1. G-8 Security Costs Skyrocketing
(Blog/Politics)

At the end of June, President Barack Obama and leaders of the world's seven most powerful economies, as well as finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 countries, will meet in Ontario, Canada, ...

2. Revisiting Wafergate: The Political Scandal That Wasn't
(Blog/Media)

Last spring, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff stood in front of Canadians and issued an ultimatum to Prime Minister Stephen Harper: unless the government passed meaningful Employment Insurance (EI) reforms, ...

3. Harper, Ignatieff reach deal to stave off summer election
(Blog/Politics)

... to gain some last minutes concessions from Prime Minister Stephen Harper. And why not? It's worked so well in the past. Our opposition parties started using this strategy—of extracting concessions ...

4. AB premier booed as Wildrose Alliance leadership race starts
(Blog/Politics)

...  Peter Lougheed Federal: Trudeau ,Clark, Mulroney PC 1971-1985 Don Getty Federal: Mulroney PC 1985-1992 Ralph Klein Federal: Mulroney, Campbell, Chretien, Martin, Harper ...

5. Governments nationalize GM: Where do we go from here?
(Blog/Politics)

... GM," said Prime Minister Stephen Harper. "Either we participate or these companies which are big in the economy will simply be restructured out of Canada. That's not a reasonable alternative. We are committed ...

6. Eat more meat
(Blog/Current Affairs)

... and family members to do the same. We'll send a copy of your pledge directly to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Minister of International Trade Stockwell Day so that they can't ignore the international ...

7. Opposition wants to reduce the deficit by increasing spending
(Blog/Politics)

The opposition parties continued to hound the government on Tuesday over proposed changes to Canada's Employment Insurance (EI) program. The opposition would like to lower the number of hours people ...

8. As the conflict in Pakistan heats up, it’s time to extend Canada's mission in Afghanistan
(Blog/World)

... in order to appease the federal Liberals, whose leader—Stéphane Dion—had voted against the initial extension in 2006. Canadians should be used to Prime Minister Stephen Harper caving ...

9. Liberal Party hopes to build grassroots support at Vancouver convention
(Blog/Politics)

... that we weren't going to play into the hand that Stephen Harper tried to deal us of fighting amongst ourselves." Delegates will have the opportunity to vote for their new leader, but Ignatieff will ...

10. How People Twittered the Canadian Election
(Blog/New Media)

Micro-blogging sites, such as Twitter, seem to be all the rage these days. From Prime Minister Stephen Harper to my professor's cat, it seems as though everyone is twittering. The technology allows one ...

11. Harper’s Big Mistake: Modelling the Coalition Crisis Using Extensive-Form Games
(Papers/Papers)

... to topple the minority Conservative government. In the end, the crisis was averted when Prime Minister Stephen Harper prorogued parliament and bowed to Liberal demands that his government introduce ...

12. Goodbye cruel world
(Blog/Politics)

... following and give you a sense of what it all means. What turned Layton into a Liberal and Harper into a socialist? At the beginning of December, I was mad. Little over a month after the Conservatives ...

13. Into the void
(Blog/Politics)

Hey Harper, when your former boss said "the west wants in," I think he was talking about the prairie populists, not the west coast hippies. The Harper government's latest budget (labelled the NDP ...

14. Democracy: whose stupid idea was this anyway?
(Blog/Politics)

... Don't believe a word they say. This budget has very little to do with economics and everything to do with politics. The return to big government and massive deficits goes against everything that Harper ...

15. Sober second thought
(Blog/Politics)

At the end of December, Prime Minister Stephen Harper filled 18 vacant seats in the Senate. This move was widely criticized because Harper had said the seats would remain vacant until the provinces ...

16. Who wants your money now?
(Blog/Politics)

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty are in the unenviable position of trying to craft a budget that will make everyone happy, or at least not upset too many of the wrong people. ...

17. Is the coalition dead?
(Blog/Politics)

... even took to the streets to either support or denounce the coalition. However, on December 4, Prime Minister Stephen Harper—in what since appears to have been a brilliant political move—convinced the Governor ...

18. A check without the balance
(Blog/Politics)

Prime Minister Steven Harper recently announced plans to change the way that Supreme Court justices are selected. I think this is a good thing, as we need a new process for selecting justices. However, ...

19. Why senate reform?
(Blog/Politics)

... conservative pundits, are furious over the appointment of Fortier to the Senate, and the Public Works cabinet post. Stephen Harper is being labeled as betraying the Conservative pledge (and long time Reform ...