Note to MPs: free advice on setting up your constituency office(s)

Never lose sight of the prime directive: you want to put in place a team to deal with an inordinate number of complicated files in a manner that leaves the constituent with the view that they were treated in a professional and timely way. Not only will you not win them all—you will not win the vast majority of them and how people feel they have been treated will be very important to your future.

Top 10 mistakes rookie MPs will make

Do not hire your campaign volunteers. Your staff have a serious job to do and doing it well requires a specific skill set. Put this document away and pull it out in a year to see if it makes any more sense.

The parliamentarian’s role in an increasingly fractious arena

Mix unchecked social media platforms and AI algorithms capable of selling fiction as fact, and it’s no surprise that the womb of politics is giving birth to some strange and destructive players.

Let’s get ready to rumble, Conservative race turns into a street fight

Suppose they gave an election and nobody won

Forty-third Parliament of Canada, I hardly knew ya!

Canadians would be much better served by a cooperative, coordinated, and sustained pandemic response

Parliament: the reckoning episode

Hey Parliament, how about we take this online?

For MPs, focus now becomes how to help your constituents through this crisis, and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is suddenly relevant

Liberals about to learn how difficult it is to pursue policy while trying to ensure the trains run on time

So, you’re telling me there’s a chance…

Liberals going to have to make fundamental shifts in their communications and strategy

Next election shaping up to be a much more contested affair than originally predicted

Back in the saddle…

With enemies like this, who needs friends?