British Columbia Finance Minister Colin Hansen has expressed his frustration with Elections BC, after learning the recent government advertising campaign to sell the HST to the people is…
Nimbyists in Massachusetts got a slap in the face this week when Ken Salazar, the U.S. Interior Secretary, approved the country’s first wind farm despite strident complaints that it would…
The episode recounts how Janis was recruited by Dyson Frost’s people two years earlier to spy on the FBI. Olivia has another run-in with the savant Gabriel, whom she later sees in the background of…
Warner Bros. has set July 20, 2010 as the official release date for the follow-up to Christopher Nolan’s wildly successful Batman film, The Dark Knight.
While there have been many rumours…
Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes first hit theatres 30 years ago, in May of 1980. To mark the anniversary of what many fans claim is the best in the franchise, StarWars.com has re-released the…
Althea Manasan, National Post
Even death can’t help Michael Jackson escape rumours about his sexuality. Jason Pfeiffer, the former assistant of the late pop icon’s dermatologist, is claiming that…
When I first moved to Canada, the only thing I knew about the music was Broken Social Scene. I was living in Etobicoke with my girlfriend (and her parents) and had yet to find my way in the city….
It seems a curious strategy to accuse your opponents in a political debate of trying to score political points. Isn’t that the idea of the whole exercise?
But there was Liberal…
I’m intrigued by the idea, as championed by Stephen Harper this week, that abortion “divides” Canadians. It does, certainly, on an emotional level. But considering how vicious and clamorous the…
Here’s what Pat Martin, the NDP MP, had to say about Rahim Jaffer and his bumbling lobbying career on Thursday:
“It seems that if one has good Conservative credentials and knows the secret…
Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has clearly delivered a challenge to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
As you can read elsewhere on the new and improved National Post blog, the…
Earlier this week, Parliament’s Lobbying Commissioner was provided with copies of 68 pages of documents, mostly e-mail exchanges, between former MP Rahim Jaffer and various Conservative…
No, this is not a parody.
The United
Nations has elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women,
handing a four-year seat on what is supposed to be an influential human
rights body to a…
Here’s MoneySense magazine identifying Ottawa as Canada’s most liveable city, with Toronto coming in 85th.
Here’s merchants along St. Clair Avenue launching a $100 million lawsuit…
An average day in the nation’s capital
If arguments were
people, John Robson would be
going to prison for murder, and possibly for committing an indignity
to a corpse. In today’s …
Can an Accountability Act really make a government more accountable? Yes, according to the Conservatives, when they introduced this legislation with great fanfare back in 2006. Designed to…
The Ampersand has teamed up with Dose, TV Guide Canada and TV Feeds My Family for our new Survivor Panel. The following panelists will take you through each week of the show:
•…
Lost fans, you want answers to the show’s many, many, many questions.
However, in a new interview with the…
Road trips and indie rock. It’s a good match.
To discuss his role as music advisor for Matt Bissonnette’s latest film, Passenger Side, Mac McCaughan (Superchunk, Portastatic) sat down with the …
The following is a transcript of Rex Murphy’s Point of View commentary from yesterday’s broadcast of The National on CBC Television. Readers can watch Mr. Murphy’s commentary at…
