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We’re Going After The Perverts: New Bill A-OK with Prostitutes

Sorry perverts, today ain’t your day. The Harper government tabled new legislation on prostitution today, introducing what Minister of Justice Peter MacKay calls the "Canadian model", one that is nearly iden...

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...

Bill C-33 Is Stuck in 1763: Aboriginal Affairs Stagnation

Sometimes, I think it’s still 1763. Don’t get me wrong. I wasn’t around back then, so I can only imagine what the cruel, short life with its bad breath and poor dental hygiene was like. And I—a vanguard of the ...

“He doesn’t get it” Harper Blasts Putin at Communism Memorial Fundraiser

Sorry, Mr Prime Minister, but communist and tyrant aren’t synonyms. At a fundraiser for the Tribute to Liberty, a charity aimed at building a memorial for the victims of Communism, Stephen Harper delivered a...

Cheryl Gallant Leaves NATO Briefing in Airport

This week Cheryl Gallant, MP for Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke, labelled her NATO briefing binder "Not Wanted on the Voyage" in the departure lounge at the Ottawa/Macdonald-Cartier International Airport. In the ol...

The Robocall Trial: Michael Sona and Andrew Prescott’s Immunity

Michael Sona, a former Conservative campaign worker in the riding of Guelph, this morning begins his second day on trial for "wilfully preventing or endeavouring to prevent an elector from voting," or, for the ...

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 ...