Former PM Brian Mulroney says he knows how to fix the Senate: Take power away...
Former prime minister Brian Mulroney took his turn Wednesday night to criticize the Senate, calling it dysfunctional and badly in need of reform — but he also offered solutions. Mulroney is one of many...
View ArticleTom McIntosh: Bringing the provinces into the Senate
As the trial of Senator Mike Duffy continues and as the Senate reels from the revelations of a broader pattern of misuse of public funds by its members, Canadians will eventually have to confront the...
View ArticleLetters: Time to show senators the door
Re: Make The Senate An Election Issue, Andrew Coyne, June 9. Somehow, some day soon, taxpaying Canadians must gather the authority to say to their senators, “Okay guys, the gig’s up.” For nearly 150...
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Senators fire back at auditor general’s ‘scurrilous’ and ‘defamatory’ report...
A number of senators say they have been unfairly persecuted in a sweeping 116-page audit report on expense claims. Auditor General Michael Ferguson’s report released Tuesday found a “pervasive lack of...
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North Korea may be starving. Um, yeah … we’ll get back to you. And Thursday’s...
1. Greece gets bankruptcy, and bikers too Greg Pender/Postmedia This is just what Greece needs — crazy Canadian bikers beating up on people: According to the Vancouver Sun, dozens of Canadian Hells...
View ArticleNational Post View: The Senate’s pocket veto
By finally passing the Reform Act — a private member’s bill intended to make the House of Commons more democratic — the Senate has averted a full-blown constitutional crisis. But the Reform Act was...
View ArticleSenate’s last job before summer: Pass or kill a contentious bill that would...
OTTAWA — A final vote on a contentious union finance disclosure bill will likely be the last act of senators before they leave for their summer break. The government used its majority in the Senate to...
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Senate passes controversial union financing bill before rising for the summer
OTTAWA — Three bills passed by the House of Commons had their fates decided by the Senate on the eve of Canada Day — one was pushed through by the Conservative majority, while the other two languished...
View ArticleNational Post View: Senate defence committee has some good recommendations,...
The Senate committee on national security and defence’s new report, “Countering the Terrorist Threat in Canada,” makes 25 recommendations, many of which are agreeable, necessary, and overdue. In...
View ArticleDaniel Lang: The Senate did not call for imams to be ‘licensed.’ Nor were we...
Contrary to the suggestion made in a recent National Post editorial, the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence did not propose that government intervene to certify or establish a...
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Senator Don Meredith facing ethics probe over allegations that he harassed...
OTTAWA — A former Conservative senator faces a second ethics probe after an investigation into his office unearthed allegations of harassment and bullying, The Canadian Press has learned. The...
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Stephen Harper to join Brad Wall in call for Senate abolition on Friday: source
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall are expected to appear together Friday to call for the abolition of the Senate, according to a source familiar with their plans. Harper...
View ArticleJohn Ivison: Stephen Harper now, at least, has a Senate policy for the election
Stephen Harper unveiled his new policy on the Senate Friday: Death by retirement. The prime minister said he will formalize his de facto moratorium on Senate appointments, which, if the policy takes,...
View ArticleMatt Gurney: I guess the public cares about the Senate scandals after all
Friday’s rumoured announcement by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in company of Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, that the Tories now favour outright abolition of the Senate, raises any number of...
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Canada’s Senate: What Stephen Harper has said, and where the provinces stand...
Here’s where each province stands on Senate reform/abolition: B.C. “Our position is that the Senate should be fixed, or it should be folded. We believe that options for the Senate should be examined,...
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Canadian Senate’s slide into irrelevance: Watchdog role has gradually eroded,...
Canadian senators put on suits and show up to work. They hold question periods. They vote, give speeches, argue and deliver lengthy commemorations to dead colleagues. But while they certainly look busy...
View ArticleLetters: The Senate’s day has passed
Re: The Right Moment For Reform, editorial, July 28. In the 1860s, Britain was understandably leery of purely democratic institutions, given the excesses of American populist democracy and the chaos...
View ArticleSenator Don Meredith included business partner as part of delegation to...
Independent Senator Don Meredith earlier this year led a business delegation to the Caribbean that included a representative of a company he co-owns. Meredith and Toronto Conservative MP Joe Daniel...
View ArticleRex Murphy: Tom Mulcair cannot just wish away the Senate
The Senate is a body that everybody — well, a whole lot of people — wishes would go away, but — due to the fact that it is a creature of the Constitution and we have a profound aversion to attempting...
View ArticleAndrew Coyne: Trudeau facing a Senate conundrum
If you want a preview of what Justin Trudeau’s government might soon have to contend with, have a look at what has just happened in Britain. Earlier this week the House of Lords voted to defeat a...
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