Thirty-seven lost days and 300 million squandered loonies later, there's one simple election question that has yet to be given a satisfactory answer in either of our official languages.      What the hell was that all about? To put it more delicately, why were ...

OTTAWA - Stephen Harper is not so scary anymore.       But Canadian voters - faced with the sudden emergence of a global economic meltdown in the middle of the election campaign - clearly decided Tuesday that Liberal Leader Stephane Dion probably ...