Flight
I’d suggest people watch “Flight” if you like deep movies about alcoholism. You might end up cheering for the drunk and feeling bad for doing so.
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Kathleen FTW
Convention was crazy. I know I said I would liveblog when I could, but it all just went too fast. Sitting down and writing in the face of all that…
Convention floor update
I’ve been at the convention going on 12 hours – tired feet, hungry, etc. – but no one’s going home yet. After the second ballot results were announced, in which…
Convention floor update
Eric Hoskins went to Kathleen Wynne. Many of Eric’s delegates came to Sandra – I helped greet them – and were happy to be there! Minutes later, Harinder Takhar moved…
Why is Julian Assange Trapped in Ecuador’s Embassy
People may not know exactly why Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange has been detained in the UK, then trapped in Ecuador’s embassy. The short answer is, because he embarrassed the US…
From the Windsor Star: Delegates looking long term
Team Wynne, for the last several days, has been insisting at every opportunity that she should be Premier because she a) has a seat and b) would reopen the Legislature…
The best of times, the worst of times, etc
Political conventions tend to bring out the best of its party members – renewal, camaraderie, etc. But some of the worst, too. Like what happened last night. You may know…
Observations from #OLPLDR
Sometimes there are no words.
Sandra
I’ve been proudly volunteering on Sandra Pupatello’s campaign from the very beginning – which seems much longer ago than it actually is – and what I can tell you about…
P3s for Dummies: Part III — Fool us once, twice, fool us some more
Ontario has been leading the country in pursuing private deals to finance, develop and maintain public infrastructure projects, including a significant number of major hospital redevelopments. Last week we looked…
Convention kickoff!
Today’s a busy day! I was at MLG earlier to register for the Ontario Liberal Party convention and pick up some Sandra swag. Ran into Minister of Finance Dwight Duncan…
Newspaper Comments Highlight Canadian Racism
The comments sections on some newspapers and online news sites can be infamously bad. The Calgary Herald’s commenters, many of them frequent enough to be “top commenters”, put on a…
Ethnic profiling has no place in the Ontario Liberal Party
If you’re a member of the Ontario Liberal Party, you have been bombarded in recent weeks with emails, campaign literature and phone calls. It’s a part of any campaign and…
Liberals. We’re big on policy.
This past weekend, at the Liberal Party of Canada in British Columbia policy conference, we passed many important progressive policy resolutions. Instead of doing the typical partisan thing and talking…
Excited for OLP!
After some fear that the Ontario Liberal Party would be excluding us blog heads from #olpldr, mercifully we’re going to be strongly represented there. Much I will live tweet, but…
Throw National Post a Lifeline
I haven’t encountered a Kelly McParland article that I can say I agree with. His latest, about Elizabeth May’s attempt to subvert the stalemate in Parliament amongst the opposition parties,…
Refugee Health: Medical students freeze outside waiting for Matthews
There were hard lessons learned today about how democracy is practiced in this province. About 60-70 protesters, most young medical students, spent more than an hour and a half today…