As one of Stephen Harper’s biographers, I am taking some prosaic license with today’s OttawaWatch headline. In so doing, I will invoke four other names to put things into context: Lester Pearson, Bob Rae, David Johnston and Ernie Regehr. Much has been written about the fifth anniversary of Stephen Harper’s becoming prime minister. Depending on […]
OttawaWatch: Courting evangelicals
Press gallery colleague Brian Lilley, who provides Parliament Hill news and analysis to the influential CFRB group of radio stations across Canada, has a most interesting blog post, this week. In it, he reveals that Toronto-area Liberal MP John McKay has been designated by his leader, Michael Ignatieff, to help the party reach out to […]
Breaking up the old gang
Some of our older readers will remember a song entitled ‘Those Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine.’ The cheerful dirge points out, in a rather plaintive way, how group relationships can change when a marriage takes place and the parties to the merger become committed to each other more than to […]