L. Ian Macdonald wants to know more about Michael Ignatieff.
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See for yourself
The McGill panel discussion including Ian Brodie that John Geddes wrote about a couple weeks ago is now online.
Conservative caucus chaos: The things you miss when you’re wandering the streets of London …
So there I was, wide awake at 5am and poised to bang out a few paragraphs of utterly baffled musings on the latest twists and turns in the Mulroney/Harper saga — which, of course, held off until ITQ was safely out of the country before starting to unfold in earnest, and it’s just my luck that I’d be out of the country for the first major spat to leak outside the normally not just closed but soundproofed and padlocked doors of the Conservative caucus in ages. But I digress.
Debunking the crucifix myth
Here’s L. Ian MacDonald in today’s Gazette on the Bouchard-Taylor commission’s recommendation to take the crucifix out of the National Assembly (and why Charest was right to reject it):
Ducks, seals and polar bears first. Then women and children if there’s room.
Must-reads: Chantal Hébert on Ottawa’s sorry state of affairs; Dan Gardner on official bilingualism; Rosie DiManno on the burqa in Afghanistan; Colby Cosh and Don Martin on the woebegone polar bears; Richard Gwyn on the responsibility to protect.