Le Devoir

The Ontario budget gave the paper a chance to start getting its coverage right. No luck.

Wells: Bouchard cut spending far more drastically than Couillard, so Le Devoir has forgotten he ever existed

Diane Finley is going to have a difficult afternoon

CBC has an interesting story (from its French service Radio-Canada) on the Imperial Oil Foundation’s involvement in the Canada Science and Technology Museum’s current exhibition “Energy: Power to Choose.”

Folks from Le Devoir were on the Hill with MPs to mark the Quebec paper’s

Le Devoir’s young political reporter, recently departed from Ottawa (no fool he) to ply his trade back home in Montreal, turns in easily the best tick-tock of the events leading up to Denis Coderre’s unfortunate televised auto da fé of the other day. This sort of access reporting is obviously open to the obvious caveats — how do we know who his sources were? But couldn’t some of them be (gasp) (hand across brow) self-interested? — but it builds a plausible case that this entire business began as a simple case of crossed wires.

Maxime Bernier responds to today’s Le Devoir report.

Ignatieff says he won’t try to trigger an election this week if he gets some answers

A cabinet shuffle tomorrow? Really?

The Chinese wall between what Stephen Harper cares about (loose documents) and what he claims not to care about (other loose objects) is an artificial construct, as we pointed out here 10 days ago, in a post that pointed to this article in Le Devoir. Because that article is now over the subscriber wall, here are pertinent points:

Le Devoir reports that Prime Minister “none of my business” Harper called Maxime Bernier in to complain, among other things, about the minister’s girlfriend. Last October. He’s just turning into a gossipy busy-body, isn’t he.

We tease Le Devoir because we love it. You had to read that paper’s Alec Castonguay this morning to begin to understand the true extent of the Harper government’s clapped-together, carefully-obscured, clumsily-exercised plan to rebuild the Roman legions on Canadian soil. I refer, of course, to the 20-year, $30-billion defence plan, which the Globe is calling a $50-billion defence plan and which Le Devoir explains — I believe credibly— is actually a $96-billion defence plan. Details after the jump.