Last fall, I met Rob and Fran Parker, the founders and chief organizers of the National House of Prayer. The Parkers, a pleasant couple who don’t look much older than I am, are evangelical Christians from Vernon, B.C. who set up shop in an old convent near Ottawa’s Market area a ...   more »

The Conservative Party of Canada has no youth — the party grassroots rejected the idea of a youth wing at their last policy convention in the spring of 2005 — but the Liberal Party of Canada, on the other hand, has an occasionally active youth wing which plans to ...   more »

Former Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Reform Party founder Preston Manning will receive Canada’s highest civilian honour — The Companion of the Order of Canada — at a special Canada Day ceremony to be presided over by Governor General Michaëlle Jean.

Also of some note, Canadian golfer Mike Weir ...   more »

The Conrad Black jury had its first full day of deliberations today. And — with thirty minutes left to their day — we have heard from them twice.

Here’s the rules in Chicago if the jury wants to communicate with the judge. The jury writes down what they want to ...   more »

Charles Ferguson and Sharon Squassoni writing at Foreign Policy’s Web site, argue:

As the planet warms, leaders from Washington to Beijing are pushing nuclear power as a clean alternative to coal. But this new strategy for fighting climate change has a fatal flaw: It can’t possibly work.

I’m down in Chicago covering the final stages of the Conrad Black trial. Tomorrow morning, Judge Amy St. Eve will read her instructions to the jury and then they will get down to their business of sifting through three months and then some of testimony. The instructions, though,  are not ...   more »

Attention former Reform Party members: If “grassroots Liberals” take up Joe Comuzzi’s invitation —see below— your Conservative Party is about to change :)

Here’s today’s press release from the Prime Minister’s Office.

Thunder Bay-Superior North MP latest in a long line of former Liberals joining the Government Caucus

Prime Minister ...   more »

Here are the remarks Prime Minister Stephen Harper made in response to some questions from reporters who asked about Afghanistan and Canada’s role in the NATO mission in that country: