No offense to Evan Solomon but does anyone else love it when Rosemary Barton hosts Power and Politics?
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Adam M On The Front Page: Guess Who’s Hiring…
It must have been the fault of the low-level employees because they’re getting replaced… Think you can do better? Go ahead and apply…
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: You Get The Best Of Both Worlds, Chill It Out Take It Slow Then We’ll Rock Out This Show
OK. I think the situation has turned out quite nicely. I won’t say I was against an election per se, but I was definitely not gunning for it. What the Liberal Party needed more than an election, more than anything, was a chance to get out of the corner it
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: View From the Outside
Have you ever read the New York Times index bio on Stephen Harper? It doesn’t read like anything you’d see in a newspaper here, despite being pretty accurate. Check it out.
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: Good News
I’m so glad the recession’s over. I’m taking this news as true, since I believe everything Mark Carney says. That man is a genius. I am also relieved that Canadian versions of food have more salt. I love salt! Woohoo!
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: Guess Who’s Hiring
And advertised for a 12-month term only.Who says that having long-term employees who are experts in their job and develop loyalty to their employer is important?Why bother with that when you can have a bunch of migrants who come and go and use their po…
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: Can’t Leave Anything Alone
From Adam M is 30Republicans always want to talk about tradition and respect.But they can never let anything go when they should and they’ll never miss an opportunity to bad-mouth dead people or cause a scene in relation to someone’s funeral they don’t…
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A little self-advertising…I have one more show to go in the run of my one man show, Ten Years, the story of how I came to be unemployed and living in my parents’ basement at age 30.The show is at 8 PM, Sunday June 28 and runs for one hour.It takes pl…
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: Framing The Question
Here is what Michael Ignatieff needs to do to define the decision to go to an election or not.Regardless of what action is taken the correct question is this: “We need to decide whether it is more harmful to the economy to have an election now or to le…
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: Closing The Case
With everything that’s happened, being able to make traction on the Lisa Raitt Toronto Port Authority expense scandal can really be the final thing (and just perfectly timed) to finish her off.It’s going to be hard to make it get attention or make peop…
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: Priorities
When Lisa Raitt lost the secret documents she let down her party. And she offered to resign.When Lisa Raitt used hideous language relating to the Health Crisis her ministry is in she let down her country and her fellow citizens. But she didn’t offer to…
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: Missing the Target
I don’t think Michael Ignatieff landed the target on Lisa Raitt during question period.There is a lot of confusion at what the issues are in Raitt’s new case of stupidity and I think they needed to be approached in a more clear way.You need to ask Cons…
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: Body Language
If you watch Question Period on a regular basis you notice the always-entertaining facial expressions and reactions of Helena Guergis. Whenever a member of the Cabinet speaks Helena is almost always in the shot doing over-the-top facial expressions, no…
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: It’s In The Details
This John Baird is a rude bastard scandal has been awesome so far.But does it have legs? Another private conversation overheard, not intended for public repetition, a badly behaved individual venting his anger privately to coworkers, but no secret tape…
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Am I the only one who hasn’t seen this?
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So apparently Lisa Raitt’s behavior was commonplace.Here’s something else I don’t understand… Lisa Raitt supposedly had these documents out at CTV to brief for her interview. Was her interview about cost overruns at Chalk River?What was in this secre…
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: Something I Don’t Understand
I’m sorry, but how did a director of communications happen to have custody of documents marked secret and serially numbered as such?If Lisa Raitt had to hand the documents off to someone to do a TV appearance, why to a communications director?Maybe her…
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