To all our readers,

These few months the Mace has existed have been exhilarating for all of us. We thought the election would be boring, but that it would be fun to each write a few blog posts a week about it. We were pretty sure that we’d all read each others, and that probably [...]

One of the great things about being a journalist is that when the news isn’t interesting you can always just make stuff up. The trick is to hide your fictional alterna-universe musings under the veneer of “analysis,” a category that lets you ditch all usual standards of evidence and confirmability in favor of the more Colbertian barometer of [...]

To call the Canadian Senate an anachronism is a polite understatement, to say the least. As evidence, one need look no further than the hefty $4,000 of property the Constitution obliges its wealthy and privileged members to hold, or the fact that its original duties included the one-by-one approval of divorces. It’s also a remarkably regressive institution, even when viewed in [...]

Brigitte DePape’s little stunt was notable on several fronts, not the least of which was highlighting the hilariously unjustified cloud of narcissism in which so many of this country’s college graduates carry themselves. The extraordinarily lame and uncreative nature of her sad little “STOP HARPER” sign, of which she was so infinitely proud, contrasts hugely with the vastly wittier, sharper, and much more 

The uncontroversial rise of the incredibly controversial Bob Rae to leadership of the Liberal Party is one of the more bizarre episodes of recent Canadian political history, and one I’ve already had a bit of fun analyzing on my other blog. For the purposes of this site, however, it may be worthwhile to deconstruct exactly [...]

Here’s a quick trivia question. Which party is more right-wing: The Conservatives, or the NDP?

Because you’re the sort of person who reads political blogs, obviously the answer is extraordinarily easy. So insultingly easy, in fact, you may have suspiciously assumed I’m only asking as a way to segue into some smarmy point about how the CPC [...]