Members of the Red Chamber accustomed to public loathing

Abolition was once a half-crazed scheme debated at basement meetings of trade unionists. Now the New Democratic Party proposal is embraced as conventional wisdom by much of the political and media elite.

If you were 140 years old and didn't have any friends, you probably deserved it. In questioning whether to abolish the Senate, it's striking how few friends the Upper House has. There it stands, all alone atop a windswept bluff on the Ottawa River, with only velvet curtains and an $81,844,963 ann...

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