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March 8, 2010

Hill Climbers

'Old pro' Kuchar helps Liberals navigate choppy Senate waters

By JEFF DAVIS

Lobbying

Former ministers who lobby play down Cabinet experience

By BEA VONGDOUANGCHANH

Legislation

Parliament's budget boosted to $583,567,000 this year

By BEA VONGDOUANGCHANH

Party Central

A ray of sunshine amidst the back-to-Parliament gloom: a Hill tea party

By HARRIS MACLEOD

Political Reporting

If I were finance minister, I'd impose a luxury tax on air conditioners

By TOM KORSKI

Backrooms

Guergis should be dropped in next Cabinet shuffle

By ANGELO PERSICHILLI

Inside Politics

Harper's running on a public opinion treadmill

By CHANTAL HÉBERT

Copps' Corner

Queers, commies and dames featured prominently in Harper's return of Parliament

By SHEILA COPPS

Heard on the Hill

Iggy goes to Archives, Manning goes behind the spin, and Copps to be honoured

By BEA VONGDOUANGCHANH

March 1, 2010

Hill Climbers

Cabinet staffers take their places as House resumes

By JEFF DAVIS

Civil Circles

PS should follow feds' lead on stimulus spending, cut bureaucratic red tape

By CYNTHIA MÜNSTER

Legislation

Feds to focus on economic recovery, all budget bills

By BEA VONGDOUANGCHANH

Inside Politics

Duceppe scrambles to avoid head-on collision with Bouchard

By CHANTAL HÉBERT

Prime Ministers' Hill portrait gallery all began with John A. Macdonald

By ARTHUR MILNES

PM more concerned with reinforcing party's core constituency than converting moderate majority

By JAMES TRAVERS

Lobbying

Lobbyists turn attention to regulatory approvals and bureaucracy

By BEA VONGDOUANGCHANH

Growing concern skills shortage returning to Canadian economy

By ANDREW CARDOZO

Time for public sector to feel some pain, too

By ANGELO PERSICHILLI

Filling cultural quotas at Olympics not such a hot idea

By TOM KORSKI

The use, misuse, and abuse of prorogation

By NELSON WISEMAN

Copps' Corner

Bounce of Olympic games won't be felt in halls of Parliament

By SHEILA COPPS

Heard on the Hill

Grit MP Pearson calls outgoing Tory MP Abbott 'straight-up, fully honest'

By BEA VONGDOUANGCHANH

February 22, 2010

Copps' Corner

French language treated like an afterthought at Olympics' opening ceremony

By SHEILA COPPS

Political Reporting

Americans: the most self-correcting people on Earth

By TOM KORSKI

Backrooms

Canada's growing up, so take constructive criticism

By ANGELO PERSICHILLI

Emulating Obama? Should the Prime Minister visit the Liberal caucus?

By JACK GRANATSTEIN

Time for new rules on non-confidence motions and dissolution

By B. THOMAS HALL, W.T. STANBURY,

Parkinson's disease not stopping Nash from living life

By ANDY RADIA

Stephen Harper vs. the Onion Ring

By MARY FRANCOLI

Heard on the Hill

Liberal MP Dosanjh holds his own on Colbert Report, nation

By BEA VONGDOUANGCHANH

Legislation

Feds to focus on tough-on-crime bills, fiscal responsibility, electoral reform

By BEA VONGDOUANGCHANH

Civil Circles

Public service unions still fear pension cutbacks in next budget

By CYNTHIA MÜNSTER

Hill Climbers

Manitoba, New Brunswick shutter provincial representative offices

By JEFF DAVIS

February 15, 2010

Inside Politics

Conservative elected Senate promise a poison pill for Parliamentary democracy

By CHANTAL HÉBERT

Backrooms

Bring on the polls, but give them some context

By ANGELO PERSICHILLI

Political Reporting

Bank of Canada governor draws blanket media coverage

By TOM KORSKI

Winter and security: an analogy

By DAVID T. JONES

Hill Climbers

New committee team takes shape at Chief Government Whip's Office

By JEFF DAVIS

Columnists

Alice Funke

Andrew Cardozo

Angelo Persichilli

Arthur Milnes

Brad Lavigne

Chantal Hébert

David Crane

David T. Jones

Denis Massicotte

Greg Elmer

Jack Granatstein

James Travers

Joe Jordan

John Chenier

Nelson Wiseman

Pierre Sadik

Sheila Copps

Tim Powers

Tom Korski

W.T. Stanbury

Warren Kinsella

Columns

Civil Circles

Hill Climbers

Heard on the Hill

Lobbying

Party Central

The Full Nelson

Wiseguys

Arthur Milnes

Prime Ministers' Hill portrait gallery all began with John A. Macdonald

Ken Rubin

Different ways of gaining access to Parliament Hill

David T. Jones

Winter and security: an analogy

The Q & A

Kate Malloy

Canada's 'most idiosyncratic observer' has loads to say about climate change politics

Oped

Pierre Sadik

Why the U.S. is not interested in carbon cap and trade with Canada

Backrooms

Angelo Persichilli

Guergis should be dropped in next Cabinet shuffle

Political Reporting

Tom Korski

If I were finance minister, I'd impose a luxury tax on air conditioners

Andrew Cardozo

Growing concern skills shortage returning to Canadian economy

Inside Politics

Chantal Hébert

Harper's running on a public opinion treadmill

James Travers

PM more concerned with reinforcing party's core constituency than converting moderate majority

Heard on the Hill

Bea Vongdouangchanh

Iggy goes to Archives, Manning goes behind the spin, and Copps to be honoured

Book Reviews

Abbas Rana

BEST BOOKS 2009: Authors on their books, and why federal politicians should read them

In the House

Joe Jordan

Parliamentary machine headed in wrong direction: It's time to fix it!

Nelson Wiseman

The use, misuse, and abuse of prorogation

Civil Circles

Cynthia Münster

PS should follow feds' lead on stimulus spending, cut bureaucratic red tape

Party Central

Harris MacLeod

A ray of sunshine amidst the back-to-Parliament gloom: a Hill tea party

Greg Elmer

Virtual organizing: we may not know what it means yet, but can see political effects

Copps' Corner

Sheila Copps

Queers, commies and dames featured prominently in Harper's return of Parliament