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Before we return to the saga of Ontario politics, I must take a moment to publicly flog myself and eat a crow sandwich for declaring Donald Trump’s campaign dead a month ago.  I was super wrong.  I was wrong wrongiddy wrong wrong wrongo wrong.
Proceeding under the usually fairly safe assumption that campaigns matter above all, and allowing for the fact that without a visible ground game, the support of the party he had been nominated for, or regular access to his Twitter account, I believed...

Welcome to parliament, new senators!  I’m sure there’s a lot you’re taking in over a really short period of time, but I figured I’d give you a few pieces of advice from someone who has been a keen Senate observer for the better part of a decade, and...

In a Federal Court judgment released Thursday, Justice Robert Barnes ruled that the government did not infringe on the start-up and strict-paywall online news outlet Blacklock’s Reporter’s copyright when a Finance Canada employee obtained—without request...

It’s less of a surprise than it should be that police here in Quebec were spying on reporters.  The police forces here, at the city and provincial level, have always seemed to operate with more than a little disdain for the press.
So, when it was announced columnist Patrick Legacé of La Presse had Montreal police tracking who he was calling and texting, and keeping tabs on of his whereabouts with GPS, there was little doubt he was the not only one being watched.  We know now at...