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Oh good, I'm not the only one who reacted to Sheila Copps today like skin reacts to poison ivy. Here's a neat concept, if you wan...

This was a great week for the Liberal Party, perhaps one day it can be viewed as a "watershed" moment. In fact, it's hard to r...

A Harris Decima poll finds overwhelming support for the CBC: A Harris-Decima survey conducted for The Canadian Press suggests 46 per cent o...

Yesterday it was the wider net of a primary system, today the internal dynamics of the Liberal Party. There is nothing more counter-producti...

The best thing about floating new ideas, it generates debate, pumps some life into the process, gives a sense of "where the action...

For a party desperate to stay on the political radar, the notion of "intense debate" is an underlying must. Ideas that challenge ...

You have to be cautious about drawing inferences out of one month's numbers, but today's job figures are of the type to be considere...

People can talk about long term plans, growing pains, "insert excuse here", but it's safe to say that SunTV/Sun News isn't...

During the Martin/Harper minority years, people spoke of the "dysfunctional Parliament", to such an extent the Conservatives succe...

To my mind, the NDP have a terrific opportunity with this leadership contest, if they get it right, Liberals have much to worry about. On t...

Why I love my public broadcaster(h/t @KimFox): Cheeky!

If there is one overriding fact that the "Occupy" movement demonstrates, there is an ample reservoir of sympathy for dealing with ...

No reasonable observer disputes the notion that our public broadcaster should be scrutinized and held to account, after all it is our tax do...

Like every leadership contest, we wait for the first sizable gaffe of the campaign. I submit Brian Topp has provided that moment by commiti...

Just don't call it a merger, if it makes you feel better let's say "arrangement" or "limited" co-operation, or ...

Certain issues encompass all that is wrong with rigid ideology, wherein abstract commitment to certain "principles" fails to incor...

The moment you mention the words "Liberal" and "messiah" together, it seems to generate some heated debate. I'd like...

Plenty of ink spilled this week on the death of the Liberal Party. The latest from Susan Delacourt , offers another fair but sober descripti...

The frame is already coming into focus for the NDP leadership, the establishment vs the insurgent, the traditional slant vs a new philosophi...

To my mind, if you want to chart an effective future course you must digest a realistic reality. It's fine to be optimistic, but that vi...