Toronto Pride with the Queer Liberals
“There is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.” – Pierre Trudeau While at university I made appoint of watching the Toronto Pride Parade a a…
Bob Rae
Mulcair Makes Play For B.C. Vote
A damning report on Enbridge Inc.’s inept handling of the 2010 crude oil spill in Michigan should kill the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair said Tuesday in…
She’s no Charles Tupper: Alison Redford has been Alberta premier too long to be prime minister
A youngish Charles Tupper at his desk. “I knew Charles Tupper and Alison Redford is no Charles Tupper” – and a good thing for her, too! Below: Sir Charles as…
Bob Rae’s Exporting Democracy
When Michael Ignatief was the leader of the Liberal Party, I lamented that someone whose pre-politics life was as an expert on foreign affairs and had written several books on…
ndp and liberals searching for a pulse on the prairies.
Tweet You can be forgiven if you missed it. Hundreds of Liberals from across Alberta gathered in Edmonton last weekend for the biennial meeting of the Liberal Party of Canada…
Video: Scrum shopping on Parliament Hill
Every day that the House of Commons is sitting, just before the end of question period members of the press gallery begin to gather in the foyer outside the chamber…
Fixed Election Date #FAIL
WTF does not even begin to convey my complete and utter shock and disgust… Today, in the House of Commons, during Question Period, the interim leader of the Liberal Party…
Late night
Another attack ad that can’t be run now. Such a shame. Who knows, maybe the Mulcair thing will catch on though…
NDP Rise To 37%, Conservatives Drop To 30%
Since Tom Mulcair was chosen to lead the party back in March, the NDP has maintained a strong support across Canada, which has continued to grow. The opposite is true…
Quoted on affairs Liberal
Postmedia’s Lee Berthiaume filed the obligatory Justin Trudeau and the Liberal leadership story yesterday, and I’m quoted. First, in defence of charisma: “Charisma can be seen as superficial, but it…
The R-word : Liberal Party Redux
*Redux is a post-positive adjective meaning “brought back, restored” (from Latin reducere, “to bring back”) : All things must pass. Even the good things. There was a time when the…
A good decision for Bob Rae and for the Liberal Party
I was out and about all day yesterday so I haven’t had a chance to weigh-in yet on Bob Rae’s announcement that he won’t seek the permanent leadership of the…
The morning after
Interesting report last night on CBC’s The National for those still looking for some more news on the big story of yesterday. Notably, a certain MP who has been keeping…
Get Bob Rae A Sinecure!
BOOYAH! Bob Rae has chosen NOT to run for LPoC leadership, which is the best thing for the party and therefore, by definition, for the nation. If Stephen Harper won’t…
Rae not running
Not much time to write anything so just a few quick thoughts… Rae has said all along that he had not made a decision about running, despite the presumptions being…
Protected: It’s Justin, Not Pierre’s Son: Trudeau The Next Liberal Leader?
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Rae’s Play
Rae has milked the interim leader title for all its worth In perhaps the least surprising news story of the year, Bob Rae appears set to announce his candidacy for…
C-38 Speaker’s ruling reaction
Key point on Scheer’s ruling and the ongoing discussion over C-38, the government’s monstrous omnibus bill that jams unrelated and consequential bills into the budget process: “It’s something that clearly…
Facts versus Fodder
FACT: “We made a pact. I’m doing this interim job and that’s the job I’m doing.” — Bob Rae FACT: “I also have no qualms about saying this is a…
Leopard spots
Hot on the heels of the non-news that the Liberal Party’s national executive would rule soon that interim leader Bob Rae is “allowed” to run for the permanent leadership (he…