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Akolisa Ufodike, Susanna Ally and Louis Butt: In order to address systemic racism, we must discuss the Conservative Party’s policies on immigration, the economy, education, cultural outreach and data collection

Stephen Maher: The Ontario premier’s bull-in-a-china-shop routine won’t just turn off swing voters, it’s shaking the confidence of his own people

The final panel at the annual gathering of Canadian conservatives was a debate focused around a list of real alternatives to a carbon tax

FESCHUK: Subverting voters won’t be so easy in 2015. Maybe that’s why the PM has been practising hypnosis.

Why that’s not necessarily a bad thing for Harper

Should western leaders have dealt with Gadhafi in the past? Also: why the Tories have pulled ahead in the polls

With no one to yell at, the party has done some useful policy work

For Peter MacKay, the Afghan file is just the latest test of loyalty

***UPDATE: PMO says once you’re in, you’re in. No opting out.

“Whereas the left wing tends to attract bleeding hearts, the right-wing tends to attract jerks. Of course there are all sorts of fancy intellectual reasons why one might want to shrink government, reduce taxes, and curtail entitlement programs. Bu a lot of people support these policies simply because they don’t care about anybody but themselves. They are, in other words, self-interested jerks.”

Motion before the House of Commons: That the House express its full and complete confidence in Elections Canada and the Commissioner of Canada Elections.

Turns out that some books – yes, even books about Canadian politics – can make for a far more interesting read the second time around, particularly if written by an eminently quotable former Conservative insider like Tom Flanagan. Fellow gallery bloggers David Akin and Elizabeth Thompson are posting some of the most noteworthy Flanaganisms, culled from “Harper’s Team”, his warts-and-all memoirs of life as a political operative.