Time for Reflection
We live in an interesting time, and not always for the best reasons. Let’s face it, 2019 has been a crazy year and 2020 doesn’t promise to be much better.…
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The Shifting Red Chamber
As we start to go into our new reality of minority government in Canada, there are many things that many observers need to pay attention to in order to stay…
A Ten Year Old’s Angst-Ridden Journey Through The Nuclear Fall of 1983 (And Why The Day After Still Terrifies Me)
It happens to me every fall. The leaves change colour and fall, the trees take on an ominous look, and once again I am filled with an existential dread that…
Green Fade
Now that we have entered into November and with a couple of weeks before the Liberals name their new cabinet, the parties are starting to put the pieces back together.…
WEXIT: Assessing the Costs
Andrew Scheer, Jason Kenney, Scott Moe: Canada’s Three Wexiteers, all clamouring for something that they don’t own.
Behind Chile’s political crisis
More than one million people marched in Santiago on October 26 to protest the Government’s security response to Chile’s current political crisis and to demand structural economic reforms to reduce…
Strategic Considerations
With the 43rd General Election now a week in our collective rear view mirrors, many people are doing a lot of thinking about what happened during the campaign and what…
Talking the Return of the Ontario Legislature & Federal Leadership talk with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I had the chance to join Kristy Cameron on “Ottawa Now” on CFRA with Kate Harrison and Shane Mackenzie. We talked about the return of the Ontario Legislature, the…
Wexit, Canada, Norway and $1.4 Trillion
I snapped this quote the other day and wanted to share it: I’m putting this here for a LOT of reasons. $1.3 trillion reasons. That’s right: the Government Pension Fund…
What You Need to Know – The End of #Elxn43
The newest episode of “What You Need to Know” is recorded and now up. Every Friday Bluesky Strategy Group will be releasing a new episode where we’ll talk about the…
Orange Post-mortem
It’s been a few days now since the 43rd General Election came to an end and we’ve started to come to terms with our new political reality. We’ve got a…
Talking The Day After #Elxn43 with Graham Richardson
Yesterday I had the chance to join Graham Richardson on CFRA’s “News and Views”, along John Delacourt and Garry Kellar. We talked the results of the 43rd General Election, the…
The Morning After: #Elxn43
Well after 40 days and 40 nights of the 43rd General Election, we now know what the next little while will look like. The broad strokes of the results last…
Talking Election Day & The End of #Elxn43 with Evan Solomon
This afternoon I had the chance to join Evan Solomon on “The Evan Solomon Show” with Jenni Byrne and Shane Mackenzie. Today we talked about Election Day, the end of…
Talking Election Day & The End of #Elxn43 on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I had the chance again to join Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We talked Election Day,…
E-Day 2019
Election Day is finally here folks. Congrats for making to the end of this after finally after all of this we’ll finally know what our next Parliament will look like.…
Will This Story Be Big Enough By Monday Morning?
The 2019 election just went from boring to outrageous.
Why Minority Governments Are Representative of Democracy In Action
Minorities are good. Minority governments are even BETTER. Let’s demand that if we get one on Monday, representatives can’t just toss in the towel after a couple of weeks of…
A Scheer Abundance of Lies
A collection of lies spread by Andrew Scheer and the Conservative Party of Canada over the course of the 2019 election campaign.
Talking the Last Few Days of #Elxn43 with Bill Carroll
This afternoon I had the chance to join Bill Carroll on “The Bill Carroll Show” with Jason Lietaer and Lindsay Maskell. Today e talked about the last week of the…