For those who have better things to do than watch CPAC on the Sunday afternoon, you probably missed the third Liberal leadership debate in Quebec City. I did prefer the new format but it seemed like time always ran out just as things started to get interested. Given that most of the debate was in […]

Way back in March, I asked people to predict who would run for Liberal leadership. Looking back at the guesses made, it’s clear that no one really had a good idea of how this race would shape up back then. Everyone knew Belinda would run, and a lot of people were convinced we’d see Goodale […]

Pope Benedict has decided to weigh in on Canada’s domestic politics: “In the name of tolerance, your country has had to endure the folly of the redefinition of spouse, and in the name of freedom of choice it is confronted with the daily destruction of unborn children,” the Pope told a group of bishops from […]

Consider this a minor update to my first round ballot projections…or, more appropriately, a correction. It seems, I had the wrong formula in my excel spreadsheet for calculating existing support, which caused a few numbers to be skewed. I’ve corrected this and also gone through and used the most recent blogger endorsement (and for those […]

Rick Bell has a great article raking the provincial PCs over the coals in today’s Calgary Sun. Yes, that would be the same Calgary Sun which feels Ted Morton is too much of a pinko commie to run this province. Among the highlights: From the party who brought us the problem, they tell us they […]

I’ll be posting revised leadership projections later tonight after I found a small glitch in my original formula. Until then, here’s a look at the news: 1. He’s baaaaaack! I must say, I can’t wait for Monday Report the Rick Mercer Report to start airing again next month. Until then, Rick is back and blogging. […]

Thanks to a little help from his friends, Preston Manning emerged victorious last week in the “Best Prime Minister We Never Had” poll. While the contest did help to illustrate the problems of reading meaningful results from any form of Internet poll, I had a lot of fun running it and I hope it helped […]

After a fun sojourn across Hungary, I have returned to cowtown, so you can expect posting to resume at it’s usual pace. It should be a busy September with a crowded fall agenda on the Parliamentary horizon and the Liberal leadership race heating up. In the coming days, I’ll get some house cleaning posts out […]

(I drafted this a few weeks ago, saving it for a time like now when I wouldn’t have time to write anything new and/or interesting) While Iran’s role in the international community is ambiguous, the country has taken a huge step forward in the blogging community. Yes, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a blog. He’s no […]

This actually really surprised me. Of the ten candidates remaining, there was only one who I thought might not run in the next election for the Liberals should he lose, and it wasn’t Michael. Maybe this is just another case of Ignatieff choosing his words poorly but I certainly do hope that all ten candidates […]