@Kady – No, possible future prime minister Tom Mulcair, you can’t just...
“How do you get things through the Senate?” The question – posed by CBC News chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge to New Democrat Leader Tom Mulcair as part of a series of one-on-one interviews with...
View ArticleCoyne: Trudeau facing a Senate conundrum
If you want a preview of what Justin Trudeau’s government might soon have to contend with, have a look at what has just happened in Britain. Earlier this week the House of Lords voted to defeat a...
View ArticleTrudeau’s decisions on Senate could have far-reaching effects: senators
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has yet to reach out to top senators to let them know what’s next for the upper chamber, specifically whether there will a government leader there to oversee the...
View ArticleKennedy: The post-patronage era – Trudeau’s Senate appointments plan could...
For generations, it was patronage heaven — the place where Canadian prime ministers sent an endless stream of political hacks and cronies. But now, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is preparing a new way...
View ArticleCTF Slams Superficial Senate ‘Reform’ (2)
OTTAWA, ON: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) reacted to the Trudeau government’s announcement to create a five-member advisory panel to appoint new Senators calling it “totally inadequate.”...
View ArticleBlatchford: Mike Duffy invokes battered senator defence, puts blame on...
OTTAWA — Mike Duffy has now formally invoked what might be called the battered senator defence. Like its better-known relative, battered-woman syndrome, this one involves the wholesale abdication of...
View ArticleBlatchford: Duffy was appointed to ‘friend-raise’ for Conservatives, he tells...
OTTAWA — Such was Mike Duffy’s third day testifying in his own defence that if prosecutors Mark Holmes and Jason Neubauer had any decency, they would have stood up and announced to the judge that they...
View ArticleBlatchford: A new and ominous promise — Mike Duffy says he will be ‘back in...
OTTAWA — Mike Duffy’s testimony in his own defence, battering in its length and detail, now borders on cruel and unusual punishment. In four days this week in the witness box at Ontario Court here, the...
View ArticleBlatchford: The flaw with Duffy’s victim defence — he is clearly another...
OTTAWA: The problem with Mike Duffy as piteous victim, which is decidedly where he and defence lawyer Don Bayne are going now that they’re finally getting to the Nigel Wright $90,000, is that in the...
View ArticleBlatchford: Pressure from PMO to repay allegedly improper expenses ‘was...
OTTAWA — Even the dead are fair game, mere ammunition in the service of Mike Duffy’s florid defence of Mike Duffy. The embattled Prince Edward Island senator — who Tuesday used the language of war to...
View ArticleBlatchford: ‘Home’ becomes a crass four-letter word for Mike Duffy (1)
OTTAWA — Mike Duffy was at his imperious best. Prosecutor Mark Holmes was exploring with the beleaguered Prince Edward Island senator if it was true, as has been widely reported, that he had for years,...
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