Calgary Centre By-Election
I don't live in Calgary Centre and I don't have a preference for who wins tomorrow - as long as it's not Joan Crockatt. Calgary is more politically diverse than…
November 2012
The Democrats should be so lucky
This is a real column in a real newspaper, not an article from the Onion or some piece of snark from the Daily Show. And the scary part is that…
Leadership Update: Candidate’s Brunch
In addition to the leadership debate that was held here in Saskatoon (which we will be talking about in a bit), the NDP Leadership candidates took some time to attend…
Dear Stephen Harper: Most Canadians Don’t Give A Crap About The Monarchy And The War of 1812 … but we love Public Health Care!!!
OTTAWA - Canadians, it seems, love their universal health care. The monarchy? Not so much.A new national poll commissioned by the Montreal-based Association for Canadian Studies examined the pride Canadians…
Nunavut RCMP charge seven BCC prisoners in wake of jail fires
Three men face charges of arson endangering life and aggravated assaultNUNATSIAQ NEWSHerbert Janes, Willie Ishulutak and Sylvester Tarraq are escorted to an RCMP vehicle after appearing Nov. 23 at the…
No progress on hospital superbugs
There has been no progress stopping the spread of superbugs in Ontario hospitals according to government data. Reported C. difficile rates are about the same as they have been, starting…
Three Reasons You Should Vote for Harvey Locke
A lot of talk has been made of strategic voting in the last week. While Harvey Locke does have the best chance (see this poll for the latest information and…
The Way It Works
Alexandra Mendes has lent me a book by Eddie Goldenberg called “The Way It Works”, which is about his time as a senior Chrétien adviser. I’m only a short way…
Government silence and media complicity
Every so often, someone in the mainstream media will complain about the Conservative government's muzzling of spokespeople, its secrecy, its general refusal to say anything about any subject that might…
North Cowichan Council as Christmas Grinches
When you recall the cavalier attitude displayed by the North Cowichan Mayor and Council when it came to the North Cowichan Municipal Hall upgrades and the associated costs it is…
On sad traditions
I haven't commented much on the latest out of the federal Libs' camp. But I'll quickly expand on the similarities noted by Paul Wells between Justin Trudeau and some of…
10,000 Doors in One Day — Calgary-Centre: It’s Close.
It’s close. Yesterday the Harvey Locke team in Calgary-Centre ID untold numbers of voters and knocked on 10,000 doors. The race is close in Calgary-Centre and, for the first time…
Wrong way Harper
"Poll points to lagging support for monarchy and universal pride in medicare." Shorter version of this fun little poll on a Sunday afternoon, Canadians for the most part aren't buying…
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Will Calgarians surprise the nation in tomorrow’s by-election vote?
TweetVoters in Calgary-Centre will mark their ballots tomorrow in what has become a unexpected hotly contested by-election in the centre of Alberta’s largest city. The race should have been a…
A Speech From Which We All Could Learn
I suspect, however, I know how the right-wing would react to this: H/t William B Devitt III Recommend this Post
A Park By Any Other Name…
So the Chair of the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation is promoting changing the nameof Guelph Park to Dude Chilling Park. No surprise here. Vision Vancouver, ever afraid of…
Wildrose leader to Albertans: You’re gullible and stupid!
Pastor Allan Hunsperger in exile, as seen by the Wildrose Party’s leadership. Below: Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith (mean photo by Dave Cournoyer); the real Allan Hunsperger; party strategist Tom Flanagan;…