The OG
Looking ahead to the fall election, many people are speculating on what might happen and are looking at many different angles to try to figure out what the end results…
Cam Holmstrom
Talking Premiers Meetings and Carbon Tax in Court on CFRA
This afternoon I had the chance to talk with CFRA’s Anna Desmarais on their Strategy Session. Along with Sabrina Grover, we talk about the Premiers Meetings starting in Saskatchewan, new…
Educated Ignorance
2019 has been a rough year in our politics so far, and with a big election coming in the fall, it seems to be sure to get harder before it…
Magpie Brûlé Podcast: The Quiet Season at Queen’s Park & The Importance of Candidate Vetting
Today I was happy to be able to record and post the newest episode of the Magpie Brûlé podcast. In this episode I talk about the “Quiet Season” at Queen’s…
The Quiet Season at Queen’s Park
July is supposed to be a quiet month for most politicians, or at least it’s usually among the quietest for them. Elected people are back at home in their ridings,…
The Importance of Candidate Vetting
One of the most important parts of a well run party in the 21st century is a solid organizing team, one that is able to not only get members activate…
Banking on a Solution
Canada is a massive country, a huge swath of land stretching to the eastern, western and northern extremes of the North American continent. Being such a geographically large country brings…
The New Landscape?
We’re very early in the run up to the 43rd general election, and the start of July kind of unofficially marks the end of the 42nd Parliament. Everything that is…
John Rafferty – July 3, 1953- June 30, 2019
In our lives, if we are lucky, we have some good people who come into it and become a part of it, even if only for a while. Some of…
Ultimate Disrespect
It’s been said by many observers so far, myself include, that the upcoming fall election promises to be an especially vicious one. In the last few years, we’ve seen some…
A Day I Thought I’d Never See
Since my first day working in political Ottawa, there have been many moments when I’ve been reminded of where I am, what I was doing and what that meant. I’m…
The Best Little Gravy Train in Ontario
As I noted here a couple of days ago, the troubles for the Ford Conservatives at Queen’s Park don’t seem to be close to being at an end. While the…
In The Mail
With the fall election getting closer and closer by the day, we are starting to see the different parties ramp up in different ways. Between the floods of emails soliciting…
The Long Shadow of French
When Doug Ford adjourned the Ontario Legislature for five months, until well after the Federal election in the Fall, all the talk out there about this move was that this…
The Case for Better
Social Media has changed so much in our modern world, but probably in no greater way than in politics. This hasn’t all been good, but instead of throwing the baby…
What a Final Straw
Everyone gets involved in politics for their own reasons, and those reasons can be quite varied. For many though, when it comes to those reasons for getting involved they are…
Two Votes
You may remember back in May we saw the results from the provincial election in Newfoundland and Labrador, a result that was historic and a surprise. The governing Liberals of…
Ford Fight
Most experts have been predicting that the upcoming Federal election is going to be a wild and intense. There is a lot of uncertainty and a few wildcards in this…
The Big Ford Shuffle
It’s been just over a year since Ontarians elected the Ford Conservatives to a majority government and it’s not been a smooth ride so far. Between the massive cuts all…
Drunken Sobriety
When I started blogging the first time well over a decade ago, I set a few ground rules for myself, rules that I’ve stuck to ever since and I believe…