We don't have these. We have the Speech from the Throne. We get to be told, not have an explanation given to us. Ours are never remembered as we know to expect them to be diverted from, losing their value faster than an new car driven off the lot.  •  But we Canadians watch these things southern …

How about this? How about on Mondays I post three choices of the Tuesday Group Project topic?  •  Consider the environment as a national issue. For me this just isn't a pull and, given the obvious rehashing of ideas, not one that should excite the imagination. Can a Federal election actually be …

Symmetry. It was all the rage in rejecting the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords. Things had to be the same for me and the same for them or the nation was at risk...or did we just all vote against Mr. Lip Luck, Brian Mulroney? The idea was no province can be treated differently than the next so …

GP = Group Project = collaborative blogging. More here.  •  Last week, the group project was about the general feeling we each have for the Canadian Federal government and expressing the level of interest we have in its future. This week's group project is far more specific. As befits a group …

Like you, I measure out the days in Friday chats now. If I can just make it to Friday chat without emptying another jar of ginger marmalade, I say to my self, I will be OK.  •  The first group project is going well. I think this one is a high level starter discussion. Next I am going to post one …

In an effort to obtain for each of you your "plays well with others" badges, please be advised that the anti-anti-Federalist v. anti-Federalist discussion should hopefully be something of an regular thing from now on. Not debates but projects.

Jay has asked for it so we are going to talk about the new anti-Federalism. If you read that thing in The Star over the weekend that I can't quite find my link for, you will have a sense that Stephen Harper is going to be positioned not just as an anti-Liberal, anti-big-government person but an …