If you’re like me and your hockey pool isn’t going great, why not try your luck at the “Gordon O’Connor shuffle pool”. Simply pick who the next Minister of Defense will be and when the shuffle will occur and I will use some arbitrary method to pick a winner. And if you think Harper is […]

Just when you thought the guy was gone for good, Ralph Klein in back in the news: However, Klein said Sunday that people misheard him during his heavily improvised three-minute speech. He had actually been speaking about a protected parks area near Rocky Mountain House from which a documentary film crew was banned. As premier, […]

Justin Trudeau has squeaked out the Papineau Liberal nomination with a first ballot win. Good news in my opinion. The LPC could use some young blood, and Justin’s star power makes up for the loss of Belinda. Best of all, it gets a true hard line federalist in the Quebec caucus (if he wins…). As […]

Stephen Harper hasn’t had many bad days since becoming Prime Minister but, boy, the last two weeks have been tough ones for him. The rough patch all started last week with the taxpayer funded stylist turned psychic fiasco (she really should have seen it coming). Sure, it’s not a big deal, but it’s one of […]

(warning: This post has been edited by the department of Foreign Affairs for national security purposes) In a fairly remarkable front page story in today’s Globe & Mail, Paul Koring reveals that Canada’s New Government knew that “torture and abuse were rife in Afghan jails”, despite claims to the contrary. The Foreign Affairs department also […]

Tory emission plan faxed to Liberals

In today’s paper, the Edmonton Sun published the answers from party leaders to 20 questions about how environmentally friendly they live. Not too surprisingly, Stephen Harper declined to participate (“my stylist never picks out make-up which has been tested on animals“). While Jack Layton and Stephane Dion certainly appear to be living environmentally friendly lives, […]

Two topics which I just could not go without some comment: 1. My bestest bud Rob Anders will have to go through with a nomination after a judge denied the request to delay it on the grounds that “[Rob] cannot fairly and effectively fight a new nomination battle while performing his duties as a sitting […]

1) Harper has announced he will be appointing barley farmer Bert Brown to fill a Senate vacancy. Bert Brown is, of course, famous for plowing the following phrase into his field in the 1990s: “Triple-E Senate or else…appoint me and screw the effective and equal part of it”. 2) After Rona Ambrose’s initial Green Plan […]

“We promise to clean up government…and give it a haircut.” -Conservative campaign promise? It’s been confirmed that Canadian taxpayers are paying for Stephen Harper’s fashion consultant who “helps him perfect his look, including managing his wardrobe and general grooming”. While I’m a tad concerned that our Prime Minister has not yet mastered his own “general […]