Thursday of last week, the Governor General issued a proclamation proroguing the Parliament of Canada, thus ending the first session of the 40th Parliament. The political reasons for this action, and the consequences thereof, have been thoroughly discussed in Canadian news media in recent days, but the story is also interesting from a parliamentary procedural [...]

The Canadian news media have been a-flutter these past few days on rumours (and news) that the opposition parties will try to form a coalition government following the failure of an upcoming motion of confidence in the House of Commons. This is very exciting from a political perspective, but there are also some interesting [...]

The Carleton University Students’ Association has managed to attract quite a bit of controversy in the last couple of days, and a lot of it can be blamed on some misunderstandings of parliamentary procedure.
To quickly summarize, CUSA Council adopted a resolution on Monday evening to work to select a new charity for their orientation week, [...]

Today was the first day of the first session of the 40th Parliament of Canada, and the recently-elected members of the House of Commons in turn re-elected Peter Milliken to serve as their Speaker. This election was interesting because it took most of the day to complete, which is much longer than usual, and [...]

In June of 2005, I first considered the idea of helping start a local unit of the National Association of Parliamentarians. I even made mention of it on my blog a couple months later, when I reported passing the NAP membership exam. Now, a solid year and a half later, this idea has [...]