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Sun Media’s national bureau chief weighs in on what was missing from coverage of Sun News Network’s demise

The Liberal leader fails to meet his own standard

Stephen Gordon reviews yesterday’s economic update.

Colby Cosh finds out what subsets, modelling assumptions and ‘non-probability samples’ have to do with polling these days

Elections Canada says the majority of the 31,000 complaints it reported two weeks ago originated with online forms.

The Prime Minister responds to the Elections Canada investigation into fraudulent phone calls.

Conservative backbencher Steven Blaney—with the public support of Immigration Minister Jason Kenney—has introduced a bill that would ban so-called “veiled voters.”

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Much-loved CTV journalist Rosemary Thompson leaves the Hill to join the National Arts Centre as their communications director. She held a farewell bash at Ottawa’s watering hole Brixton’s. Below is Thompson with her daughter Jasmine.

 

David Akin bears witness to the original bloodshed.

The Canwest reporter (ah-ha!) finds one federal infrastructure program that disproportionately benefits NDP and Liberal ridings and writes up a poll that extends a few familiar trendlines. It gets worse: the other night at a prominent Ottawa restaurant, I saw David sitting with Conservatives! This proves everything you always suspected about him. Or me. Or something.

“How genteel we Canadian women are. Just like our burka-loving sisters in Afghanistan, we are expected to carry out our work quietly in the shadows, because that is our place in politics and in life. Heaven forbid we should be noticed, feted or written about.”