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Does prorogation even matter?

Globe readers leave their audio views on the Parliamentary pause

Editorial cartoon by Brian Gable
Morning buzz

Budget should target 'fat-cat Ottawa,' poll suggests

Spending cuts preferred route to deficit reduction, EKOS finds - plus Michael Ignatieff's first Olympic impressions of Vancouver

Former Joe Clark cabinet minister Heward Grafftey announces his leadership for the Progressive Conservative Party at a news conference in Ottawa on Aug. 14, 2002.
Obituary

‘Bad boy of Montreal's blue bloods' passes away

Former Tory MP Heward Grafftey, who brought common sense to politics, dies in hospital

Quebec Premier Jean Charest waves after he unveiled his cabinet at the National Assembly in Quebec City on Dec. 18, 2008.
Norman Spector

Quebec’s climate change hypocrisy

Federalists should keep a close eye on what’s actually going on under Jean Charest's watch

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz tastes a dish featuring Haskap berry prepared by chef Michael Smith at an Olympic breakfast in Vancouver on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2010.
Vancouver Notebook

Agriculture Minister pushes Canadian flavour

Giant clams and antioxidant berries on display as Gerry Ritz teams up with chef Michael Smith at Olympic breakfast

NDP Leader Jack Layton and Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe shake hands as then-Liberal leader Stephane Dion looks on after signing a coalition agreement on Dec. 1, 2008.

Book review

Bye-bye coalitions?

Brian Topp's insider account of negotiating the 2008 deal between the Liberals, NDP and Bloc is full of surprises and lessons for the next time around

Canadian aid groups told to keep quiet on policy issues

Non-governmental organizations say they're receiving veiled warnings about positions that clash with Ottawa's

TD chief caught in deficit crossfire

Ignatieff demands Harper apologize for criticism of CEO's views on raising taxes

Mass resignations deepen Tory riding rift

Twenty Calgary West board members quit over party decision to seize control of local group and protect MP Rob Anders from nomination battle

Cannon wades in to rights-agency mess

Foreign Affairs Minister pledges unspecified action to stabilize fractured Montreal-based Rights and Democracy

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Norman Spector
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Brian Topp, shown in August of 2009
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Globe and Mail blogger Dan Cook
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Earlier discussion
What are prorogation's consequences?

Jane Taber and Norman Spector took questions on Harper's decision to shut down Parliament

Editorial cartoon by Brian Gable
Where are the female politicians?

The Globe's Janet McFarland took your questions

Helena Guergis, Canada's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Trade and Sport, listens to Nicaragua's President Ortega during meeting in Managua.
Interactive timeline
Tracking the detainee transfers

Video
PM sings Beatles classic

Stephen Harper makes a surprise appearance at the National Arts Centre gala and sings With a Little Help from My Friends.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper performs 'With A Little Help From My Friends' at the 2009 National Arts Centre Gala. (PMO photo by Deb Ransom)
In pictures
Setting politics aside
for quake relief

Cabinet ministers, MPs and political staffers of all stripes fill a Parliament Hill ballroom to raise nearly $32,500 for Haiti

NDP MP John Rafferty (Thunder Bay-Rainy River) shares a laugh with Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq.
Images of Remembrance

Canadians from coast to coast pay tribute to those who fought and died in conflicts from the First World War to Afghanistan

A young girl places her poppy on the cenotaph after a Remembrance Day ceremony at a military cemetery in Calgary