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Stéphane Dion Calls Out Federal Ministers for Monolingual Tweets

A picture is worth 140 characters. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld Twitter: the place where celebrities’ inane thoughts are limited to 140 characters of stupidity. That being said, it is only nat...

NDP’s Pat Martin Nearly Loses Vote Because his Underwear are “Clearly too Small”

Pat Martin, vigilante against “rat-faced whores” and Public Works nearly caused the failure of a vote to adjourn parliamentary debate due to his tight underwear. Yes, in our nation’s highest forum for political...

Harassment: Anywhere but Parliament Hill!

As Peter MacKay said at a press conference this week, Parliament Hill is “the beating heart of…uhh…our democracy.” For average Canadians, MacKay’s droning “uhh” sums it up quite nicely. Parliament Hill exists a...

Movember Hits the Hill, But MPs Not Participating

Movember on the Hill has declined from Tom Selleck to dirtstache status. Movember used to be big. In 2011, 75 Members of Parliament raised roughly $70,000 for the cause as they grew their staches. In 2012, M...

8 Conundrums from the Canadian Constitution

You might be Canadian. You might know about all that’s happening in the cold, snowy country you live in. But there is a truly Canadian document lurking in print and on the World Wide Web whose ramifications mig...

Conservatives Not Keen To Give Speaker Scheer Power

Last week, Tom Mulcair, Andrew Scheer, and Paul Calandra grabbed the nation’s attention when they locked horns in a fight that all but the most enthusiastic political junkies would call “The Grumble in the Jung...

Repeating Scripted Phrases: A House of Commons Tradition?

I, for one, love the Parliamentary Hansard. I know that only myself and a few clerks read it, and most MPs probably don’t realize that the public can see it (else they might watch what they say more closely). Y...

Calandra Makes Tear-Jerking Apology After Question Period Gone Awry

It seems CPAC is now looking for an Emmy nomination after its reality TV show, Question Period, hit an all-time high earlier this week. A show that captures the surprise of Survivor and the drama of Big Brother...

Peter MacKay Invokes Stereotypes to Justify Stance on Marijuana

On Wednesday, RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson said, “marijuana usage isn’t as big a deal as it used to be.” Paulson reasoned that marijuana could still play a role in organized crime, but that the role is diminis...

New Brunswick Votes 2014: Do Looks Mean Anything?

Update (9/22/14): The results are in, and it's a disaster! Ridings have been called back, special ballots consulted, storage chips on the voting machines are broken, and several ridings have differences of only...

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