C2C Journal's Joseph Quesnel interviews Danielle Smith on the social conservative v. libertarian divide in the conservative movement.

The world needs more Canada. So How come Canada and “democracy assistance” are oxymoronic? In a blast-from-the-past from Canada's Journal of Ideas, relevant again because of Tunisia and Egypt's uprisings, Shuvaloy Majumdar and Christopher Sands argue Canada should imitate how Ronald Reagan and U.S. labour leader Lane Kirkland helped out Poland's Solidarity in the 1980s….

The media is in a tizzy about a new conservative TV network in Canada. They need to be a little less self-absorbed argues Joseph Quesnel…

Canadian conservatives shouldn’t imitate Sisyphus and start back at the strategic bottom….

Don’t buy the propaganda from the large parties. Smaller parties can help push ideas forward in Canada….

Harper’s decision to request prorogation has proven controversial because his critics (some of them sympathetic to his political program) believe he is abusing his executive power over Parliament. Harper’s defenders point out that there is nothing unconstitutional about prorogation and that Parliament’s current dysfunction justifies it.

One inevitable side-effect of the disastrous performance of the U.S. Republicans in recent elections, and the apparent revival of statist economics across the western world, has been a sudden proliferation of books offering theories on the decline of conservatism and prescriptions for its revival. Derbyshire, however, makes a surprisingly energetic and amusing case for why conservatives should be unrelentingly pessimistic.