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Ontario Election Advice with Frank Underwood

Disclaimer: For maximum reading pleasure the following passage must be read with a South Carolina accent. There are two kinds of pain. The sort of pain that makes you strong, or useless pain. The sort of pai...

Toronto Mayoral Debate Winner: Rob Ford

Two Toronto mayoral debates took place yesterday, at a high school and at a college, between candidates Karen Stintz, John Tory, David Soknacki and Olivia Chow. Unfortunately for them, they were essentially tak...

Ontario Provincial Police Association (OPPA) Gives Thousands to Ontario Liberal Party

According to Elections Canada documents, which are publicly available here, the Ontario Provincial Police Association (OPPA) has given $45,600 to the Ontario Liberal Party since 2008. Thousands of...

Couillard and Leitao’s New Quebec Budget: Balanced next year?

Quebec Finance Minister Carlos Leitao tabled the 2014-2015 Quebec budget today, and it's quite densely packed. The government plans to erase the deficit by the 2015-2016 budget, which we should see again this t...

What To Expect From Couillard and Leitao’s Quebec Budget Brouhaha

The day of reckoning is upon us. Later today, Premier Philippe Couillard is expected to unveil his government's 2014-2015 budget for the province of Quebec. Finance Minister Carlos Leitao really drove home the ...

Doug and Rob Ford Lobbied City for Family Business

As if the Ford family needed to add to their laundry list of scandals, an investigation by The Globe and Mail seems to have uncovered some kind of corruption in Toronto City Hall, with our favourite political f...

Clement Gascon: The Quest for a French-Sounding Quebec Supreme Court Justice

Stephen Harper has appointed a new judge to the Supreme Court of Canada, and this time it may actually work! The Supreme Court's Quebec quota has been left unfilled since Morris Fish's retirement nine months ag...

Ontario Debate: Recap and Highlights

The leaders' debate for the Ontario election just wrapped up, and it was a hot mess (for lack of a better term). All three leaders had fiery rhetoric, half formed plans for the province and cute anecdotes. Here...

Rob Ford Gets Wet; Learns Every Lesson

Rob Ford, man, myth, and legend, sent the Toronto SUN a picture of himself swimming, possibly to preempt the imminent topless photos of Nikki Benz. After so many reporters have chased him down to try and catch ...

OPP Association To Launch Attack Ads Against Hudak

The Ontario Provincial Police Association (OPPA), the collective bargaining agent which represents the Ontario Provincial Police, has announced that it will run two fifteen-second campaign ads from June 2nd to ...