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Co-operating reluctantly with the inevitable, members of Parliament have discovered that it would, after all, be "in the public interest" to let Auditor-General Sheila Fraser know how they spend $580-some million of tax money on the operation of the...
 
 
 
Barack Obama's strange Oval Office speech Tuesday night was strong on "trust me" sincerity but short on specifics. And no wonder. Just as the full might of the United States government is impotent in the face of a broken pipe under the Gulf of Mexico...
 
 
 
The RCMP have been in a lot of hot water in recent years: the Maher Arar case, the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver airport, the shooting death of Ian Bush in British Columbia, an internal pension scandal, and more.
 
 
 
 
 
DON MACPHERSON

Mario Dumont of the left

When Amir Khadir chucked a shoe at a photographof GeorgeW. Bush in a January 2009...

 
HENRY AUBIN

Quebec makes a deal with the devil for gas profits

Is the Charest government striking a Faustian bargain with the fossil-fuel industry...

 
 
 
 

Metropolitan News

Andy Riga takes an offbeat look at Montreal, beyond the headlines.

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On Two Wheels

Ben Stewart-Smith tracks the ups and downs of biking in Montreal.

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Open Court

Tennis blogger Stephanie Myles serves up what's happening on and off the court.

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Don Martin

There's something about Peter

OTTAWA - There's something about Peter MacKay - the five-term, broken-nosed, rugby-playing, 44-year-...

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VITO PILIECI

Time to Google 'privacy'

For a company that touts the motto "don't be evil" one has to wonder how Google Inc. manages to get...

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Peggy Curran

McGill principal takes Quebec to task for bloated bureaucracy, civil service

It was a bit like watching a heavyweight champion toying with a wounded featherweight -a gentle, but decisive, one-two punch.