Liberals will never be lonely
Not when Conservatives keep writing nitpicky, protests-too-much columns like this. Beardsley is probably right about the summer travelling being about staying in the media eye. Why not? It is important…
Nancy Leblanc
Clement’s user fees kabuki dance
Well this seems strange: "Federal departments to propose user fees hikes despite government promises."The Harper government may have vowed that cutting the deficit would not lead to higher user fees,…
Friday night
Some Canadiana this week. Happy Canada Day to all!
Great day for Nortel
Not for everybody though: Nortel Networks Corp. has auctioned off its remaining patents to a "rock star" group of technology companies in the biggest patent sale in history, ending a…
More on the AECL farce
From the smart folks at Enviralment:Montreal-based engineering firm SNC-Lavalin has begrudgingly stepped up to buy the commercial arm of the crown corporation. The firm is no stranger to CANDU technology,…
Ritz on the Wheat Board plebiscite
It's quick, you'll get it in the first ten seconds. More here, "Ritz takes swipe at CWB; says plebiscite irrelevant," and in this piece which quotes Oberg, the Wheat Board…
Late night
Are you tired of Glastonbury yet? I'm not. Yes, Beyonce with her all girl band it is tonight. She was quite awesome on Sunday, closed it out. This fan video…
$15 million for AECL
"Ottawa sells AECL to SNC-Lavalin." The federal government is selling Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.’s Candu division for $15-million and future royalties, after pouring billions of dollars into the troubled…
Wednesday drive-by blogging
From some American links that caught the eye and offer a mirror to things Canadian in their own respective ways...First, a brilliant post, "Democracy and Gay Marriage" by Ta-Nehisi Coates.…
Late night
Look at the crowd for Laura Marling, wow. What a great voice.
24 hours in post-election & post-parliamentary session developments
A few items from the past 24 hours that have that air of careful timing to them for a government that would prefer such things to occur beyond the parliamentary…
Late night
More from Glastonbury, Ed Sheeran who is 20 years old! Man. "Cool girl, no phone...," great line.
Arts funding arbitrariness
Despite the diplomatic reaction by a SummerWorks board member, this does seem like a predictable result given last year's Prime Ministerial public pronouncement about the content of one play put…
Liberalbook
That's what it looks like to me and it's a needed evolution. There are lots of discussions out there on the future of the party in niches yet this central…
Going to plan
As a clever person pointed out to me last week, the fall 2008 economic update is being executed now quite swimmingly following the election. We saw this one come to…
Horwath gaffe watch
So, the Ontario election campaign is getting a little more interesting of late. This quote by NDP leader Andrea Horwath really deserves a second look: “I’m putting a party back…
Late night
From the UK Glastonbury music festival, which is now over. Glastonbury's always worth watching just for the crowds and how they get into the songs, like this one. It's magic.…
Afghan detainee docs released
4000 of 40,000 documents have been released this afternoon. There may be much discussion to come on what is being released, how much has been redacted, etc. This report from…
The RCMP G8 evaluation in the early going
The way the news of a possible RCMP investigation into the Harper government's G8 spending broke yesterday really was interesting. We have learned, courtesy of the Auditor General's review, of…
70 years ago today
For the history buffs out there, this is one of Churchill's very memorable speeches selected in Brad DeLong's liveblog of today in World War II: "Winston Churchill Liveblogs World War…