John Ibbitson
Ottawa bureau chief, with the Liberal campaign
John Ibbitson started at The Globe in 1999 and has been Queen's Park columnist and Ottawa political affairs correspondent. Read more...
John Ibbitson
Ottawa bureau chief, with the Liberal campaign
John Ibbitson started at The Globe in 1999 and has been Queen's Park columnist and Ottawa political affairs correspondent.
Most recently, he was a correspondent and columnist in Washington, where he wrote Open and Shut: Why America has Barack Obama and Canada has Stephen Harper. He returned to Ottawa as bureau chief in 2009. Before joining The Globe, he worked as a reporter, columnist and Queen’s Park correspondent for Southam papers.
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'With us or with the child pornographers' doesn't cut it, Mr. Toews
What you think of the Conservatives’ new bill to expand police surveillance of the web may depend on what you think of the long-gun registry and the long-form census
Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012
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Tories on e-snooping: ‘Stand with us or with the child pornographers’
Public Safety Minister rips into critics a day before tabling Internet surveillance legislation
Monday, Feb 13, 2012
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In Quebec, NDP grapples with the centrist temptation
Leadership candidates face a stark choice about whether to broaden the party’s appeal and build on its latest gains, or hold fast to the party’s social-democratic roots
Sunday, Feb 12, 2012
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Census shows changing times require new approaches
Both Westerners and Easterners will have to think differently about their roles within the new Canada
Wednesday, Feb 08, 2012
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With Ontario lagging, will the West be prepared to sacrifice?
While Western Canada leaps ahead, thanks to robust immigration and burgeoning resource revenues, the rest of the country lags
Wednesday, Feb 08, 2012
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Does the state have a role in promoting married family life?
Family-values crowd has a point, but the idea of a government advertising campaign promoting married families still feels weird
Tuesday, Feb 07, 2012
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Trans Pacific trade deal at what price?
Canada wants in on pact between U.S., eight other Pacific nations, but entry fee is high
Sunday, Feb 05, 2012
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Jim Flaherty’s budget will also be Tony Clement’s
Treasury Board President a capable manager and communicator, but once budget reveals public-sector pain, residual static from G8 spending imbroglio likely to distort his message
Friday, Feb 03, 2012
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Ottawa gets a pre-budget warning: cut the spending sprees
Even if federal departments heed Tony Clement’s warning not to spend, there’s no promise of rewards for good behavior
Thursday, Feb 02, 2012
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Why isn’t EI reform on Harper government’s radar?
Tories are talking reform, but why OAS and not Employment Insurance, a system seen as ‘unprincipled and incompatible with the modern Canadian economy?’
Wednesday, Feb 01, 2012
