In August, the Globe and Mail's John Ibbitson, surveying the political scene across Canada, noted that at least five provincial elections would take place during the first week of October. And the Globe's bureau chief in Ottawa suggested that Stephen Harper's already-strong position was about to get stronger....

A few weeks ago on this site, I dismissed the argument making the rounds that Prime Minister Stephen Harper had written off Québec after winning a majority government outside the province. Mr. Harper announced that his government would compensate Québec for harmonizing its sales tax with...

Monday, on the front page of The Hill Times--the weekly newspaper of Parliament Hill -- one read this headline:

"PM could be ensconced in power until 2020, say experts"

The 'expert' turned out to be a political columnist.

And, frankly, the scenario appeared far-fetched -- even...

That it was one of Pierre-Karl Péladeau's newspapers, Le Journal de Montreal, which broke the news of Gilles Duceppe's new radio career, would not have come as a total surprise in Québec: Mr. Péladeau's television network, TVA, is a fierce competitor of Radio-Canada for the number one spot in the...