Durham taxpayers got hosed on Jim Flaherty's watch, but not his friends

The Conservatives’ independent tape expert was a Republican donor and organizer

Cadman tape: What's the motive, means and opportunity?

Coming Thursday: Liberals talk policy. Pictures at 11
From CP's daily look-ahead to news events occurring Thursday comes this interesting entry:QUEBEC _ Federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff delivers the Liberal position on climate change, the environment and the clean economy. (Holds news conference at 12:45 p.m). (11:45 a.m. at Laval University, Cite Universitaire Theatre, Palasis-Prince Pavillon)So be sure to stay tuned for that, should be interested.SPOLIER ALERT!I'm reasonably informed that the Liberal position be in favour of the environment and in favour of the clean economy. Or so my senior sources say.Probably still worth watching the announcement

Maurice Vellacott says the darndest things about abortion
I may need to make this "darndest things" thing a regular feature. Maurice Vellacott, a Conservative MP from Saskatchewan, released a press release last Friday about ho

Tom Flanagan says the darndest things about child pornography
As the Conservatives prepare to hurriedly rush-in legislation on child pornography that absolutely has nothing to do with distracting public attention from the Richard Colvin's testimony and the

Isotopes meet H1N1 in an unsexy confluence of Conservative incompetence
While the politicians and the media may have moved onto other, seemingly sexier crisisis (ed. surely not sexier than cancer?), that doesn't mean the isotope crisis has gone away, or has even been solved by Lisa Raitt and the Conservatives.Indeed, doctors are warning that the (Conservative-mishandled) isotope crisis could be worsened by the (Conservative-mishandled) H1N1 flu pandemic. Provinces and health authorities are facing increased costs due to both H1N1 and the isotope sho

It's not the torture, it's the cover-up
I haven’t followed the ins and outs of Richard Colvin’s testimony and the ensuing Conservative smear campaign super-closely, but I do have some thoughts here on what the issues are and how the opposition should be pursuing them.To me, this isn’t so much about allegations of torture in Afghan prisons, and the program of the Canadian military transferring prisoners to Afghan custody where they could face abuse. When the gov