

The pollsters says 86 per cent of those surveyed agreed with the statement that “our armed forces are doing a good job ...   more »