An interactive breakdown of the Senate’s travel spending
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The Commons: Just laugh it off
The sooner we begin quietly accepting the government’s decisions, the easier it will be for everyone
Today’s constitutional crisis
Conservatives senators called a snap vote last night and defeated Bill C-311, the Climate Change Accountability Act, that was passed by the House in May. This will no doubt outrage the Prime Minister, Mr. Harper and his government having periodically lamented the tyranny an unelected Senate can impose.
You’ve got mail
The government that wants—on “principle”—to end the vote subsidy for political parties, finds a new way to use public funds for partisan purposes.
The red shift
Liberal senator Grant Mitchell contemplates the potential possibilities and pitfalls of senate reform.
How they do it
If senate reform is, as has been hinted, to be prominent in the government’s fall agenda, it is perhaps worth seriously considering what it is we want the senate to be. And on that note, here is an extensive look at the U.S. Senate, penned by the New Yorker’s George Packer after a few months of observation.
What happened to you guys? You used to be cool
Two of Stephen Harper’s senators are now openly quibbling with the idea of a fully elected Senate—another three apparently reluctant to say where they stand.
‘I am pleased to have this opportunity to respond’
A few weeks ago, Liberal Senator James Cowan wrote the Justice Minister requesting a correcting of the record. A few days ago, the Justice Minister wrote back and Rob Nicholson’s office has kindly passed along that reply.
Unelected senators, to save democracy
Senator Elaine McCoy makes the case for a reformed, but still appointed, Senate.
‘I look forward to your clarification of these issues for Canadians’
Senator James Cowan cordially partakes of the ancient art of open-letter writing.