Cabinet Comparison: Trudeau 2015 vs Harper 2011

Much has been made about Justin Trudeau’s campaign promise to have a Cabinet with gender parity. The promise evoked considerable fears that selecting more women meant selecting less talent. The argument, when l...

What Justin Trudeau’s New Cabinet May Look Like

  THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang   By poaching former Conservative Eve Adams, Justin Trudeau has carried on a proud Liberal tradition. The Liberal Party braintrust not only invented the par...

10 Jobs John Baird May Have After Resigning

Canada's favourite angry man is sadly leaving his post as Minister of Foreign Affairs. His tenure was marked famously by cats, yelling, and other stuff. While John Baird is not telling folks where he is going n...

Five Manitoba MLAs Resign from Cabinet

I can hardly believe the news, unable to determine whether we are in the midst of a divine miracle or witnessing a sign of the rapture. In all my politically disgruntled life, I never thought I'd live to see th...

What the Dean Del Mastro Verdict Means in 2015

The Trial of the Century has a verdict. Dean Del Mastro, former parliamentary secretary to Stephen Harper, has been found guilty of spending too much in the 2008 Federal Election  and of falsifying documents. ...

Viagra in Military Considered A Cabinet Secret, Why?

As the list of Canada’s cabinet secrets pile up, the government’s blanket of secrecy continues to broaden. The federal Conservative government increasingly considers routine issues—from Canada’s feelings about ...

Pierre Karl Péladeau Says Blind Trust Not Necessary

Former Quebecor CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau has returned to the spotlight, this time over his intentions to no longer put his assets in a blind trust. As you may remember, PKP made a campaign pledge to put his hol...

Is Ontario’s New Cabinet Shuffle a Wynne-r?

Reigning Ontario Empress Kathleen Wynne has announced her new shuffled cabinet today, and we are happy to say that it adequately reflects the symbolic progressive nature of her leadership. There are eight women...