http://www2.macleans.ca Canada's only national weekly current affairs magazine. Sat, 25 May 2013 18:16:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/24/infographic-a-senategate-cheat-sheet/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/24/infographic-a-senategate-cheat-sheet/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 20:09:17 +0000 Amanda Shendruk http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=387752 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/24/infographic-a-senategate-cheat-sheet/feed/ 0 Having trouble keeping up? There's a graph for that http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/23/the-paper-chase/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/23/the-paper-chase/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 19:37:13 +0000 Aaron Wherry http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=387197 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/23/the-paper-chase/feed/ 0 The latest twists in the tale of a Senate in crisis http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/19/the-unbelievable-matter-of-mike-duffy-and-nigel-wright/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/19/the-unbelievable-matter-of-mike-duffy-and-nigel-wright/#comments Sun, 19 May 2013 16:07:23 +0000 Aaron Wherry http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=385417 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/19/the-unbelievable-matter-of-mike-duffy-and-nigel-wright/feed/ 0 Has the Harper government come across something it can't easily get away with? http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/18/in-this-new-crisis-the-faint-echo-of-a-previous-crisis/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/18/in-this-new-crisis-the-faint-echo-of-a-previous-crisis/#comments Sat, 18 May 2013 19:12:10 +0000 Aaron Wherry http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=385264 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/18/in-this-new-crisis-the-faint-echo-of-a-previous-crisis/feed/ 0 From the coalition crisis of 2008 to the Senate crisis of 2013 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/17/the-week-of-mike-duffy/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/17/the-week-of-mike-duffy/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 23:35:51 +0000 Aaron Wherry http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=385144 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/17/the-week-of-mike-duffy/feed/ 0 Attempting to make sense of the matter of the housing allowance http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/17/pamela-wallin-quits-the-conservative-caucus/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/17/pamela-wallin-quits-the-conservative-caucus/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 21:51:03 +0000 Aaron Wherry http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=385180 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/17/pamela-wallin-quits-the-conservative-caucus/feed/ 0 Another senator departs the government caucus http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/06/the-commons-what-if-we-all-just-refused-to-be-appointed-to-the-senate/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/06/the-commons-what-if-we-all-just-refused-to-be-appointed-to-the-senate/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:16:17 +0000 Aaron Wherry http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=357641 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/06/the-commons-what-if-we-all-just-refused-to-be-appointed-to-the-senate/feed/ 0 Somewhere a mariachi band plays a plaintive tune http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/28/do-you-know-where-your-senator-lives-does-it-matter/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/28/do-you-know-where-your-senator-lives-does-it-matter/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 01:16:50 +0000 Aaron Wherry http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=355565 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/28/do-you-know-where-your-senator-lives-does-it-matter/feed/ 0 The Senate is subject to existential questions http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/27/senator-patterson-is-late-for-a-meeting/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/27/senator-patterson-is-late-for-a-meeting/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:00:06 +0000 Aaron Wherry http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=354577 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/27/senator-patterson-is-late-for-a-meeting/feed/ 0 And the Prime Minister didn't look that closely at Senator Wallin's expenses http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/26/do-you-know-how-much-of-your-money-your-senators-have-paid-back/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/26/do-you-know-how-much-of-your-money-your-senators-have-paid-back/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:18:42 +0000 Aaron Wherry http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=354177 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/26/do-you-know-how-much-of-your-money-your-senators-have-paid-back/feed/ 0 Questions abound about who owes what http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/25/the-commons-senators-need-not-fear-unemployment/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/25/the-commons-senators-need-not-fear-unemployment/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:40:06 +0000 Aaron Wherry http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=354012 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/25/the-commons-senators-need-not-fear-unemployment/feed/ 0 Diane Finley explains the difference between a quota and a target http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/14/the-commons-how-much-would-you-pay-to-send-pamela-wallin-to-moose-jaw/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/14/the-commons-how-much-would-you-pay-to-send-pamela-wallin-to-moose-jaw/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:09:16 +0000 Aaron Wherry http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=350955 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/14/the-commons-how-much-would-you-pay-to-send-pamela-wallin-to-moose-jaw/feed/ 0 The public audit of the senator's expenses continues