Weekly roundup: November 28-December 4

Articles

Andrew Coyne: the pundit who won’t be typecast from Ubyssey

Decency alone can’t save Parliament from Maclean’s

Documents show “harperization” of government communications from The Globe and Mail

Toronto fire teams slow from Toronto Star

Why a 2.5% property tax increase is probably no increase at all from The GridTO

A government seeking expert advice? Scandalous! from Ottawa Citizen

Chief Wahoo: Classic, Controversial from Getting Blanked

Memo to Mayor Peter Kelly from the Chronicle Herald

The case for a single Ontario school system from Ottawa Citizen

Castles in the sky from Financial Post

Teacher want Alberta universities to revise handling of Grade 12 marks from Calgary Herald

Van Loan’s defence of dirty tricks debases Tories and degrades democracy from The Globe and Mail

Tweets

https://twitter.com/andrew_leach/status/141359918698594305

Random trivia: In the history of the House of Commons, 27 MPs gave their occupation as "Gentleman".

— Éric Grenier (@308dotcom) November 29, 2011

In writing, you should also eliminate needless uses of the word "also."

— Matthew Might (@mattmight) December 2, 2011

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-12-02T16:47:06.000Z. kady o'malley (@kady). "I never thought I'd hear 'Merry Christmas' used as a heckle," Speaker Scheer remarks. #hw.

The NDP hopefuls have a lot of plans. Or rather, they have plans to make plans. Which is sort of meta and cool but mostly just vague.

— Dan Gardner (@dgardner) December 4, 2011

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