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Odds favour Trudeau, even if he loses
As a pugilist he almost can’t win. As a politician he almost can’t lose. When Liberal MP Justin Trudeau laces up the gloves this evening for his much-anticipated and outrageously over-covered...
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Trudeau pulls off stunning upset victory
In a stunning upset, Liberal MP Justin Trudeau brawled his way to a third-round TKO victory over Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau. The referee stopped the fight. This came after several halts...
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Rodger Cuzner spins another yarn: The Boxing Ballad of Justin Trudeau
Rodger Cuzner is a poet — and he knows it. On Monday, it was his turn to write about the parliamentarian turned pugilist who sits behind Cuzner in the House of Commons, a one Justin Trudeau and his...
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Report calls on feds to up funding, awareness to make Paralympians equal to...
The federal government should be funding the development of accessible sports facilities, help cover the cost of equipment and sports program fees for Canadians with disabilities, and celebrate...
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Bitchy Brazeau
Politicians and journalists have long had a scrappy relationship but Senator Patrick Brazeau—last seen in the public eye being pummeled by reedy Parliamentarian sex symbol Justin Trudeau—took it to a...
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We stand corrected
Last week, in the print version of this column, we incorrectly identified award-winning local thespian Jay Brazeau instead of Patrick Brazeau as the Canadian senator recently involved in an online feud...
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Patrick Brazeau
Sen. Patrick Brazeau left political observers scratching their heads Monday night when he suggested on his Twitter account that he plans to resign his Senate seat. In what many took for a late April...
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Remains of suspended senator Patrick Brazeau’s life lie in dirty snow of...
Sometime after the police left and before the reporters arrived at the modest home in suburban Gatineau, Que., someone threw suspended senator Patrick Brazeau’s belongings out the back door onto the...
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Suspended senator Patrick Brazeau pleads not guilty to five more criminal...
OTTAWA — Suspended senator Patrick Brazeau has pleaded not guilty to five additional criminal charges against him after being arrested in a Gatineau home Thursday morning. Brazeau appeared in court...
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Jim Flaherty knew that politicians risk more than most of us
After Jim Flaherty succumbed to a heart attack in his Ottawa condo on Thursday, the political community in Ottawa took time to mourn him. Shocked MPs walked across the aisle in the House of Commons to...
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Suspended senator Patrick Brazeau released on promise to enter rehab (with...
OTTAWA — Suspended senator Patrick Brazeau was released on $5,000 bail Friday afternoon, under the condition that he seek treatment for drug and alcohol abuse. A Quebec court judge gave him three days...
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Some key players in the Senate spending affair
Here are some of the key players in the Senate scandal and the Duffy-Wright affair: Prime Minister Stephen Harper Role: Has said his former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, acted alone when he wrote a...
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What the Supreme Court could do to the Senate next week
OTTAWA — Canada’s top court will clarify the future of Senate reform next week. On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Canada said it will deliver its opinion on the Harper government’s plans for the Senate...
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Some emails in Duffy spending affair reportedly deleted despite orders to...
OTTAWA — Information technology workers in the Privy Council Office appear to have deleted an email account from a key player in the Mike Duffy Senate affair days after being ordered to save every...
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Pam Wallin ‘regrets’ paying back Senate $150,000 over questionable expenses
OTTAWA — If she had it to do all over again, suspended Sen. Pamela Wallin wouldn’t have repaid every dollar of her questionable travel claims. In a radio interview Thursday, Wallin said she was advised...
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A short history of the Senate and the Supreme Court
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling on how the Senate can be reformed or abolished, expected this morning, is a watershed moment in the Conservative government’s eight-year quest to reform...
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Harper ‘disappointed’ with Supreme Court ruling that he can’t reform Senate...
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper is telling Canadians that his decade-old promise of Senate reform is dead “for the time being”— blaming the country’s top court for the mess and suggesting it’s...
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Senate, election reform to be hot topics as Parliament resumes after Easter...
OTTAWA — Members of Parliament are back to work in Ottawa today after a two-week break, and it’s going to be a fast-paced return with Senate and electoral reform both on the hot topics list. The Senate...
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