A great person
I’ve been offline this week from the normal political/social stuff due to the passing of my last grandparent this past Monday. His funeral was today – someone I’m going to…
Scott Tribe
An interesting Showcase Day
I thought I’d take a day to reflect on yesterday’s proceedings. Firstly, the Progressive Bloggers event was a success. A good turnout, with some special appearances by George Takach and…
Hint to LPC: supply power to the tables you accredit bloggers for next time
I’m still at the Prog Blog meetup as I type this; we’ve had a good turnout so far with visits from George Takach (and unexpectedly a visit from Deborah Coyne),…
Joyce Murray submits her answers to my 6 questions
I will not lie; I’ve been very disappointed with the lackadaisical response from the LPC Leadership candidates to a series of questions I submitted to them for responding – not…
Hate to say this.. but things like this happen in 3′s, it seems
Former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein passed away a couple of days ago at the age of 70 – not unexpected, as media reported a couple of weeks back that his…
A non-endorsement in the LPC Leadership race.
I’m still a neutral in this Liberal Leadership race, and haven’t decided yet who I’ll vote for and in what order, but I can certainly tell you who isn’t going…
What thousands of (Tundra) swans sound like
A slightly different blogpost today then I usually do. It’s about Swans. Tundra Swans to be exact.. and thousands of them; There may be other types of swans or geese…
Fair Vote Canada’s out to lunch on Ranked Ballot Initiative, treatment of its own members who support it.
I’ve shared some common ground with Fair Vote Canada over the past few years, because I support electoral reform to our electoral system, as they do, and I generally believe…
Google Reader’s closing also about to close BANPC
The Blogging Alliance of Non-Partisan Canadians (BANPC for short) was started in April 2005, 3 months before Progressive Bloggers started. It may be the 2nd oldest blogging aggregator currently out…
If Garneau is conceding, what of the others?
There were a lot of other LPC leadership contenders I’d have thought would concede the race a lot sooner then Marc Garneau did – those folks who didn’t even have…
Blogger accreditation for the LPC Showcase is confirmed (& I’m confirmed going).
I had an email from the Liberal Party of Canada arrive in my mailbox today to those “independent bloggers” who expressed interested in covering the event. Basically, it confirmed that’s…
Joyce Murray and her supporters can’t be ignored with a good vote result
A nice article by Tim Harper on Liberal Leadership candidate Joyce Murray can be found here. There seems to be a growing impression Ms. Murray will do well in voting…
Could be just me…
….but Tim Hudak seems like an angry guy these days. The modus operandi of the Ontario PC leader seems to be to “attack” everyone and everything these days as a…
Deborah Coyne is the 1st to answer 6 questions.
A couple of weeks back, as I did with the OLP candidates, I submitted a series of questions (6 of them) to the LPC leadership candidates, making it clear that…
On advocacy groups supporting Joyce Murray
As mentioned, Sunday March 3, Midnight is the last day for supporters (or LPC members for that matter) to sign up with the intent of voting for the next Liberal…
Your last day to sign up to elect the Liberal Leader: Sunday March 3.
Sunday March 3 is the last day you can sign up to become a “Supporter” of the federal Liberal Party of Canada and be eligible to vote for the new…
And then there were 8.
George Takach decided to withdraw from the Liberal Leadership Race and throw his support to Justin Trudeau yesterday: Takach, who called himself the “technology candidate,” had acknowledged that he was…
My brief take on the Ontario Throne Speech
Briefly – Wynne and the Liberals sounded conciliatory, the NDP said it would support the Throne Spech and subsequent budget, provided the Liberals give them some goodies, and Tim Hudak…
Another Liberal debate – JT came out of it smelling like roses
Another in the series of Liberal debates happened on the weekend. As you might have heard, Martha Hall Findlay decided to go after Justin Trudeau on the question of privilege…
Political Bits and Bites
– It was a historic event for Kathleen Wynne being sworn in as the first female Premier. A pity that a lot of the MP’s decided not to attend. The…