At a business school event, the Prime Minister said that they don’t want foreign takeover rules that are too clear because the government wants room to manoeuvre in the event that some takeover bids aren’t good for the country and need to be blocked. He also said that the free trade deals that they are negotiating with China, India and South Korea aren’t going to be the same as the EU trade deal just agreed to, as they won’t be of the same depth or comprehensiveness.

Jason Kenney met with his provincial counterparts yesterday to discuss the Canada Jobs Grant plans, and good news – they’ve agreed to keep talking about it. Since, of course, they don’t actually agree on any of it. In fact, the meeting was characterised as “frosty” and “tense.” Building bridges, Jason Kenney style!

The government has tabled a “drug free prisons” bill, which we already know is going to work oh so well. Because their previous drug interdiction methods have been super successful (they haven’t been anything other than expensive), and they’ll simply keep people who test positive for drug use in jail longer, which again solves none of the problems. But they have a bill! They’re tackling the problem!

Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell look back twenty years after she left office, and notes that she wasn’t an anomaly or accident, but the victim of bad timing.

Aaron Wherry looks at the history of fall economic updates, and how even when they were delivered outside of Ottawa under Liberal finance ministers, it was always to meetings of the Finance committee. Not so with Jim Flaherty.

At his “Ladies’ Night” event in Toronto, Justin Trudeau was asked which country’s administration he admired and he first, facetiously, said China’s and made a joke about Harper before saying that it was really those of the Territories, because they all work together to get stuff done. But suddenly the pile-on started about how he preferred dictatorships, even though he was being facetious. Trudeau later said that his point about China was that one of our major competitors has the ability to address issues quickly. Meanwhile, Emma Tietel was in the audience, and says the larger problem is when these smaller groups of women start representing women in general, treating themselves as a special interest group when they shouldn’t be speaking for one another.

In shocking news, the oil and gas sector doesn’t want Alberta’s new emissions regulations to be too tough, or for the revised carbon price to be too high so that they can keep competitive, and to invest in technologies that will reduce their carbon emissions.

The NDP have questions about some of the standards that the government is proposing for the Sea King helicopter replacement deal that they are looking to renegotiate.

Pamela Wallin’s lawyer vows to fight any government attempt to change the legislation around senators’ pensions, as it would not only be unduly vindictive, but also retroactively change the conditions that were voted on in the Chamber.

Here’s a preview of the Supreme Court reference on Senate reform that will be heard next week.

Stephen Harper’s decision to boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka has sparked a debate in India if their Prime Minister should skip the meeting as well.

NDP MP Nathan Cullen has opted not to run for BC’s NDP leadership.

Economist Stephen Gordon wonders if we’re not still in a structural deficit in this country.

Here’s a look at the patchwork across the country when it comes to the status of Remembrance Day.

Andrew Coyne takes the piss out of the many media apologies that have been made in the past few weeks.

And Steve Murray gives examples of what a Charter of Regional Canadian Values might look like, such as hat brim sizes in Alberta, or Roughriders merchandise in Saskatchewan.