PMO take note: how The Office handled its email problem

Published December 2, 2013

The Prime Minister’s Office has announced that emails from Benjamin Perrin, a former PMO lawyer, have been found! They’re now being turned over to the RCMP as part of the ongoing investigation into bribery, fraud and breach of trust. Incredibly, the bureaucratic wing of the PMO thought the emails, requested by the RCMP as part of a probe […]

Stephen Harper’s Senate residency problem

Published November 28, 2013

What a burn for Stephen Harper. Had the Prime Minister appointed someone from Prince Edward Island to the Senate who actually lived there, the whole Senate mess that threatens to tear down his government would never have materialized. But Harper was looking for a senator who doubled as an ATM to stuff the party coffers […]

Is Wright-Duffy the Grey Cup of Tory scandals?

Published November 25, 2013

It’s hard to get football out of the brain after Sunday’s Grey Cup, so we figured we’d bring football to politics to help make sense of the ever-growing Senate scandal. First, though, congratulations to the Saskatchewan Roughriders, winners of the 2013 Grey Cup. It must have been sweet, after the team’s too-many-men-on the-field penalty that robbed […]

Stephen Harper and the clear, simple, straightforward answer

Published November 21, 2013

If you’re not “very clear” on the ever-changing Senate scandal story from the Conservatives, you can be forgiven. Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff Nigel Wright “acted alone,” the Prime Minister told us, then “very few” knew of the scheme. Now, as new RCMP documents reveal, at least a dozen people, including more than a few […]

Let’s be “very clear” about the Senate scandal

Published November 18, 2013

The House of Commons returned Monday after a break week, and we expect the Senate scandal to come up. There are just too many questions still unanswered. It hasn’t helped that the Conservative government keeps changing its story whenever inconvenient facts surface showing their talking points to be untrue. The general consensus is the Conservatives […]

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PMO take note: how The Office handled its email problem

Stephen Harper’s Senate residency problem

Is Wright-Duffy the Grey Cup of Tory scandals?

Stephen Harper and the clear, simple, straightforward answer

Let’s be “very clear” about the Senate scandal