Why is Ontario buying into by-elections?
By-elections are sometimes fun but the five coming up in Ontario will be a serious waste of time and money. Why are we doing it? What will we prove? All…
Provincial Politics
Babel backs a ballot bollix.
A year ago, there was an interesting meeting with the City Clerk in Babel. A very charming and knowledgeable person, she was generous with her time and interested in the…
Harper’s homeboy, Hudak.
Ontario television viewers saw a new attack advertisement the other day. It looked like another attack advertisement by the Conservatives. And it was. It was just not by the federal…
A thoughtful farewell to Bob Rae.
This is not a form of eulogy. We will probably have Bob Rae to kick around for some time to come. He was never our favourite Premier of Ontario. He…
It’s All About the Money
Almost every council decision comes with the subtext question, “Can we afford it?” Everything not procedural or administrative is usually about the cost. Who pays, whose budget does it come…
Tim Hudak is not always wrong.
Just because you wish someone was not there does not make him go away. It is almost as though Kathleen Wynne and her Ontario Liberals do not know what to…
The open government report
On Monday’s agenda, council received a 21-page report from the clerk on the nature and mechanics of open government in Collingwood. This comprehensive report, titled the “Accountability and Transparency Policy,”…
My Three Things for Calgary
Nenshi and the City of Calgary, over the last year, have pushed a very central theme on how we can make Calgary a better place. It’s simple. If we do…
Raj Rescues Folks in Rollover
Earlier today Raj Sherman help rescue three people who had rolled off the road on Highway 2 (Calgary Herald). This is one of the reasons why I really like Raj…
RE: Rae calls for end to turf wars
Last night I was sent a link to an article in the Winipeg Free Press about Bob Rae calling out Liberal cliques, Liberal navel gazing, and turf wars. The Globe…
Nothing has changed with Allison Redford. Just more of the tired Tories, political hackery, broken promises, and failed leadership.
Nothing has changed with Allison Redford. There has been no change: just more the same tired Tories. Raj Sherman has been proved right by an independent report by the Health…
Believe it or not, the bureaucrats don’t always make things better…
So the ongoing saga of how Elections Ontario did everything but make elections easy in the riding of Simcoe-Grey continues. As writer Kristen Smith detailed two weeks ago in the…
Nottawa residents shafted by Elections Ontario
So this week, the crack news team at the Enterprise-Bulletin has been following up on this business of Nottawa residents having to traverse to Ravenna in order to exercise their…
So.. I’m Not A Liberal Now?
So.. I’m not a Liberal now? Every single time someone takes a potshot at Raj Sherman for his political past it’s an affront to me. He was a federal Liberal…
I’m so bored with blogging, I can’t even be bothered to come up with a title…
OK, so it’s not so much that blogging is, like, so 2008, but that I’ve been tremendously busy between work, paddling, and working out. But now that paddling is pretty…
Big Red Machine Beatdown!
Come to PEI, and travel back to a simpler time… Here’s a fun fact about PEI. If Ontario had the same ratio of MLAs to population, its provincial legislature would…
Lets Raj and Roll: I’m Excited
Last Saturday Raj Sherman was elected as Alberta Liberal Leader. On Monday he was brought in, officially, to the Alberta Liberal caucus. A quick media scan: ] Curiously, on the…
Alberta Liberal Leadership Survey: Bruce Payne
Introduce Yourself (Part I) ] Leadership (Part II) ] Issues (Part III) ]
(4) The Challenge: Learning to repeat ourselves: The Four Challenges to the Alberta Liberal Party
There are challenges to the Alberta Liberal Party forming government in Alberta. In this series of posts I’ll write about some of the challenges that Liberals face in this province…
(3) The Challenge: The Media Hates Us: The Four Challenges to the Alberta Liberal Party
There are challenges to the Alberta Liberal Party forming government in Alberta. In this series of posts I’ll write about some of the challenges that Liberals face in this province…