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Does prorogation even matter?
Globe readers leave their audio views on the Parliamentary pause
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Quebec promotes oil-sands opportunities
Ad on departmental website hails Alberta's business potential even as Charest government paints energy-rich province as environmental villain
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Jane Taber
It's Games on for Harper's youngest cabinet minister
'Nobody is talking politics and everybody is talking Canada' - but James Moore is questioning opposition Olympic spirit
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Gerald Caplan
The grinch steals the Games
Recent chipping away at cherished Canadian ideals seems to be – athletes aside – what the Olympics are really about
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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
Ottawa Notebook
What the Liberals want
In a letter to the Prime Minister, Michael Ignatieff asks Stephen Harper to co-operate on striking a special committee to blunt his power to prorogue
Ottawa Notebook
Smitherman ‘intensely thrilled' to be approved for adoption
The openly gay candidate for Mayor of Toronto and his spouse, Christopher Peloso, are adopting a 14-month-old boy from Toronto
Harper travelling to Haiti
Prime Minister set to visit Jacmel, the focus of Canadian aid efforts that have been a major cause for Conservative government
Jane Taber
Harper talks trade, security with U.S. Vice-President Biden
Leaders discuss bilateral issues in advance of summer’s G8, G20 summits
Ignatieff wades into PMO v. banker fight
It's no way to run a country, Liberal Leader says, when politicians can't seek advice from experts
Exports
Controversy brews over asbestos deaths in Mexico
Canada exports majority of dangerous mineral to developing countries
Gloria Galloway
Risky products may be escaping controls: Health Canada audit
Bureau charged with determining safety and handling of chemicals and organisms struggles to meet deadlines
- Global security to top agenda of G8 foreign ministers
- G20 venue puts Toronto, Ottawa at loggerheads
- Canadian aid groups told to keep quiet on policy issues
- Mass resignations deepen Tory riding rift
- Cannon wades in to rights-agency mess
- Stephen Harper delivers paen to patriotism in B.C. Legislature
- Canada presses China on Iran nuclear file
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Silver-Powers
One Liberal, one Tory, two perspectives on the latest in Canadian politics
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Douglas Bell
Douglas Bell critiques the movers and shakers in Canadian politics
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Spector Vision
Norman Spector blogs on politics, government and the mass media
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Brian Topp
The NDP strategist takes a critical eye to Canadian politics
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Andrew Steele
A look at the underlying trends and backroom strategies driving contemporary politics
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Adam Radwanski
Out of Queen's Park, what's making news in federal and provincial politics
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Bruce Anderson
Strategic consultant writes about contemporary politics and broader social trends
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Blogolitics
A keen, visual take on the news
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Alberta Watch
Our Alberta bureau blogs on political happenings in Wildrose Country
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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
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Where are the female politicians?
The Globe's Janet McFarland took your questions
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Interactive timeline
Tracking the detainee transfers
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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.
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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
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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
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