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OTTAWA — There’s little question that the Senate, as lawyer Peter Doody put it, “lifted the curtain” and made available documents it wanted police and the courts to have about suspended P.E.I. Sen. Mike Duffy – that is, the damaging ones – while keeping...

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By Laura Shepherd Bewilderment begat outrage in the blink of an eye this week when conservative Senator Don Plett introduced discriminatory amendments to a Bill intended to outlaw discrimination based on ‘gender identity’. What Happened? Manitoba...

When Erik Spicer was appointed Parliamentary Librarian of Canada in 1960 by prime minister John Diefenbaker, he found an institution shunned by the very parliamentarians it was meant to serve. Loose-lipped librarians would carelessly tip off reporters...

Chris Wattie/Reuters It was at 10:40 p.m. on Monday night, by a vote of 178 to 95, that the Senate was officially granted permission to remain in its current state for another year. With Conservatives and Liberals voting against, an NDP motion that...