According to a recent Forum Research survey, Tim Hudak's conservatives were getting a 41% approval rating from Ontarians, while the Liberals were somewhere around 26%, the NDP at 22% and…
In America, the Book, Samantha Bee half-jokingly wrote that Canadians were too polite to cause a fuss over our redundant Senate. Seemingly, the times have changed. Senate reform has recently…
After their Sunday convention, the NDP exposed, perhaps unwillingly, some deep identity rifts within the party over the use of the word socialism. For now, the party will keep the…
If you haven’t already heard, Ed Broadbent has stated he’ll be starting a think tank (named after himself, even) in the fall. It’s a smart move–a move that the conservatives…
James -- It was a privilege to chair today’s Extraordinary Convention. Along with Convention Returning Officer Beatrice Raffoul and General Secretary Ian McKay, I would like to extend our thanks…
There are certain principles that an individual cannot break, no matter what the situation is. Principles like, I can never kill anyone unless its in self-defense or I will never…
If anything, this recent Tory convention in Ottawa made visible some apparent weaknesses in the conservative party, internally and on questions of policy. From voting against the creation of a…
“The essential message that I bring to the House and to the people of Canada about this budget is that it is not a budget for everyone. It is not…
With the new seats coming federally in the House of Commons to the economic seat of Canada–Alberta–the province will finally get a more reasonable level of representation. No longer will…
The conservatives in Ottawa today, gathered for their party's policy convention, arrogant and ignorant as always, defeated a motion to create a youth wing for the party. Apparently, the argument…
When the Auditor General first reported about the gun registry, she told Canadians that "What's really inexcusable is that Parliament was in the dark" about the cost of building the…
Politics Reimagined: Mark Holland from Corey Hogan on Vimeo. This is a tremendous speech. The part I thought was most insightful was the need to make the Liberal Party “open…
Politics Reimagined: Mark Holland from Corey Hogan on Vimeo. (Reposted from NewLiberal.ca) I had the pleasure of sitting just offside to Mr. Holland while he made his speech. Just watch…
1. John Alexander Macdonald – Amazing Specialist 2. Alexander Mackenzie – Insane Hunter 3. John Abbott – Respected Wizard 4. John Sparrow David Thompson – Dynamic Desperado 5. Mackenzie Bowell…
As previously stated by many liberal bloggers the Conservatives now dominate the rich west, where most of their votes, that put them in a majority government, came from, the NDP…
Some thoughts on Brigette DePape: I don’t like Stephen Harper or his government but I also think that what Ms. DePape did was stupid. What she did during the June…
It's a debate you'd expect to hear at a party like this one. But it's one being hoisted upon us by the Liberal Party, which only makes it more absurd.…
Since the media began filing their weekend wrap up coverage of the Alberta Liberal Party Convention, a number of pundits have weighed in on the party's decision to run a…
I think most people would agree that the stereotypical native-American, the one that despises the white man, hates taxation and the federal government in general, and probably lives on a…
