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
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
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
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.
Parliament resumes with a tribute and a glimpse of future debate
Parliament resumes -- without Jack Layton.
