1. The Jedi Return, But Whose Side Are They On?
(Blog/Politics)

... Wales are devoted followers of the Jedi 'faith,'" the BBC reported in 2003. England also has the distinction of having elected a Jedi Member of Parliament. Jamie Reed, then-newly-elected Labour Party ...

2. Sickness or Salvation at the CRU?
(Blog/Environment)

... the global climate records at East Anglia "adhere to the highest levels of professional integrity." Likewise, at least one British Member of Parliament (MP) feels that parliamentarians were misled ...

3. Free Trade and the Deregulation of Genetically Modified Foods
(Blog/World)

... and to us all. The EU parliament also rejected a proposal to require labels on products made from animals that were given GM feed. While this might all sound like good news, Europeans still seem ...

4. Man Declares Himself Not a Person, Refuses to Pay Income Tax
(Blog/Politics)

... in the (Income Tax Act) is without ambiguity. It is clear that Parliament intended the word in its broadest sense," the judge wrote. Lindsay tried to declare the tax code unenforceable by attacking ...

5. Soldiers of Expression: Hate Speech, Censorship, and Journalism Ethics
(News/Opinion)

... 12, 1981, then Justice Minister Jean Chretien sat in front of the special parliamentary committee on the constitution. “I am proposing that Section 1 read as follows,” he said. “The Canadian Charter of ...

6. The Neutrality Complex: In Search of Free Markets and Neutral Networks
(News/Features)

... “If they fail to side with consumers on this, if they choose a few companies over the rest of Canada, then we're going to have to go to parliament and get a law passed,” said Anderson. Something about ...

7. Geist on Copyright Reform
(Blog/Copyright)

... spring session of Parliament. University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist discussed the issue of copyright reform in a speech in Vancouver on Thursday. You can listen to his talk via the player below. ...

8. Government of Canada moves to monitor Internet users
(News/Opinion)

... circumvent the courts, the one institution with the power to place limits on the state's ability to use its agents as tools of coercion, oppression, and censorship. With parliament out of session, however, ...

9. Canadians want a majority government: poll
(Blog/Politics)

... of legislation. There are some of us, however, who don't like when government accomplishes things, because it usually means more government intervention in our lives and less freedom. A minority parliament ...

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

... While I am generally a fan of checks and balances, this minority government experiment does not seem to be working out so well. The problem is that the opposition's real power in a minority parliament ...

11. Scott Reid blasts opposition move to kill gun registry bill
(Blog/Politics)

... to vote against Bill C-391—off the hook. "It is shameful that the Opposition would attempt such underhanded tactics to circumvent the will of the majority of Members of Parliament," said Scott ...

12. Opposition attempt to kill Bill C-391, a bill seeking to abolish the long-gun registry, in secret
(Blog/Politics)

Despite a 2006 campaign promise to scrap the federal long-gun registry, the realities of a minority parliament have prevented the federal Conservatives from making any real headway on this issue. Today, ...

13. Is Iran more republican than America?
(Blog/World)

... While the country does hold presidential and parliamentary elections, all of the candidates have to be specifically approved by the Guardian Council. The council is composed of 12 members, six of whom ...

14. Canadian government issues report on Afghan mission
(Blog/World)

... deadline of 2011 that Parliament set last year. If anything, I hope people will begin to realize that wars are messy and can take a long time if one hopes to see success. We should not make the decision ...

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

... you. You won't, however, hear anyone in Parliament saying this, even as the country runs a historic deficit. As we discussed last week, the opposition parties are hammering the government about the deficit, ...

16. 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 ...

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

... situation in the region has changed since the Canadian parliament voted the extend the mission in Afghanistan in early 2008. The Canadian mission was extended beyond the existing 2009 deadline after ...

18. A brief history of pandemic influenza
(Blog/Current Affairs)

...  Parliament was not sitting during the epidemic, and to my disappointment I found almost nothing relevant in the papers of Prime Minister Robert Laird Borden. He had gone to Britain in November 1918 ...

19. 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 ...

20. Goodbye cruel world
(Blog/Politics)

... I saw it as fundamentally undemocratic and immoral. Therefore, a closer look at the status of the coalition was a natural starting place in my foray into inter-party politics in a minority parliament. ...