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In common: Cabinet minister Chuck Strahl, top, pictured with Veterans Affairs Minister Greg Thompson, NDP MP Olivia Chow, Bloc MPs Francine Lalonde and Nicole Demers, Tory MP Inky Mark, Ind. MP André Arthur had or have cancer.
Political parties pre-election campaigning for summer
'We're continuing to get ready, we're not taking the summer off,' says Grit David Smith, co-chair of the Liberal national election campaign.
By Abbas Rana

PMO to shuffle top Cabinet staffers
But the review process is creating negative blowback in the top echelons of the Harper government.
By Abbas Rana

Mulroney-Schreiber probe a missed opportunity, say top experts
The $14-million Oliphant Inquiry's narrow mandate will mean that answers in Airbus Affair will be lost forever.
By Harris MacLeod

Parliamentary session failed to produce significant public policies, say experts
House session marked by 'name-calling, bullying, and mean-spiritedness.'
By Bea Vongdouangchanh

MPs living with cancer
MPs say their spiritual faith, family, and friends help them live with cancer, but they want to do more.
By Bea Vongdouangchanh

Marleau criticized for leaving early
Outgoing access czar Robert Marleau defends his work, however, says a true democracy also depends on a true functioning Access to Information Act.
By Cynthia Münster

Hey, we have a right to be proud of what Canada represents to world
The notion that more than one nation, more than one people, more than one language, can create a single country is a compelling model for peace.
By Sheila Copps

Parties have 'homework' to do on barbecue circuit this summer
When Parliament resumes in the fall and the fog of war lifts, people are expecting much more than a knee-jerk reaction from their leaders.
By Angelo Persichilli

Ignatieff's unable to capitalize on vulnerabilities of government in vicious global economic recession
But after eight tough months this data is better than a kick in the teeth.
By Tim Powers, Warren Kinsella and Brad Lavigne


NEWS

Political parties pre-election campaigning for summer
'We're continuing to get ready, we're not taking the summer off,' says Grit David Smith, co-chair of the Liberal national election campaign.
By Abbas Rana

PMO to shuffle top Cabinet staffers
But the review process is creating negative blowback in the top echelons of the Harper government.
By Abbas Rana

Mulroney-Schreiber probe a missed opportunity, say top experts
The $14-million Oliphant Inquiry's narrow mandate will mean that answers in Airbus Affair will be lost forever.
By Harris MacLeod

Legislative Process
Parliamentary session failed to produce significant public policies, say experts
House session marked by 'name-calling, bullying, and mean-spiritedness.'
By Bea Vongdouangchanh

Marleau criticized for leaving early
Outgoing access czar Robert Marleau defends his work, however, says a true democracy also depends on a true functioning Access to Information Act.
By Cynthia Münster

Heard on the Hill
Marleau has left the building, and Kenney has left the country
By Bea Vongdouangchanh

Will Ignatieff be more accessible if he's Prime Minister?
Hill media need to think hard about the freedoms that have been taken away and whether they're at risk of not regaining them in a new government if Liberals win.
By Bea Vongdouangchanh

FCM says there's 'tangible indicators' infrastructure money is starting to flow
But Liberals question the federal government's lack of strategy and long-term vision
By Harris MacLeod

Buoyed by majority win in Nova Scotia, federal NDP targeting several ridings for next election
But Tory, Liberal MPs say provincial and federal politics are two different ball games.
By Abbas Rana

Politics Page
Green Leader May hopes MacKay will move to provincial politics
Civil Circles
A 'buyer's market' for PS recruitment: report
Indian and Northern Affairs and National Defence departments 'truly get it' when it comes to 21st Century human resources management, says report.
By Cynthia Münster

FEATURES

Feature
MPs living with cancer
MPs say their spiritual faith, family, and friends help them live with cancer, but they want to do more.
By Bea Vongdouangchanh

Parliamentary Calendar
Monday, June 29, 2009 - Upcoming political and government events, parties, conferences, conventions and more.
OPINIONS

Editorial
Rubin's refreshingly, no-holds-barred look
Op-ed
Unravelling Canadian copyright policy recycling strategy...
There's a much larger strategy to influence Canadian copyright policy by creating a narrative of crisis and the false impression of Canada as a piracy haven.
By Michael Geist

Party Central
Parliamentary Press Gallery has a party while MPs are away, and Elizabeth May hosts lunch at Hy's to announce plans for a comeback
Party Central searches for line dividing media and politicians.
By Harris MacLeod

Letters
COLUMNS

Parties have 'homework' to do on barbecue circuit this summer
When Parliament resumes in the fall and the fog of war lifts, people are expecting much more than a knee-jerk reaction from their leaders.
By Angelo Persichilli

Ignatieff's unable to capitalize on vulnerabilities of government in vicious global economic recession
But after eight tough months this data is better than a kick in the teeth.
By Tim Powers, Warren Kinsella and Brad Lavigne

Government running out of arrangements to make House work
The day will likely soon come when the Liberals decide that a risky leap into an election is preferable to the misery of continuing to extend the Conservatives a lifeline. But that day is unlikely to spell the end of the need for creative arrangements between the various parties.
By Chantal Hébert

Ignorance and perpetual secrecy have crack-addict appeal for parties in power in Ottawa
Rarely is anyone wiser when authority is applied carelessly or with a wink and a nudge. That's how it was in the Liberal sponsorship scheme and is now in the Conservative rush to spend infrastructure billions.
By James Travers

"What were the highs and lows of the last session of Parliament?"
By Abbas Rana

Dominion Institute's wailing over public ignorance seems to strike a newsroom chord
Dominion Institute polls are undeniably entertaining; 14 per cent of respondents in one survey identified D-Day as a sneak attack on Hawaii. But it's inaccurate to suggest we are uniquely stupid, or that our democracy hangs in the balance.
By Tom Korski

Self-interest, public interest, and the efforts to influence public policy
Why is it reasonable to believe that politics/policy-making are exempt from self-interested behaviour, while it is 'obvious' that in one's business, personal, occupational and even spiritual life that people act in a self-interested fashion?
By W.T. Stanbury

Hey, we have a right to be proud of what Canada represents to world
The notion that more than one nation, more than one people, more than one language, can create a single country is a compelling model for peace.
By Sheila Copps



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