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June 30 Federal By-Elections: Where, Why and What’s Up

There are four federal by-elections happening tomorrow, and if you’re not in one of the contested ridings where all the parties are frantically trying to court voters, you could have forgotten they were even ha...

Michael Ignatieff Gets Hired at Harvard, No Longer “just visiting”

Michael Ignatieff, Liberal messiah and snob-extraordinaire was greeted with amazing news. For the first time in a number of years, Ignatieff will be working full-time, sitting as the Edward R. Murrow chair of P...

Help Us Help You: Keep Politicians In Check

You know you love someone not when you’ve seen them at their best, but, rather, when you’ve seen them at their worst, and you still can’t stay away. - Facebook user For months, The True North Ti...

Conservatives Are Missing The Hair: Charisma Matters

The losers will be consigned to book tours for the rest of their lives.Getty/AP/CP As evidenced by both recent federal polls and last week's Liberal victory in Ontario, something strange is happen...

Government Deporting Man Whose Citizenship Was Revoked: Media Grants Him Sainthood

A timeless hypothetical: would you rather go to India or prison? In the case of Ottawa-born Deepan Budlakoti, the Canadian government would like to sentence him to both. After hundreds of alleged break-ins, ...

A Beginner’s Guide: Election Polling in Ontario (and Canada)

Canadian polling is notoriously bad as of late, and it's fair to suspect that Thursday's Ontario election will differ wildly from what Ekos or Ipsos are projecting. So let's break this down, how d...

Harper Says Abortion Too Divisive, Adds To Abortion Debate

The bozo eruption continues, and, unlike all other seismic activity in history, it appears it’s contagious. Today, Stephen Harper, Canada’s CEO, said that Canada under his leadership would not fund abortion as ...

Turks and Caicos makes its case for a Union

Hi Canada! Turks and Caicos here. There have been a few rumblings about the silliness of our union, with your Foreign Affairs minister wanting us to buy each other dinner and so on before we do the...

Could Canada Annex Turks And Caicos? Four Easy Steps

This week has brought a tropical sort of flair to the world of Canadian politics, a much-needed break from the boring norm of recent days. Everyone is talking about annexing Turks and Caicos, a move haters see ...

Canada is More Than Quebec, Mr. Trudeau

During the first season of the classic TV show, Gilligan’s Isle—a series about seven people trapped on a desert island—the theme song introduced the cast as: “Gilligan, the Skipper too, a Millionaire and his wi...

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