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Today's letters: A fee can be refunded but a vote can't be recast

Paul Russell wrote 2 hours ago: Re: Trudeau To Repay Speech Fees, June 17. The Conservatives were criticized for trying to impugn Ju … more →

Tags: Letters, Government Secrecy, Justin Trudeau, Soccer, turban, Vladimir Putin

Tony Clement: How — and why — we're modernizing Canada's public service

National Post wrote 3 hours ago: [np_storybar title="Kelly McParland: A new flank beckons in civil service struggle" link="http://ful … more →

Tags: Canada, Civil Service, Politics, Sick leave, Stephen Harper

Chris Selley: The price of Justin Trudeau

Chris Selley wrote 3 hours ago: [np_storybar title="Kelly McParland: Justin Trudeau’s speaking fees suggest expertise is overrated" … more →

Tags: Canada, Justin Trudeau, MP salaries, Politics

Preston Manning: An open letter to the Canadian Senate

National Post wrote 3 hours ago: An increasing number of Canadians are demanding the abolition of the Senate. It is imperative that y … more →

Tags: Canada, Canadian Politics, Oliver Cromwell, Politics, Senate

Andrew Coyne: Tories shouldn't fold to provincial pressure on Jobs Grant

Andrew Coyne wrote 7 hours ago: [np_storybar title="Watch the Job Grant ads" link="#1"] [/np_storybar] Turn on your television this … more →

Tags: Ottawa, Québec

Christie Blatchford: Missing tape was 'handed in' not destroyed Ashely Smith inquest hears

Christie Blatchford wrote 7 hours ago: The jurors at the Ashley Smith coroner’s inquest had just listened to Candace Wade as she was captur … more →

Tags: ashley smith, Candace Wade, Julian Roy

Graeme Hamilton: Applebaum arrest further deepens Montreal's embarrassment on corruption

Graeme Hamilton wrote 8 hours ago: MONTREAL – When Michael Applebaum took office last November as interim mayor of Montreal, nobody had … more →

Tags: Michael Applebaum, montreal, Québec, Quebec politics

John Ivison: Trudeau is seeking absolution without admitting guilt

John Ivison wrote 9 hours ago: It could be that when Justin Trudeau said Senator Mac Harb would be welcome back in the Liberal cauc … more →

Tags: james moore, Justin Trudeau, Mac Harb, Ontario, Ottawa

Kelly McParland: Justin Trudeau's speaking fees suggest expertise is overrated

Kelly McParland wrote 12 hours ago: Justin Trudeau is doing the right thing by returning fees he was paid to speak at fundraising events … more →

Tags: Breaking, Justin Trudeau

Full Pundit: Quebec turban ban was the first skirmish in a larger war

Chris Selley wrote 14 hours ago: WEEKEND ROUNDUP  Quebec’s problems, both real and imagined The Montreal Gazette‘s editor … more →

Tags: Assembly of First Nations, Canadian Politics, Canadian Soccer Association, Full Pundit, Kathleen Wynne, Michael Applebaum, Politics, rob ford, Shawn Atleo

Terry Glavin: No, we're not living in 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'

Special to National Post wrote 15 hours ago: Of all the sideshows to the recent hysterics about the U.S. National Security Agency and its worldwi … more →

Tags: Edward Snowden, National Security Agency, NSA, Politics, prism, united states

Gary Clement’s Canada Day summer Twitter stories

Gary Clement wrote 16 hours ago: Every year Gary Clement, the National Post’s award-winning editorial cartoonist, embarks on special … more →

Tags: Canada Day, Gary Clement, Gary Clement's Summer Stories

Kelly McParland: West's divisions give Obama a weak hand to play against Putin over Syria

Kelly McParland wrote 17 hours ago: Maybe, after weeks of taking it on the chin over his wayward appointees to the Senate, Stephen Harpe … more →

Tags: Bashar Assad, Syria, Syrian civil war, Vladimir Putin

Wade Rowland: A better model for the CBC

National Post wrote 1 day ago: The federal Conservatives are holding a policy conference this month in Calgary, and the future of t … more →

Tags: Canada, CBC, Conservatives, Public broadcasting

Dan Mader: How Harper can win again

National Post wrote 1 day ago: Mid-way through its mandate, the Harper government faces its most serious challenge since the opposi … more →

Tags: Canada, Canadian Politics, Conservatives, Politics, Stephen Harper

Julia Beazley: Don't ignore the real issue on prostitution

National Post wrote 1 day ago: Last week, an article in these pages (Legalize the Sex Trade, Kate Shannon and Sandra Ka Hon Chu, Ju … more →

Tags: Canadian Charter of Rights And Freedoms, Sex workers, social issues, Supreme Court of Canada, Susan Himel, Terry Jean Bedford, Valerie Scott

Today's letters: The government is spying on us. So what?

National Post wrote 1 day ago: Last week, temporary letters editor Jesse Kline asked readers if they are concerned about their priv … more →

Tags: Letters, NSA, Online Privacy, Privacy, Right to Privacy

Michael Den Tandt: How Nelson Mandela overcame immense hardship to become 'the father of a nation'

Michael Den Tandt wrote 1 day ago: It is fitting that, this Father’s Day weekend, a worldwide vigil continued for Nelson Mandela, aged … more →

Tags: Nelson Mandela, South Africa

Jonathan Kay: Quebec's turban panic epitomized its two great collective neuroses: cultural insecurity and separatism

Jonathan Kay wrote 1 day ago: In the grand scheme of world events, the Quebec Soccer Federation’s short-lived ban on turbans may n … more →

Tags: FIFA, Pauline Marois, Quebec Soccer Federation, Religion, Sikhism, Soccer, Sports


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