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Handling the economy

 
Prime Minister Stephen Harper with his new majority has an opportunity over the next four years to make Canada a much more competitive nation. He should not miss this chance.
 
 

The wrong way, faster

 
The City of Ottawa has a curious method of "fast-tracking" its light-rail project, as it said it would do this week to have passengers aboard it in 2018.
 
 

A water inconvenience

 
So people in Ottawa's south end should have a sense of perspective on the whole issue of the outdoor watering ban because a long pipe from the city to the suburbs has malfunctioned. Yes, residents have paid for this service, but sometimes things go wrong...
 
 
 
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Nancy Peckford
Nancy Peckford

Parliament gets a makeover

Image makeovers - large and small - in the world of politics have a long history: Preston Manning worked...

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Eric Morse
Eric Morse

Why you can't kill Gadhafi, too

Osama bin Laden's killing raises some interesting and disturbing questions about the murky world of ...

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Robert Sibley
Robert Sibley

We must never celebrate death

Osama bin Laden had to be killed, but the jubilation that followed was the kind of mass psychology we...

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Peter Jones
Peter Jones

Bin Laden died years ago

While the world is fixated on the military operation that killed Osama bin Laden, he actually died some...

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Donald Trump is a businessman and presidential hopeful.
David Martin

Donald Trump's inaugural address

My fellow citizens, I come before you today with, what for me, is an unusual feeling...

 
Stephen Harper finally won his long coveted majority.
Gerry Nicholls

Hope springs eternal for Canadian conservatives

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has won his long coveted majority government. So now...

 
Charlotte Whitton: What is wrong today was wrong 70 years ago, Janice Kennedy writes, and it’s a limp defence of Whitton to suggest she didn’t know any better.
Janice Kennedy

Some things are unforgivable

Growing up in Montreal, where Jean Drapeau was our version of municipal flamboyance...

 
Brian Lee Crowley

We have a duty to defend our values

Even in death, mass murderer Osama bin Laden has the power to attract followers ...

 
Susan Riley

In with the new

'This is going to change so many things," veteran New Democrat Libby Davies said...

 
Dan Gardner

Harper could shape the judiciary for a generation

In 2003, an American man who served 14 years on death row was found not guilty of...

 
 
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Elizabeth Payne
Elizabeth Payne

The single-mother voice

There has been plenty of speculation about what influence the new, young MPs (some of them as surprised...

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D_wats
D_wats

Conservative cabinet making

Mathieu Ravignat, the surprise winner in Pontiac, was on the Current this morning saying he'd prefer...

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kate_heartfield
kate_heartfield

Why bad candidates get elected

That was quite the night. There's a lot to talk about over the next few days. For now, I want to...

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