http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/13/the-commons-and-so-stephen-harper-finds-himself-having-to-defend-unelected-senators/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/13/the-commons-and-so-stephen-harper-finds-himself-having-to-defend-unelected-senators/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:05:37 +0000 Aaron Wherry http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=350290 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/13/the-commons-and-so-stephen-harper-finds-himself-having-to-defend-unelected-senators/feed/ 0 Oh for the bygone simplicity of Senate reform http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/04/26/25000-shaughnessy-cohen-prize-for-political-writing-goes-to-richard-gwyn/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/04/26/25000-shaughnessy-cohen-prize-for-political-writing-goes-to-richard-gwyn/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:54:48 +0000 Mitchel Raphael http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=255283 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/04/26/25000-shaughnessy-cohen-prize-for-political-writing-goes-to-richard-gwyn/feed/ 0 Columnist Richard Gwyn took home the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for... http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/10/24/celebrating-women-in-canadian-military-forces/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/10/24/celebrating-women-in-canadian-military-forces/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:54:38 +0000 Mitchel Raphael http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=221434 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/10/24/celebrating-women-in-canadian-military-forces/feed/ 12 Rona Ambrose, Minister for Status of Women, hosted a reception in Senate Speaker Noël... http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/06/10/the-commons-humble-brag/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/06/10/the-commons-humble-brag/#comments Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:14:18 +0000 Erica Alini http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=196885 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/06/10/the-commons-humble-brag/feed/ 18 Across the street and behind a metal barricade, a young man in a bike... http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/07/08/the-first-wives-club-plays-safe/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/07/08/the-first-wives-club-plays-safe/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:00:06 +0000 Anne Kingston http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=136402 http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/07/08/the-first-wives-club-plays-safe/feed/ 0 The leaders’ spouses avoided protesters—and any whiff of substance http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/03/06/can-sarah-win-over-albertans-alaska/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/03/06/can-sarah-win-over-albertans-alaska/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:08:33 +0000 Colby Cosh http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=114348 http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/03/06/can-sarah-win-over-albertans-alaska/feed/ 167 Colby Cosh on how Palin handled her first Canadian audience http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/25/advice-that-wont-be-taken/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/25/advice-that-wont-be-taken/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:05:11 +0000 Colby Cosh http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=111579 http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/25/advice-that-wont-be-taken/feed/ 54 The Alberta Liberals will certainly boycott the province’s fall Senate election, as they have... http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/09/03/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/09/03/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:00:20 +0000 macleans.ca http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=79070 http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/09/03/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/feed/ 9 What do famous Canadians—including Harper, Layton and Crosby—do when it gets hot? They don their shorts and hit the dock. http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/08/27/damn-liberal-media/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/08/27/damn-liberal-media/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:51:40 +0000 Aaron Wherry http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=78002 http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/08/27/damn-liberal-media/feed/ 45 Leave! Stephen! Harper! Alone!... http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/07/02/senators-gone-sort-of-wild/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/07/02/senators-gone-sort-of-wild/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:58:30 +0000 Aaron Wherry http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=68527 http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/07/02/senators-gone-sort-of-wild/feed/ 40 CBC looks into the case of a Senate committee run amok. More somewhat entertaining... http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/05/13/ezra-levant%e2%80%99s-big-beef-and-new-book/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/05/13/ezra-levant%e2%80%99s-big-beef-and-new-book/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 13:00:30 +0000 Mitchel Raphael http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=56407 http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/05/13/ezra-levant%e2%80%99s-big-beef-and-new-book/feed/ 72 Ezra Levant held the Ottawa launch of his new book, Shakedown: How Our Government... http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/03/26/newsmakers-arrivals/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/03/26/newsmakers-arrivals/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:00:44 +0000 Lianne George http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=45227 http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/03/26/newsmakers-arrivals/feed/ 0 ... http://www2.macleans.ca/2008/04/07/chatelaine/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2008/04/07/chatelaine/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:09:06 +0000 Jeff Harris http://macleans.wordpress.com/?p=1681 http://www2.macleans.ca/2008/04/07/chatelaine/feed/ 0 Jeff Harris goes behind the scenes