DION LIBERALS MUST EXPLAIN THEIR TOTAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE CADMAN AFFAIR Follow the link and you’ll find 5 questions the Conservatives are “demanding” be answered. I agree -answers are needed. And with all these questions about the Liberal Party’s involvement in Cadscam, I’m sure Conservatives everywhere will agree that the only reasonable course of action […]

Lieutenant-General Walter Natynczyk will succeed charismatic and outspoken General Rick Hillier as the head of the Canadian Forces, the Harper government has announced.

I thought this was a joke when I saw some stories about it this morning, but if the CBC is posting it as news, I presume it’s true: One of this country’s most familiar tunes may have been heard on CBC-TV for the last time Wednesday night when the Detroit Red Wings defeated the Pittsburgh […]

OTTAWA–Finance Minister Jim Flaherty should be fired in the wake of General Motors saying it is closing its Oshawa truck plant, Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion says. GM’s announcement that it will shut the plant in 2009, throwing 2,000 people out of work, caused an uproar in both the House of Commons and the Ontario Legislature […]

Via Susan Delacourt: Those young-Liberal pranksters are at it again, circulating this photo as something spotted in the lost and found at Pier 21, a local Ottawa nightclub.

“The Liberal Party has been caught using a doctored tape to make serious criminal accusations against the Prime Minister of Canada on the eve of an expected election campaign,” said Tory MP James Moore. Woah. Did anyone else just have a weird flashback to the Gurmant Grewal incident which, I might add, happened the exact […]

Tonight will be “clinching night” for Obama, effectively ending the most exciting nomination race in US history. Whether or not Hillary acknowledges that remains to be seen. I’ll have updates here throughout the evening as the results roll in and the speeches are made. One expects talk will now turn towards finding a vice-presidential nominee […]

…announces her retirement from politics. Being a former NDP leader, one presumes this is just to set up her “comeback” in 5 or 10 years. I’m not familiar with the local dynamics, but one would imagine that this puts Halifax into play: 2006 Halifax Election ResultsMcDonough (NDP) 46.9%MacKinnon (Lib) 30.9%House (Con) 18%Wright (Green) 3.9%Seed (ML) […]

“In aiming to form government we should not reject who we are or what we believe in simply to win. We should not abandon the liberal philosophy as the foundation of our party. But our interpretation of that philosophy must change. Likewise, our organization must be made to be competitive. And our attitude both within […]

The Democrats have reached a compromise, giving Florida and Michigan half votes and splitting the Michigan delegation 69-59 in favour of Clinton. Immediately, some Clinton supporters and organizers have begun to raise the spectre of a challenge to this ruling at the convention – presumably to get an extra 4 half votes out of Michigan, […]