Jasmine MacDonnell
Colbert gets truthy, TIFF tiff, wrong target
Newsmakers of the week
‘Am I going to get blamed for this?’
The Chronicle-Herald discloses what Lisa Raitt had to say about Jim Prentice.
What else is there?
One of the more intriguing bits from Stephen Maher’s affidavit.
Scavenger hunt
Canadian Press gets into the excruciating details of how a Halifax paper came into possession of that potentially earth-shattering tape.
Lisa Raitt’s martini party
Photos from happier days: Raitt, MacDonnell have a casual gals’ night
Politics and the Pen plus the Cabinet Ministers hairdresser
The Writers’ Trust of Canada handed out their annual $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize honouring political writing excellence to James Orbinski for An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century at the annual Politics and the Pen gala dinner in the Fairmont Château Laurier ballroom. Politics and the Pen is one of Ottawa’s A-list events and brings out top politicians, including Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt and Transport Minister John Baird.