OTTAWA - Embattled former cabinet minister Bev Oda is saying her final farewells, but isn't offering any explanations for her decision to resign.Oda a...

"The coda to Oda was writ bright with orange juice," writes David Climenhaga on rabble.ca, easily winning the prize for "best editorial headline that sounds like something a film-noir secret agent would whisper on a park bench." Oda's fall represents lots of important things to lots of pundits, in fact, which is very fortunate!

It's unlikely that Bev Oda's successor as the Minister of International Co-operation, Julian Fantino, is addicted to $16 orange juice. More likely is that he'll provide tough leadership when it comes to international aid programs, and will keep the CIDA gang under ideological control.

As MP Bev Oda has chosen to abort not only her ministership, but her political career, the bombshell has informed a troubling narrative on Harper's Conservatives' treatment of womankind. As the Harper government's war on women rages on, anti-woman proposals which have been blighting in the right-wing fringe for years have come to fruition.

Bev Oda, International Co-operation Minister, is leaving her job. Effective at the end of this month, Oda will be stepping down as both the MP for ...