What? You expect me to be Premier EVERYDAY? Thanks to the Vancouver Sun for linking this telling video where newly minted Director of Communications Sara MacIntyre tells reporters essentially that…
I only like democracy when the numbers are in my favor. Stephane Dion penned an op-ed for the National Post. (there’s an odd combination) detailing how the NDP’s position on…
Many of you will remember yesterdays post about John Fryer, the UVic professor who wrote a letter to the editor of the Globe and Mail about the two day Manning…
Orwell had never been Robocalled Emma Pullman, Director of Research at Leadnow.ca, has published an article in the Vancouver Observer that promises to blow the deflections of the Conservative Party…
There is a lot of rhetoric going around in the current BCTF/BC Liberal Government battle over teachers contracts. To set a context; BC teachers have been without a contract since…
Cartoon Representation May Not Be 100% Accurate, Much Like Adler's Own Musings After reading a recent post by resident cranky old man of Sun News Network Charles Adler I decided…
What a year 2011 was. Who would have thought in January that the Conservatives would, by May, have a majority government? That the Bloc, so long a dominant force in…
Huffington Post Canada has carried a joint paper published by Queens University, The University of Toronto and Statistics Canada that shows Canadians are increasingly becoming ghettoized by income. The paper…
First we had the cuts to ozone monitoring that saw the shuttering of 17 ozone monitoring stations across Canada. The reason? Ozone apparently wasn’t a concern anymore (see Canada’s newest…
If it's not on a cup, it's not true. Guess what folks, you can buy your official Made In The USA Obama merch now. Have a birther friend who you…
Winston Blackmore, a religious leader in the polygamous community of Bountiful near Creston, B.C., laughs with six of his daughters and some of his grandchildren in 2008. On Wednesday the…
So imagine this. You are an MP of a riding in the middle of Montreal. You’re not any MP, though, you are a Liberal MP. Your party has held this…
I will be interviewing NDP Leadership candidate Nathan Cullen this Friday. If you have any questions you would like me to ask, feel free to post them on the blog…
I connected with Dave.ca’s Dave Teixeira today to talk about the Occupy Vancouver encampment, civic politics, premier Christy Clark and also got Dave’s opinion on what the coming months would…
Andrew Coyne got a little testy with me today on twitter over, what I can only assume, was an innocent question. Let me start off by saying I’m not an…
Cross posted from The Ryan Painter Show On the eve of the (hopeful) cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline I feel it’s important to look back and examine the Ethical…
I read this morning that Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has sided with Quebec Premier Jean Charest against Bill C-10, the Omnibus Crime Bill. Both Premiers have committed to not paying…
I nearly fell over the other day listening to the CBC’s Power and Politics (yes I know I said I would stop listening to this show but lord knows it’s…
