jane philpott

3 min read 2019-10-22 14:45:49

The unfulfilled promise of Jane Philpott

Jane Philpott deserved better. When she launched her bid for re-election in May, months after being booted out of the Liberal caucus, she said she

4 min read 2019-06-04 01:59:19

Standing in front of Rideau Hall, on a crisp November day in 2015, freshly-elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a big promise. “Government by

4 min read 2019-05-30 03:24:00

Embed from Getty ImagesI was teaching my puppy, Viggo, to pee outside yesterday when a man motioned to me to come to the fence. He introduced himself

4 min read 2019-05-28 12:51:18

Premier Jason Kenney’s newly elected United Conservative Party introduced its second bill yesterday, calling it the Open for Business Act. The NDP

3 min read 2019-05-27 11:45:00

The unanimous ruling Friday by the British Columbia Court of Appeal that the B.C. Government does not have the constitutional authority to control

4 min read 2019-05-09 16:34:30

As expected, Crown prosecutors announced yesterday that they were staying the breach of trust charges that had been laid against Vice Admiral Mark

3 min read 2019-04-29 12:04:12

Jason Kenney will be sworn in tomorrow as the 18th premier of Alberta, so we should know very soon if he really meant his oft-repeated pledge to make

3 min read 2019-04-17 21:23:00

In the fall of 1980, I got a job writing briefing notes for the National Liberal Caucus. I heard about the gig from an old Ottawa Journal buddy who

3 min read 2019-04-12 16:30:48

As expected, the Speaker ruled yesterday that he didn’t have the jurisdiction to police whether or not the different party caucuses adhered to the

3 min read 2019-04-07 12:20:24

It was a year ago Friday that the government of Canada declared Kirill Kalinin and three other Russian diplomats persona non grata and sent them

4 min read 2019-04-05 16:33:48

Freed from the expectation that they needed to stay quiet(er) in order to not jeopardise their chances of remaining in caucus, both Jody

4 min read 2019-03-18 23:44:00

The newest member of federal cabinet says she was just doing her job when she spoke out against the Liberal government's approval of the Trans

2 min read 2019-03-15 21:05:00

In the world of politics, there are dolphins and there are sharks.Tex Enemark was a dolphin. Not that Tex wasn't above wielding a sharp elbow now and