"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant: No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt." So said Pierre Trudeau to Americans during a speech at the National Press Club in 1969.
The Elephant is a blog that takes Trudeau's quote to heart. What happens in Washington still creates ripples, or waves, north of the 49th parallel. The Elephant will, by virtue of upcoming events, focus heavily on presidential politics as ...
A couple weeks back when John McCain held court at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was nowhere to be found. Okay, so that's not quite right. He was in Saskatchewan (not nowhere, despite what folks who aren't actually from...( read more ) ...
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