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Category: Federal Politics

Russian Exposure
March 15, 2022March 15, 2022Sandford
Putin, Time’s Up
March 1, 2022March 1, 2022Sandford
The Awesome Weapons of Office
February 17, 2022February 17, 2022Sandford
Slow Boring of Hard Boards
February 11, 2022February 11, 2022Sandford
The Whole World is Watching
February 8, 2022February 8, 2022Sandford
How to Take Back Ottawa
February 5, 2022February 5, 2022Sandford
Candidate Vetting: Then and Now
February 3, 2022February 3, 2022Sandford
The PCP/CPC Caucus under Clark and O’Toole
January 27, 2022January 27, 2022Sandford
A PC Party Platform for Canada in the 80s
January 20, 2022January 20, 2022Sandford
Campaigning with Joe and Maureen
January 10, 2022January 12, 2022Sandford
The Last Thing Toronto Needs Now
January 3, 2022January 3, 2022Sandford
Flora! Deserves The !
November 4, 2021November 5, 2021Sandford
Forward and Backward: Security and Taxes
October 6, 2021October 6, 2021Sandford
Ms. Meng for the Michaels: Why the Timing?
September 28, 2021September 29, 2021Sandford
The Counter-Narratives Prevailed
September 21, 2021September 21, 2021Sandford
Missed Narrative Opportunities
September 20, 2021September 20, 2021Sandford
Explaining My Vote
September 17, 2021September 17, 2021Sandford
Strategic Voting: Left and Right
September 15, 2021September 15, 2021Sandford
Power of the Counter-Narrative
September 13, 2021September 13, 2021Sandford
Compel or Persuade?
September 9, 2021September 9, 2021Sandford
Erin O’Toole: Just an Ordinary Canadian?
September 6, 2021September 7, 2021Sandford
Liberal Death-Wish?
September 2, 2021September 2, 2021Sandford
Trudeau Must Fight Back
August 30, 2021September 1, 2021Sandford
Fight a Pandemic or Fight an Election?
August 25, 2021August 26, 2021Sandford
A Man who Can or A Man with a Plan?
August 19, 2021August 19, 2021Sandford
When (Pierre) Trudeau Dissed Mary Simon
July 9, 2021July 9, 2021Sandford
A Tale of Two Marks
March 1, 2021March 1, 2021Sandford
‘O Canada’ Op-ed: Replying to Critics
February 2, 2021February 2, 2021Sandford
Pushing Against the Glass Ceiling
January 27, 2021January 27, 2021Sandford
Les Rose: My Father’s Violence
December 10, 2020December 10, 2020Sandford
Trump, Reelected, Targets Canada
December 4, 2020December 4, 2020Sandford
Lame Duck Governance
September 20, 2020September 20, 2020Sandford
Canada United, the US in Chaos
July 1, 2020July 1, 2020Sandford
Turn 71, Take Pension, Pay Tax
June 3, 2020June 3, 2020Sandford
Joe, Pierre, and Stephen in Healey’s 1979
May 15, 2020May 16, 2020Sandford
The Covid Vaccine Test
May 4, 2020May 4, 2020Sandford
Covid – 19: Does Governance Matter?
March 21, 2020April 7, 2020Sandford
Trade Ms. Meng for USMCA?
February 2, 2020February 4, 2020Sandford
Just Not Ready Once More
December 9, 2019December 9, 2019Sandford
Pierre Trudeau: In a League of his Own
October 25, 2019October 25, 2019Sandford
YouTube Viewcount Stalemate
October 17, 2019December 7, 2020Sandford
Fairly Quiet on the YouTube Front
October 7, 2019October 27, 2019Sandford
What are the Viewcounts Saying?
October 2, 2019October 27, 2019Sandford
The First Federal Election Ads: Guilt by Association
September 5, 2019October 5, 2019Sandford
Jody Wilson-Raybould: The Seventh Federal Party Leader
April 9, 2019October 5, 2019Sandford
Parks Canada’s Soft Power: Pacific Rim
August 15, 2018October 5, 2019Sandford
Let Her Be Canada’s Last Monarch
December 25, 2016October 5, 2019Sandford
Innovation: What a Minister Says, What the Media Write
December 18, 2016October 5, 2019Sandford
Trudeau and Poloz: On the Same Page?
January 21, 2016October 5, 2019Sandford
Why Justin Trudeau Will be Prime Minister by Remembrance Day
October 16, 2015October 5, 2019Sandford
A Second Chance to Get It Right
September 10, 2015October 5, 2019Sandford
What Election? Business as Usual on Canada.ca
September 7, 2015October 5, 2019Sandford
(The Harper Government’s) Money Can’t Buy My Vote
August 27, 2015October 5, 2019Sandford
Stephen Harper and the Politics of Lying
August 20, 2015October 5, 2019Sandford
Kenneth Courtis on the Harper Government’s Economic Mismanagement
August 12, 2015October 5, 2019Sandford
Public Management and/or Political Messaging
April 28, 2015October 5, 2019Sandford
Julian Fantino: A Liability in Veterans Affairs but an Asset in Vaughan?
January 7, 2015October 5, 2019Sandford
The Liberals Strike Back … Finally
April 25, 2013October 5, 2019Sandford
If He Says You’re Fat, You Say He’s Bald
April 23, 2013October 5, 2019Sandford
Canada’s Government Advertising Addiction
January 5, 2013October 5, 2019Sandford
The Sovereigntists Meet the Bond Vigilantes
August 29, 2012October 5, 2019Sandford
Responding to the Bob Rae Attack Ads: A Teachable Moment?
April 18, 2012October 5, 2019Sandford
The Consequences of Speaking Truth to Power
February 23, 2012October 5, 2019Sandford
Why a Great Self-financed Park is an Absurdity
October 30, 2011October 5, 2019Sandford
Why the Canadian Air and Space Museum Should be Saved
October 23, 2011October 5, 2019Sandford
Canada’s Culture War
July 3, 2011October 5, 2019Sandford
The Narratives that Prevailed (and those that didn’t)
May 6, 2011October 5, 2019Sandford
Teflon Jack’s Narrative
April 25, 2011October 5, 2019Sandford
The Impatient Supply Sider or the Deliberative Democrat?
April 13, 2011October 5, 2019Sandford
Michael Ignatieff: Patriotic Story-teller or Opportunistic Visitor?
April 4, 2011October 5, 2019Sandford
Heroic Harper or Devious Stephen?
March 28, 2011October 5, 2019Sandford
If he says you’re fat, you say he’s bald
March 12, 2011October 5, 2019Sandford
The Narrative Model Applied to Federal Politics
March 7, 2011October 5, 2019Sandford
Do the Nation’s Media Have Any Place in the Bedrooms of its Politicians?
January 7, 2011December 8, 2020Sandford
Why the Silence from Mr. Harper?
July 31, 2010October 5, 2019Sandford
Statistics Canada: The Administrative Will or the Political Won
July 22, 2010October 5, 2019Sandford
The Census Long Form: Different Messages from Politicians and Public Servants
July 21, 2010October 5, 2019Sandford
The Canada Revenue Agency: A Hotbed of Innovation?
January 21, 2010October 5, 2019Sandford
Two Winning Economic Stimulus Projects
November 11, 2009October 5, 2019Sandford
Where Stimulus Packages Come From
February 19, 2009October 5, 2019Sandford
Talk Politics: Honouring Bruce Doern
November 13, 2008December 8, 2020Sandford
The Election Online: An Overnight Analysis
October 15, 2008October 5, 2019Sandford
The Campaign Promise that Must be Broken
October 9, 2008October 5, 2019Sandford

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