How do this week’s free speech stories tie together?
Why is the United States supporting the Syrian rebels?
How important is MP Claude Patry’s jump to the Bloc from the NDP?
How did the beleaguered Senate’s situation change this week?
Categories: Capital Read
Our View from the Hill … on free speech, Syria, Claude Patry and the Senate
From Macleans
Blog Central
The line from Harper’s office on Wright and Duffy
John Geddes on the Tories’ efforts at damage control
Canada
The world discovers Rob Ford: ‘Perspective … it ain’t good’
Toronto Mayor makes headlines from the BBC to Vanity Fair
Beyond The Commons
The week of Mike Duffy
Attempting to make sense of the matter of the housing allowance
Business
The fiscal outlook for B.C.’s re-elected Liberals
Whatever happens next, they’re starting out from a good place, writes Kevin Milligan
Canada
Why full-day kindergarten doesn’t work
Charlie Gillis on the munchkin invasion
Brian D. Johnson Unscreened
Red carpet rain and great balls of fire
From Gatsby’s glamour to Mexico’s drug wars, Brian D. Johnson on Cannes’ contrasts
