Canada and the European Union announced on September 8 that they had completed negotiations on the Canada-EU Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA). Say what?
The most intriguing aspect of last week's announcement of Nova Scotia's fracking ban is how quickly the chattering classes lined up to attack the government for being too craven to stand up to voters.
In the last few weeks, the momentum for Scotland's independence seems to be with the Yes campaign. Some are keen to compare it to Quebec, but why? They couldn't be more different.
The launch Thursday of a partnership between Indigenous Canadians and all Canadians could keep up the unrelenting pressure on Ottawa to make changes in its relationship with Aboriginal peoples.
What's Alberta's new PC leader to do? He can hardly throw the old crowd under the bus at the same time as he's putting some of them back in the cabinet driver's seat.
The NDP's announcement that it will push for a national minimum wage if elected suggests that the party may finally be overcoming its aversion to engaging its federal adversaries on the economy.
If the PCs won't say how many memberships the Jim Prentice campaign gave away, it's fair to conclude that, notwithstanding claims to the contrary, it's Tory business as usual in Alberta.