James Cowan

Senate 2.0: Back to life, but struggling for legitimacy

Evan Solomon on the renaissance of the Senate. (It’s complicated.)

How should the Senate be?

Beset with scandal, the Senate adjourns and passes up two opportunities to assert itself and its purpose. Now what?

Another existential week for the Senate

An increasingly sparse Senate knowingly passes a flawed bill

Bluffer’s guide: What did Justin Trudeau do to the Senate?

This changes everything. Or nothing. Or something.

The sketch: Stephen Harper sits down and Mike Duffy stands up

The senator for PEI scorches the earth and singes the red carpet

A transparency-measuring contest

The rush to be seen being accountable

Maclean’s exclusive: David Tkachuk on Mike Duffy, Nigel Wright and the Senate

An interview with the chair of the internal economy committee

The Senate’s investigation of Mike Duffy is like a game of Clue

The first draft is leaked and fingers are pointed

Is this any way to treat a scandal?

The matter of Nigel Wright and Mike Duffy is pursued in the House and Senate

The Commons: The Real Senators of Parliament Hill

May you never again have to wonder where your senator lives

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Senator Fairbairn and public office

Liberal Senator Jim Munson defends Joyce Fairbairn.

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‘The same respect for their privacy as other Canadians’

A statement from Liberal Senator James Cowan.