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Chris Waddell - Political Columnist
Chris Waddell - Inside Ottawa

Christopher Waddell is the first occupant of the Carty Chair in Business and Financial Journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa. Waddell has a Ph.D. in History from York University and has served as Parliamentary bureau chief for CBC Television news, a senior editor with the Financial Post, a reporter with the Report on Business, and as Ottawa bureau chief, associate editor and national editor for the Globe and Mail. He writes for CBC News Online on topics of interest in Canadian politics.

FEATURE COLUMN:

May 20, 2005
The whole House needs a reality check
"After the past few weeks in Ottawa, does anyone still need to ask why voter turnout is on a steady decline?"


COLUMNS BY CHRIS WADDELL:

February 24, 2005
Goodale's political five-year plan

February 8, 2005
Spending a politically sensitive surplus

December 1, 2004
What Bush didn't say in Ottawa

March 24, 2004
The budget: Squeezing the provinces

February 18, 2004
Open and expeditious inquiring

November 13, 2003
Getting back to governing

October 20, 2003
Alliance-Progressive Conservative merger

February 19, 2003
Spending as a philosophy

December 2, 2002
The Romanow prescription: been there, tried that

November 15, 2002
Ontario residents were living in an electricity pricing dream world

October 28, 2002
Don't bank on financial sector mergers

October 15, 2002
Fundamental change is the price of Kyoto

October 2, 2002
The throne speech: easier said than done

September 6, 2002
Playing politics with Kyoto

August 22, 2002
The pitfalls of a long goodbye

June 24, 2002
Chrétien and Martin

May 31, 2002
Codes of conduct

May 21, 2002
Canada-U.S. relations

May 3, 2002
Keep your eyes on May 13

Apr 22, 2002
The auto industry's Big Three

Apr 4, 2002
Ernie Eves

Mar 21, 2002
Stephen Harper

Mar 15, 2002
The federal government's financial picture

Mar 1, 2002
The Canadian Alliance needs a breakthrough in Ontario




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