Political Campaign Spending: So Sexy it Hurts

There’s an election on the distant horizon, so unless you live in complete isolation from society at large (i.e. on Parliament Hill), you should already feel overwhelmed by the unofficial campaign that’s been g...

Attack Ads to Get Nasty(er)

Back in May 2014, most of the major broadcasters in Canada (CBC/Radio-Canada, CTV, Rogers, and Shaw) unanimously announced that they would refrain from airing political attack ads that featured material taken f...

Politicians are Animals: The Paintings of Tony Taylor

Call it a zoo, a jungle, or even a vet’s office. However you want to spin it, there’s one common message uniting these commonly used analogies; politics is animalistic. Beyond the façade of polite photo-ops and...

Can Canadian Politics Survive Without Sensationalism?

77.4%, 74.2%, 75.3%, 76.7%, 67%, 58.8%, 61.1%. What do these numbers, which steadily decline, represent? They aren't Jennifer Aniston's approval ratings before and after marrying Brad Pitt; they aren't the prob...