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Regional Politics

Each part of Canada is unique, so we treat them like special snowflakes.

Rob Ford’s Debate Homecoming: The Return of the King

Imagine a pitch-black room. Out of the darkness, a spotlight shines down from the ceiling. Down drops a microphone, suspended by a wire, which a man confidently grabs out of the air. He smirks, knowing that wit...

Drake Makes History: Announces His Next Album Title

1967: Montreal hosts the World Expo 1982: Queen Elizabeth signs the Canadian Constitution into law 1999: Nunavut is established as Canada's third territory Every fifteen years or so something extraordinary h...

Joe Fontana Sentenced for Wite-Out® Related Offences

Today Joe Fontana, former Mayor of London, was sentenced this afternoon to 4 months of house arrest and 18 months of probation for fraud, forgery, breach of trust and other Wite-Out® related offences for which ...

Olivia Chow To Call In Favours To Ban Handguns

Olivia Chow may have left federal politics, but that doesn't mean she's done meddling in them. Yesterday at a press conference on the campaign trail (a trail that Chow seems very fond of), Chow vowed that if e...

Wynne Presents the Same Damn Ontario Budget

Today at Queen’s Park, the Liberal government presented their exciting new Ontario budget that has been promised to be tailor-made for everyone in order to solve all our problems. Spoiler: There’s nothing ne...

Everyone in Alberta is Freaking Out About Licence Plates

What’s in a licence plate slogan? Would replacing “Wild Rose Country” with “alberta.ca” still smell as sweet? With the reactions over the change in the Alberta licence plate, you would think the provincial gove...

Natural Disaster Photo-Ops: Harper in Manitoba

Political photo-ops in disaster situations are old hat, but they’re really only fun when both sides are given equal opportunity to pose. Such was not the case for Mulcair in Manitoba. Open government, transp...