Photo Gallery: Liberal Biennial Convention 2012
Now that the Liberal Biennial Convention has wrapped up and people have headed home to regroup and figure out how best to build on the ideas and momentum that so…
Bob Rae
If we’re betting everything on leadership, Bob Rae must be clear on intentions
Reflectingon last weekend’s Liberal Party of Canada biennial convention, where delegatesvoted against reducing the powers of the leader and put much of their hope forrebuilding into one key initiative –…
Grits Go to Pot!
… And Avoid Going to Copps That was the terribly witty headline in The Winnipeg Sun this morning. Never mind the snarky double-entendre; both are welcome developments arising from this…
Bob Rae Addresses LPC Presidents
To borrow a quote from James Wolcott: “ they’ve seen it all, they’ve said it all; they’re bored; we’re bored, let’s order another round of yawns.” I guess the take-away…
Liberals opt to tread cautiously into the future
Stage in Canada Hall at the Liberal Biennial Convention. Canada’s die-hard Liberals are wrapping up their Biennial Convention in Ottawa this afternoon. It has been an enthusiastic affair, despite the…
Federal Liberal adoption of Alberta Liberal voting rule is sure end badly
Your blogger with Alberta Liberal Leader Raj Sherman. Below: Federal Liberal Leader Bob Rae. If he loses his seat in the next provincial election, will Alberta Liberal Leader Raj Sherman…
What I Learned In One Day
As a politcal junkie conventions are one of the most exiciting events I can go to. This convention so far is no exception. At the convention is one of the…
In the Interim (2)
After ruefully running down the field of candidates for interim leader, here’s the conclusion I reached back in May: But, above all these names, the one that stands out is…
Shorter Bob Rae
I think this government sucks and the government I ran, which most people think sucked, doesn’t suck as bad as this one does. I kid, of course. His speech was…
Bob Rae’s March toward Coronation
In a development that will likely surprise few, it seems that steps are being prepared to permit Bob Rae, the Liberal Party’s interim leader, to run for the permanent leadership.…
Bob Rae and "Iffy Questions"
I can’t believe that anyone fell for it when he said he wasn’t going to run, and now its come back pretty definitively in this Globe article: “Now you’re asking…
Bob Rae Hits Quebec
While the story focuses on rehashed nothingness, there is something informative at the bottom of the Bob Rae article, namely the Liberals might have finally discovered this one province in…
Thoughts on the political circus around Attawapiskat
Sometimes you have to laugh, or cry. Today I did a bit of both. Minister Duncan's (aka Minister Dum-dum's)performance and lack of knowledge about his file meant his press secretary…
Thoughts on the political circus around Attawapiskat
Sometimes you have to laugh, or cry. Today I did a bit of both. Minister Duncan’s (aka Minister Dum-dum’s)performance and lack of knowledge about his file meant his press secretary…
Thoughts on the political circus around Attawapiskat
Sometimes you have to laugh, or cry. Today I did a bit of both. Minister Duncan's (aka Minister Dum-dum's)performance and lack of knowledge about his file meant his press secretary…
Thoughts on the political circus around Attawapiskat
Sometimes you have to laugh, or cry. Today I did a bit of both. Minister Duncan’s (aka Minister Dum-dum’s)performance and lack of knowledge about his file meant his press secretary…
They’re Going To Do WHAT???
The McGuinty Liberals are going to allow mining in Temagami, by a company from freakin’ CALGARY? That’s sacred ground up there, where Bob Rae put it all on the line…
Harper stands by McKay amid calls for his resignation
Canada's Defence Minister Peter McKay Some things have become clear in the past week with regards to the helicopter flight Defence Minister Peter McKay took in July 2010. McKay was…
ON Premier Dalton McGuinty rumoured for federal Liberal leadership
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty may be publicly dismissing any interest he may have in running for the federal Liberal top job, but sources close to the…
Is Bob Rae the Liberals next Keith Davey?
Senator Keith Davey chats with Prime Minister and Pierre Trudeau in this 1976 photo. Peter C. Newman’s latest book When the Gods Changed: The Death of Liberal Canada was supposed…