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Who's Running? Deborah Coyne? Or the Mother of Pierre Trudeau's Illegitimate Child

Samuel Getachew | Posted 08.28.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Deborah Coyne, Justin Trudeau, Canada, Brian Mulroney, Liberals, Meech Lake, James Coyne, Liberal Leadership, Andrew Coyne, Canada Politics News
Samuel Getachew

Deborah Coyne is running for the leadership of the (once) mighty Liberals. The media has been less than supportive, describing her as the illegitimate child of Pierre Trudeau. This is doing little to convince her opponents that her resume reads differently than that of a debutante. Would the same sentiment hold if the candidate was man?

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Where's the NDP's Big Promise to Quebec?

David Gratzer | Posted 11.20.2011 | Canada
Read More: Parti Quebecois, Quebec, Ndp, Brian Topp, David Brooks, Meech Lake, Thomas Mulcair, Ed Broadbent, Charlottetown Accord, Quebec Separatism, Ndp Leader, Canada News
David Gratzer

As the NDP looks to reinvent itself as Quebec's party, let's pause for a moment and consider what that actually means: advocacy for La Belle Province, modest flirtation with separatist positions, and bilingual frontrunners (both Mulcair and Topp speak French). And here is what it doesn't involve: a full court effort to outflank separatists.

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How I Learned to Live With the Unelected Senate

Donald Lenihan | Posted 10.11.2011 | Canada
Read More: Triple-E-Senate, Charlottetown Accord, Senate Reform, Canada Senate, Senate Reform Bill, Senate Reform Canada, Meech Lake, Canada News
Donald Lenihan

The wind has gone out of the Triple-E movement's sails. The West no longer wants in because it is in. Quebec's long-standing lock on the political agenda has been broken and Ontario is too busy worrying about tumbling into have-not status to focus on anything else.

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