'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.

But the review process is creating negative blowback in the top echelons of the Harper government.

The $14-million Oliphant Inquiry's narrow mandate will mean that answers in Airbus Affair will be lost forever.

House session marked by 'name-calling, bullying, and mean-spiritedness.'

Outgoing access czar Robert Marleau defends his work, however, says a true democracy also depends on a true functioning Access to Information Act.

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.

But Liberals question the federal government's lack of strategy and long-term vision

But Tory, Liberal MPs say provincial and federal politics are two different ball games.

Indian and Northern Affairs and National Defence departments 'truly get it' when it comes to 21st Century human resources management, says report.

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

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.

Party Central searches for line dividing media and politicians.

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.

But after eight tough months this data is better than a kick in the teeth.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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