After six years, many elections, and two leadership contests, I have decided the time has come for this website to die. It has been fun, but I have lost interest. The ‘eureka’ moment came to me when I was forcing myself to write something, …
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CTV: Now Reporting Breaking News From July 2010!
Everyone has known about this for a long time. I have been out of the country for three years, and out of Ottawa for the better part of eight years, and I knew. There is no excuse, none, for failing to report on this before or during an ele…
Continue readingBob Dechert
This coverage of his emails is ridiculous. Can it stop now, please. Thank you. This is not news.
Continue readingOn Mergers and Acquisitions
Moson Breweries executives will tell you that they merged with Coors, and old Progressive Conservatives like Peter Mackay will tell you that the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada merged with the Reform Party of Canada. Sometimes, a merger …
Continue readingWait a minute. Does this make Tim Hudak cool?
News Flash! Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak says he smoked dope in his youth. And, he inhaled! Mr. Hudak made the admission on Thursday in response to questions from reporters about his latest campaign pledge to get tough on crime. He…
Continue readingThis is what you expect when money is ilegally misappropriated
Members of project selection committee Clement chaired received 83 per cent of $50-million G8 fundDiscuss.
Continue readingJason Kenney’s Own Staff Abandons Him
There is no comparison between the weight of opinion brought to the debate on the important issue of judicial independence by the Rt. Hon Beverly McLachlin, Canada’s top jurist, and the Hon. Jason Kenney, whose legal credentials are… are… according…
Continue readingTurmel Scandal Enters Week 2
The “Government In Waiting” is off to a slow start. The parliamentary session has not even begun for the fall, and already the major issue isn’t any oversight of the government, it is a dispute over their own new chosen interim leader. NDP …
Continue readingPlot thickens in Turmel scandal
She didn’t just USED to belong to another political party, she CURRENTLY belongs to another political party. In this report, she says herself that she plans to “let go” of non NDP membership. This is your government in waiting folks. Clearl…
Continue readingThe New Kids in the Bloc
This is the real reason that an NDP/ Liberal merger is impossible. The Liberal Party of Canada, if nothing else, is the party of the “NO” vote, the party of two official languages, and the party of the constitution.As long as the NDP favours aban…
Continue readingThe convention explained
James —
It was a privilege to chair today’s Extraordinary Convention. Along with Convention Returning Officer Beatrice Raffoul and General Secretary Ian McKay, I would like to extend our thanks to all Liberal members who participated in this his…
It’s not Grit Girl, but it’ll do
Prediction: three consecutive majorities. Dalton McGuinty is going to pull a Chretien.
Continue readingCongratulations Elizabeth May on the First Green Party Parliamentary Climb Down!
She says one thing one day, and backs down from it the next. The Green Party of Canada is growing up folks. You see it is doing all the things the other parties do!
Of course correct me if I’m wrong that this is the first one. Did Blair Wilson e…
Continue readingSay what you will about Ottawa and the Senators
We would never do this.
Continue readingLPC Keeps Focus on Jobs, Economy
This is good to see. Team Red isn’t being distracted by vote subsidies and other issues nobody cares about.
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Budget Shows Profound Complacency: No Plan for Jobs, No Plan for the Deficit, No Plan for Poverty, No Plan for Sustai…
Continue readingBrigette DePape
Hello friends,
I am now done school, which leaves me with significantly more time to blog obnoxiously about whatever I think. Here is my first installment.
Michael Moore has hired our recently dismissed Senate page, Brigette DePape. Good for hi…
Continue readingDid Lord Black Say That On Purpose?
I cannot say exactly what he meant, but someone should ask him:
“Those who oppose the existence of the state of Israel, for whatever motive, know that unless there is an unanswerable nuclear attack on Israel, which will not be possible even if Iran d…
Continue readingCue new chapter of press releases
For Immediate Release
June 1, 2011
Introducing the Liberal Team
OTTAWA – Liberal Leader Bob Rae today introduced the Party’s new House of Commons line-up – one that builds on the depth and experience of the Liberal Caucus. In addition to c…
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