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Blog Archive for November, 2011

Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011 1:54PM EST

McGuinty to replace top bureaucrat Shelly Jamieson

ADAM RADWANSKI

Head of Ontario Public Service leaving after four years in the post

Friday, Nov. 25, 2011 1:58PM EST

Why everybody except Iran can have nuclear weapons

GERALD CAPLAN

No one knows where a conflagration would lead in a region that's already a tinderbox

Friday, Nov. 25, 2011 10:33AM EST

Will America's changing face save Barack Obama?

ANDREW STEELE

Demographics will help in long term but short term will hinge on psychographics

Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011 10:06AM EST

A tale of two democracies: Harper steamrolls, Obama grinds gears

BRUCE ANDERSON

In Ottawa, there's no doubt economic legislation will pass. In Washington, no amount of time is enough to reach a deal

Monday, Nov. 21, 2011 8:15AM EST

In Ontario, New Democrats and Tories tax reason

ANDREW STEELE

Removing HST on home heating via private member's bill takes advantage of ridiculous set of procedural precedents - and could cost Granny her oxygen tank

Friday, Nov. 18, 2011 1:50PM EST

A thrilling Liberal Party revival - or not

Gerald Caplan

What the official roadmap, the Apps opus and Interim Bob portend for the purported saviours of Canada's middle class

Friday, Nov. 18, 2011 9:19AM EST

McGuinty's productivity plan vs. Harris's 'trampoline cuts'

ANDREW STEELE

Why Ontario's Premier won't try austerity measures or across-the-board spending reductions

Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011 1:22PM EST

Watch out, Mark Carney

TIM POWERS

The Bank of Canada Governor should gallop away from those who would anoint him a political White Knight

Monday, Nov. 14, 2011 7:54AM EST

The Harper government's new best friends: Mao's heirs

BRIAN TOPP

What Flaherty’s tough talk on Keystone pipeline delay tells us about ‘oil disease’

Friday, Nov. 11, 2011 1:47PM EST

What we don’t remember on Remembrance Day

Gerald Caplan

Yes, honour the fallen – but also be mindful of ballooning defence budgets, cuts to Veterans Affairs and countless civilian casualties

Wednesday, Nov. 09, 2011 9:32AM EST

How long can Flaherty keep changing policy on the fly?

BRUCE ANDERSON

Given global uncertainty, it's what voters want - for now

Monday, Nov. 07, 2011 5:18PM EST

Why Harper spends so much on health

ANDREW STEELE

Medicare is one public-policy area that splits the conservative voting coalition

Monday, Nov. 07, 2011 8:54AM EST

Liberal Party executive at last proposes substantive change

ROBERT SILVER

Many suggestions will meet stiff resistance - but at least they reflect the severity of the situation we're facing

Monday, Nov. 07, 2011 8:11AM EST

Harper's crime bill is government by angry old uncle

BRIAN TOPP

Every family has one, demanding firm measures even if the facts all point the other way - but it's no way to run a country

Friday, Nov. 04, 2011 5:28PM EDT

Violence declines, militarism forges on

Gerald Caplan

Don't believe it? Just watch what happens in the mountains of far-off lands - or Canada's prisons

Friday, Nov. 04, 2011 1:40PM EDT

Cut off John Crosbie's Internet service

TIM POWERS

Though he made a misstep, Newfoundland's Lieutenant-Governor is a genuine character - something sorely lacking among Canada's current political class

Tuesday, Nov. 01, 2011 4:11PM EDT

Referendum hinges on how Greeks frame austerity question

BRUCE ANDERSON

As world economy waits, democracy takes centre stage in place that gave it birth

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