This Magazine election blogger Dominique Jarry-Shore will be liveblogging the French-language leaders’ debate tonight. And tune in tomorrow when we’ll be doing the same with the English-language debate. The debate starts at 9 pm EST. Dominique’s commentary will appear in the window below. You can also read it at ScribbleLive and even leave comments in […] More »

For all you environmentally conscious types who believe the problems facing our rapidly weakening ecosystem can be tackled by government regulation and coordination, check out this piece from the CBC. It streamlines the deluge of information we have been getting from our federal parties into a simple assessment of what their environmental proposals are, how […] More »

There are two questions no one seems to be asking about the Liberals latest hatchet job on Stephen Harper. When did they discover this undeniable similarity between his 2003 Iraq speech and John Howards’, and how did they discover it? Harper gave the speech five years ago, and while that doesn’t let him off the […] More »

We’re in the dog days of the election. The televised debates won’t start until tonight (French Language: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. EDT on CBC Newsworld, Radio-Canada, CTV Newsnet and TVA and the English language goes tomorrow, 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.EDT) and most parties already released their policy platforms earlier in the week. So […] More »

Back on Friday, Harper announced that if we elected him back into power, he would have Canada stop exporting bitumen to countries that have lower greenhouse-gas emission standards than we do. At first listen, this sounds like a great policy from an environmental perspective-we’ll stop selling our oil to nasty countries that pollute a lot […] More »