Kay on Justin Trudeau: He’s not just a Pretty Face
Jonathan Kay of the National Post has an interesting reply to those commentators who describe Justin Trudeau as a lightweight politician: Justin Trudeau into the ring? It’s fashionable to write…
2015 election
John Ibbitson gives some good reasons for choosing Justin Trudeau
In today’s Globe & Mail Ibbitson sets out some reasons why Justin Trudeau deciding to run for Liberal Party leadership is a good thing for the party. His point about…
Should Mulcair channel Hillary Clinton on the Ballot Box Question?
The 2015 election is already on, with Stephen Harper trying to choose the ballot question as anything but the poor Conservative performance in so many areas, the party’s blunders and…
The key to renewed Liberal Party power: The Untouched Constituency
Just started reading Fear and Loathing: One the Campaign Trail ’72, by Hunter S. Thompson, and came across this passage early on: There are only two ways to make it…
To know, know, know Mulcair, is to love, love, love him less
The tussle between the NDP, led by Thomas Mulcair, and the currently leaderless Liberal Party of Canada is heating up. And some Liberals are targeting the ambivalent positions of the…
Justin Trudeau and the expected reverse voter migrations
The Cat believes that it is almost certain that Justin Trudeau will run for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada. If he does not, his credibility would be…
Stephen Harper’s doubful future – Rumblings
This snippet from this interesting article is worth considering, given the polls showing the slow motion collapse of support for the Harper new Tories across the country: Prentice is well-regarded…
Justin Trudeau: Thomas Mulcair’s worst nightmare
If Justin Trudeau was leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and an election was held today, then three of Thomas Mulcair’s nightmare events would take place Firstly, and most…
Justin Trudeau: Just how sticky is Quebec support for Thomas Mulcair’s NDP?
The answer? Not very sticky. The straw in the wind of the huge problem facing Mulcair and his NDP MPs in Quebec comes from the June 15 Forum poll, which…
Liberals will hold the balance of power in the next Parliament
Come the election, with the Harper new Tories brand tarnished ever more every day, the polls have for the last few weeks shown that Harper will be out as prime…
Harper’s government is finding out that if you mess with our Parliament, you mess with Canadians
The inner core of Stephen Harper and his Reform-factioned Conservative Party revolves around an authoritarian streak a mile wide, and a distaste for our democratic institutions (Parliament, the civil service,…
‘Macho Man’ Mulcair displaces Stephen ‘The Warrior’ Harper amongst men
The NDP’s steady progress in acceptability is ongoing, and the Harper Conservatives must be wondering what on earth they can do to smear Thomas Mulcair and the socialist hordes. Despite…
The 2015 Election: Why there will be a change of government
Stephen Harper is claiming that the “Harper Government” has delivered on its promises, and will strengthen the economy , while slashing jobs left right and centre in order to reduce…