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Son of Meech
Stephen Harper has been dropping hints about re-opening the constitution for a while. At least, he has ever since he traded in his Reform Party principles for a chance to become Brian Mulroney Jr. So it shouldn’t have been a huge surprise that yesterday Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Rona Ambrose Jean-Pierre Blackburn suggested a Tory majority […]
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Farce of the Penguins
Well, I felt I needed to put something up just so that the April Fools post isn’t at the top of the blog come tomorrow. The joke of the day went to a joint effort between the BBC for this delightful video: On the political scene, Art Hanger was flying out of the Justice Committee […]
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Emphasis on "Fixed"
I haven’t seen this hit the national media yet, but this news story out of Alberta is just…wow: Stelmach Promises Fixed Election Dates, Longer Terms EDMONTON- Premier Ed Stelmach’s first bill since his reelection has drawn heavy criticism from opposition parties who characterize it as “undemocratic”. The bill, to be tabled today, calls for Alberta […]
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Liberal Critics Shuffle
-Rae stays in Foreign Affairs, while Findlay and Murray will get eased in with associate and vice chair portfolios. -In the most interesting move of this shuffle, and one which will probably be overlooked by a lot of people, Gerard Kennedy is the new intergovernmental affairs critic from outside caucus, replacing Dominic LeBlanc (who also […]
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Going Postal
It seems some Liberals have been raising a stink about the Tories using the taxpayer funded mail-outs available to all MPs to blanket swing ridings with Conservative propaganda. Now, yes, if the Conservatives are breaking the law by going over quota, they should be held to account. But if this is just a smart re-allocation […]
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Ian Brodie Could Not Be Reached For Comment
Clinton ready to walk away from NAFTA, adviser warns
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Fun Fridays
As a new end of the week feature on this blog, I present the first edition of “fun Fridays”. A pot pourri of off-topic odds and ends. 1. Signs the human race is too stupid to live, courtesy of James Bow. 2. I’ve really been digging the freakonomics blog of late. Some interesting posts include […]
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Fight! Fight! Fight!
It’s gotten to the point where it’s almost weird when John Tory is the one criticizing McGuinty and explaining how the Tories would run Ontario. I thought John had permanently deferred to Van Loan/Flaherty/Poilievre on that. Yesterday it was Pierre Poilievre displaying his usual class in response to the following rather benign criticisms the small […]
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Blame Ontario! It seems that everything’s gone wrong, since Dalton came along!
If there was any doubt about Harper’s motives in this spat with Ontario, they’ve certainly been answered over the last two days. There’s nothing wrong with the federal Finance Minister giving advice to his provincial counterparts since you can’t deny the Ontario and Canadian economies are interconnected. There’s probably even a time and place for […]
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Preliminary Thoughts on the Ontario Budget
I’m new to the Ontario political scene so I don’t feel I’m qualified to offer up detailed analysis on today’s budget. What I will do, is offer the following bit of advice to Dwight Duncan, in light of this: Ontario Treasurer Dwight Duncan, who sported a new Ontario-made BlackBerry instead of the customary pair of […]