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Who listens to the Official Opposition?

Canadian House of Commons. Photo: scazon/Flickr
The clash between government and opposition in Canada's parliament provides for a continual spectacle. Except, is anybody watching?

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A New Year's leadership wish list for 2012

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A great big, blue-sky-dreaming, New Year's wish list for 2012: a better prime minister.

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Hill Dispatches: The 2012 policy agenda, part one

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As we begin a New Year it is as good a time as any to contemplate the spectres for our time -- the spectres of growing inequality and of unsustainable development.

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Over 200 arrested at Ottawa tar sands protest

An RCMP officer speaks to a protester in Ottawa on Monday, Sept. 26, 2011 at the anti-tar sands protest. Photo: Marco Vigliotti

Over 200 protesters objecting to the federal government's enthusiastic support for Alberta's tar sands and the Keystone pipeline XL were arrested Monday morning as they attempted to stage a sit-in in the House of Commons.

The protesters wanted the chance to air their grievances with the environmentally reckless policies of the Harper-led Conservatives inside Parliament but were blocked from entering by fenced barricades and over 50 RCMP officers.

The protesters were encouraged by hundreds of boisterous supporters as they passed the media scrum and calmly hopped over police barricades.

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Parliament resumes with a tribute and a glimpse of future debate

Flowers grace Jack Layton's desk in parliament shortly after the NDP leader's death in August.
Parliament resumes -- without Jack Layton.

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Genetic engineering in Canada to get full political debate

For Immediate Release

Ottawa. Thursday, December 2, 2010 - In a surprise move yesterday evening in the House of Commons, the New Democratic Party secured an extended debate, of up to five hours, on the highly controversial Bill C-474 on genetically engineered (GE) crops, currently in third reading.

"We are very excited that, for the first time, all members of parliament will have the chance to participate in a substantive debate on genetic engineering," said Lucy Sharratt, co-ordinator of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network. "In our 15 year history with this technology, a five-hour debate in the House of Commons on genetic engineering is unprecedented."

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Anti-Semitism and free speech: In Parliament this weekend

Expanding the definition to include criticism of Israel.

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Rude and crude, eschewed

The boorish behaviour now so typical in Parliament has contributed greatly to Canadians' disenchantment with federal politics. It's not surprising that we're regularly asked what can be done to make the House of Commons more serious and relevant to our lives.

But it ought to be possible, even if it's not happening now, for Parliament to do what it's meant to do: to act as the country's main public forum of debate, reflecting the diversity of Canadians as indicated by the way they vote, and to do this with both passion and civility.

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Attack on the long-gun registry: An interview with Wendy Cukier

Wendy Cukier is the president of the Coalition for Gun Control (CGC) and a professor at Ryerson University in Toronto. The CGC is an alliance of more than 300 policing, public safety and violence prevention organizations including the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, Canadian Public Health Association, and YWCA of Canada. The coalition was founded after the Montreal Massacre in 1989, when 14 women were shot to death and 13 more were injured at the École Polytechnique de Montréal.

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