Speaker to Remain Silent During Question Period

After the defeat of an NDP sponsored motion on Tuesday evening, the Speaker is to remain silent and not police question period. On Monday, Government House Leader, Peter Van Loan threw a curve ball to the ND...

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...

Surely Speaker Scheer Isn’t Scheerious

On Tuesday, Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair became quite angry when, after repeatedly asking questions about Canada’s engagement in the latest war in Iraq, he received a string of non-answers from Paul Calandra, ...

BOIE: NDP Should Pay Back Employee Fees Too

In a breaking trend in Canadian politics (just kidding), a party has been found misusing public funds for operations in Quebec.   It's not me, right??Canadian Press   Yes, the New Democra...

Senators Plot Senate Reform in Secret Meetings

Shocking revelations from the Senate (h/t the Hill Times), and it's another scandal, but one that'll only upset upper-level Conservative and Liberal operatives. Instead of another spending scandal or the classi...
In Eldritch terror I gazed into the room, but with the question on my lips, the only response was a period.

Question. Period?

  My fellow Canadians, the skies have darkened, and the threat of despotism looms on the horizon once again. Two days after the end of the holidays for our elected representatives, the leader of the...