Question time
‘We need more of this kind of leadership and ideas exchanged between the parties’
In lavish detail, Nate Silver explains how Washington might create its own Question Time. Meanwhile, former McCain campaign strategist Mark McKinnon posits that a regular QT might help leach “partisan poison” from Capitol Hill.
Northern matters
We’re in Iqaluit this morning with Stéphane Dion. Fun and informative videoblog to follow. The rest of the day: Churchill, Manitoba, then overnight in Victoria. Since we are up here, it is an excellent time to note that ITK, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, sent questionnaires on Inuit and northern issues to the big federal parties. All five have responded. The answers are collated here, in the order in which they were received.