Jennifer Robson responds to the Globe and Mail columnist’s charge against Carleton University’s Masters of Political Management
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Are young Quebeckers really getting a bad deal?
John Geddes on “intergenerational inequity”
Software for your Alberta politics B.S. detector
Ignore those who say the province is governed by a pattern of stagnation punctuated by revolution
Are taxes the only way out of the deficit?
ANDREW COYNE: The government has a choice. It can either break its promise not to raise taxes. Or it can break its promise not to cut transfers.
Former Parliamentarians gather with future former Parliamentarians
The Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians held a dinner in the Fairmont Château Laurier ballroom. Below, former Reform MP Deb Grey.
Let us now think seriously about this place
Janice MacKinnon, Rick Salutin, Jeffrey Simpson, Susan Delacourt and Ned Franks talk with Steve Paikin about the utility or futility of our current Parliament.
Mr. Simpson regrets
Perhaps you will not be entirely surprised to learn Jeffrey Simpson thinks we are all going to hell in a handcart. The Globe‘s venerable columnist is often disappointed with the rest of us, a cohort variously defined as “everyone;” “his colleagues”; “government”; “people who dislike government”; “people who perpetuate the status quo”; “people who try to shake up the status quo”; “people who don’t get Quebec”; “Quebecers”; and so on. So his essay in the current issue of the Queen’s Quarterly will probably not get much attention. And yet it’s worth considering.