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MacParland: Stephen Harper’s really bad idea

When it comes to Stephen Harper’s plan to reform the Senate, the Prime Minister isn’t just playing with fire. He’s running through a barn that’s stuffed with dry straw, waving a torch and sending embers off in all directions. It’s difficult to … Continue reading

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MacParland: Harper isn’t changing Canada. He’s demonstrating that Canada has changed

One of the more popular themes of the traditional year-end political assessments has been the end of Canada as we know it due to the determination of the federal Conservatives to do things previous government’s haven’t done. They’re “changing Canada,” … Continue reading

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McParland: The enduring mystery of Canada’s weirdest prime minister

If the world needed further evidence to disprove the notion we need to know as much as possible about our political leaders, it’s between the covers of Allan Levine’s new biography of William Lyon Mackenzie King. While a “tender human … Continue reading

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McParland: Tea Partiers demand an unworkable law for their fantasy world (4)

Given the level of surrealism that surrounds so much of the debt limit argument in the U.S., it seems appropriate that Speaker  John Boehner only managed to win the support of his most intransigent members by conceding on the most … Continue reading

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McParland: Washington continues giant game of chicken over national debt (4)

It may be no coincidence that the Republican party’s willingness to consider a “grand bargain” over the national debt changed suddenly over the weekend, just about the time a poll showed Michele Bachmann had taken the lead as the most … Continue reading

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