Liberal.ca has gotten a face lift and, no, contrary to popular rumour, there is no green stripe anywhere on the site. The interface looks similar, but there’s a lot of media there including a wide range of podcasts for anyone wanting to workout to the sweet sound of Stephane Dion’s voice.

For anyone feeling nostalgic, Don Newman had a good interview with Jean Chretien today (which you should be able to download here, sometime this evening). The main focus was on the Charter but, of course, talk drifted on to things like Harper, re-opening the constitution, the Liberal-Green deal, Dion’s leadership and a host of other […]

-I have to give a thumbs down to Ontario’s MMP referendum. I’m not completely against electoral reform, but when you have party leaders writing the party list, you have a situation where MPPs are being appointed which strikes me as being completely against the principle of having an elected house. -Buzz is the Liberals will […]

Anyone else think we’re going to get another round of constitutional talks if the Tories gets a majority government? Given a few in passing musings by Harper on this in the past, the talk of limiting federal spending powers, and the current political climate in Quebec, I’d certainly answer that question with a oui.

The big news today is the announcement that the Liberals will not run a candidate in Elizabeth May’s riding which is a shocking surprise for anyone who has been living in Bolivia the past three months. Actually, calling it “Elizabeth May’s riding” is charitable since it’s still going to be Peter MacKay’s, even with this […]

I know the Conservatives are trying to cut unemployment. And I know there aren’t a lot of job openings for “separatist politician” these days. But I’m not sure if a former PQ Cabinet Minister was the best person for Michael Fortier to hire to look into Liberal polling contracts. You see, optics is everything. And […]

A lot of people will no doubt try and spin Belinda Stronach’s decision to quit politics as a blow to the Liberal Party. But I think we should take a moment of silence for the people this retirement will affect most – the blogging Tories. When you think of the hundreds of jokes at her […]

I played hooky for one of the election readiness workshops at the ALP convention this Saturday to phone in to the Quebec election post-mortem bloggers hotstove with Antonio, Tasha, and our host Greg. I’ll have a full convention recap up tomorrow but, I must say, all the talk this past month about the Quebec election […]

I’m heading down to Calgary for the ALP convention this weekend so no updates until Sunday. Until then, I am pleased to present the first part of a 308 part series, Better Know a Riding. Today – Central Nova! The fighting Novas! Central Nova is home to St. Francis Xavier University, and its neckless President […]

-The debate for reasonable accommodation takes on a whole new life. (Hat Tip MaD) -Polls go up and down and the common consensus changes by the week so I won’t move away from my prediction of no spring election. BUT…if the Tory internals show numbers like this consistently over the next few weeks, Harper would […]