How many times do you see a civilan judge abruptly “retire” or get removed from duty as a judge - even in high profile cases where it involves the government vs whoever?
Not many - in fact, none that I can recall.
So doesn’t it strike anyone as a tad bit suspicious that the military judge presiding [...]

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Exhibit 1: Liberals Question Bernier Timeline:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s claim that he was in the dark until Monday about Maxime Bernier’s missing classified documents is under attack following the revelation that the sensitive papers were returned to the government some 24 hours earlier…Government House leader Peter Van Loan surprised many yesterday when he said the [...]

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Seriously, this Conservative government has so many of them going on right now, which one do you focus on if you’re the opposition? Or do you try to focus on them all, hoping that the Canadian public doesn’t care about the specifics of each scandal, but grasps that whatever the details, the Conservatives aren’t a [...]

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Linda Diebel has been a long-time political reporter at the Toronto Star.  She’s written a lot of good stuff, and some stuff I didn’t agree with, but that happens.
She has joined her Toronto Star compatriots Antonia Z. and Susan Delacourt in starting a blog over there, called Political Decoder. Her introductory blogpost is here. I’ll [...]

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I agree with a couple of my blogging acquaintances - there are other stories worth discussing besides Bernier. It appears from this story by Jim Travers that there are folks inside the civil service not very happy with the Lynch Report which basically claimed it couldn’t find who leaked the Canadian government’s notes questioning [...]

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Now I know it’s all Bernier all the time on the blogs - at least on the Progressive blogosphere and in the media blogs - but I caught something else today that no one seemed to catch or mention: seems like several of the Conservatives were um, a tad embarrassed that they were on the [...]

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Your Maxime Bernier resignation timeline yesterday, and the way the Conservatives handled it:
- Around the middle of the day, when being questioned about these new reports that Maxime’s ex-girlfriend was involved with security at airports, PM Harper utters what may become a famous phrase:
“I don’t take this subject seriously.”
- In QP yesterday afternoon, in [...]

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Debate has been extensive over the past couple of weeks over whether the Liberals and Dion were suicidal over publicly committing to a carbon tax, or whether they were being visionary and the policy would be accepted by the public. A poll just commissioned by the Pembina Institute and reported on in the media over [...]

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Delegates:
Pledged
Super
Total
Needed

Obama
1,660.5
315.5
1,976
49

Clinton
1,499.5
279.5
1,779
246

Remaining
86
201
287

(2,025 delegates needed for victory. Totals updated as of May 25, 11:13 pm)

I know there are still Clinton supporters, even up here, that are still claiming Clinton still has a shot at winning, or even claiming that the remaining Democratic super delegates may yet still change their mind, but the numbers don’t lie. Clinton’s run [...]

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This is a big ruling that just got released that shows while Harper and the Conservatives may be okay with Guantanamo and the fact the process down there breaks international law, the Canadian Supreme Court unanimously begs to differ:
Canadian agents acted illegally when they interrogated Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr and handed that intelligence to [...]

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