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Does prorogation even matter?

Globe readers leave their audio views on the Parliamentary pause

Talking points

Tories target Liberal 'disdain for the Canadian Forces'

PMO resuscitates tried and true tactics of attacking opposition patriotism and guilt-by-association in countering criticism on detainees

Toronto councillor and TTC chairman Adam Giambrone greets supporters at a mayoral campaign kickoff event in Litttle Italy on Monday, Feb. 1, 2010.
Adam Radwanski

The Giambrone precedent

Did the Toronto mayoral candidate subject himself to scrutiny? Did he invite it upon other politicians, too?

Tourists take pictures of the Olympic countdown clock in front of Vancouver City Hall on February 09, 2009.
Jane Taber

As Olympic clock ticks down, opposition feud heats up

Liberals and NDP trade barbs over Michael Ignatieff's pledge to keep his MPs at work until the Games

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Environment Minister Jim Prentice meet with Calgary business leaders on Feb. 8, 2010.
Media roundup

Green criticism has Quebeckers seeing red

Francophone pundits vent spleen on Jim Prentice for Ottawa's 'intolerant and acerbic' stand on climate-change policy

Colonel Russ Williams, charged with two counts of first degree murder, walks with General Walter J. Natynczyk, Chief of the Defence Staff, and Defence Minister Peter MacKay on Jan. 17, 2010.

John Ibbitson

Murder charges may unfairly tarnish military's reputation

Canadians must differentiate between actions of one senior official and Canadian Forces as a whole, observers say

Conservatives 'building walls around the truth,' Layton says

NDP Leader uses Colvin memos to highlight varying degrees of redaction as Information Commissioner probes Public Works complaint

Keep mortgage rules, Ottawa urged

Advice to Jim Flaherty ahead of federal budget: The market “is hot and we are seeing some irrational behaviour”

Alberta announces $4.7-billion deficit

Health care, education remain high on priority list, causing 15 per cent in overspending

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Earlier discussion
What are prorogation's consequences?

Jane Taber and Norman Spector took questions on Harper's decision to shut down Parliament

Editorial cartoon by Brian Gable
Where are the female politicians?

The Globe's Janet McFarland took your questions

Helena Guergis, Canada's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Trade and Sport, listens to Nicaragua's President Ortega during meeting in Managua.
Interactive timeline
Tracking the detainee transfers

Video
PM sings Beatles classic

Stephen Harper makes a surprise appearance at the National Arts Centre gala and sings With a Little Help from My Friends.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper performs 'With A Little Help From My Friends' at the 2009 National Arts Centre Gala. (PMO photo by Deb Ransom)
In pictures
Setting politics aside
for quake relief

Cabinet ministers, MPs and political staffers of all stripes fill a Parliament Hill ballroom to raise nearly $32,500 for Haiti

NDP MP John Rafferty (Thunder Bay-Rainy River) shares a laugh with Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq.
Images of Remembrance

Canadians from coast to coast pay tribute to those who fought and died in conflicts from the First World War to Afghanistan

A young girl places her poppy on the cenotaph after a Remembrance Day ceremony at a military cemetery in Calgary