Unable to reach agreement on what to cut and by how much, the American governmental Troika (the House, the Senate and the President) struck a Supercommittee consisting of 12 members…
The Republican field is thinning as contenders shoot themselves in the foot and limp offstage. Bachmann self destructed. Front runner Herman Cain is fumbling badly, changing his stories about what…
An epic struggle for the future of the EU was started this morning when a Greek politician threw down the gauntlet, challenging both those within his country who opposed his…
A straw in the wind, which might soon become the straw that broke the NDP camel's back in Quebec: membership cards are excruciatingly slow for one province.Guess which province?The one…
In 2010 the Conservative Party of Stephen Harper received donations from almost three times as many individuals as the Liberal Party did.The Tories raised $17 million from just ovvr 95,000…
The answer is found in the politwitter website. The statistics on the site are a bit out of date but do give us a snapshot of how the parties fare…
We've just seen a case of trickle down kicking taking place in the EU. Sarkozy wanted to use the European Central Bank to bail out the banks, but Merkel quickly…
It's been a little over a week since Nathan Cullen launched his bid for leadership of the NDP with a bold plan to encourage cooperation between members of the three…
Anyone wanting to know how to deal with the banks should not look to President Obama but to Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany. Deep Throat in BrusselsDeep Throat has it…
Banks and politicians should take the time to ponder this extract (my redlining) from an article by Adreas Whittam Smith in The Independent:How did some banks become "too big to…
To some, the Eurozone crisis has all the hallmarks of a train crash. These onlookers are only partly right.The Eurozone crisis is a slow motion train wreck, with the speed…
OccupyWallStreet is spawning offspring at a healthy click, and I'm not talking about occupy some other city kind of spawning!A fascinating website named epolitics has a posting on two recent…
In today's Toronto Star Chantal Hebert writes about Nathan Cullen's idea for electoral cooperation between the LPCC, NDP and Green Party. She is of the opinion that the idea is…
The NDP now have three good candidates for their top job: The Fighter, The Dealer and The Visionary.Both Brian Topp and Thomas Mulcair have decades of experience in practical politics,…
Why would a young MP decide to join the race for leadership of the NDP, when he faces competition from veterans in the field, such as a backroom dealer, Brian…
In a wide ranging interview by Tim Naumetz in The Hill Times, Nathan Cullen, the innovative young NDP MP who has joined the race to replace Jack Layton as leader…
Outspoken NDP MP Pat Martin is calling their leadership skills into question because of their 'knee jerk' rejection of the Turf-a-Tory Cullen Plan floated by NDP MP Nathan Cullen earlier…
I skimmed through some of 70 plus comments on the Thomas Walkom article on Nathan Cullen's idea to Turf-a-Tory through electoral cooperation between the Liberal, NDP and Green parties before…
Nathan Cullen had some blunt words for a Toronto crowd he addressed last night, when asked about the risks to a party which decided to adopt the Cullen Plan and…
Several people have written or blogged about the Cullen Plan for electoral cooperation between the NDP and Liberal Party in certain ridings for the 2015 election. The response has been…
