UPDATE: It appears the letter posted yesterday was an earlier draft of a Calgary Nose Hill fundraising letter. Kudos to SJ and the team there for thinking outside the box on this one. Here’s the full version: From: Conservative HeadquartersTo: Conservative CandidatesDate: December 2, 2005Subject: Urgent Request Dearest Candidate, Good morning, how are you and […]

This should be fun: Debate opens tomorrow on this Bloc Québécois motion: Que la Chambre exprime sa pleine et entière confiance envers Élections Canada et le Commissaire aux élections fédérales. That this House express its complete confidence in Elections Canada and the Federal Elections Commissioner (Inkless translation — ed.). Say what you will about the […]

Via the Liberal mole, this landed in my in box this morning – full details of the “Elections Canada conspiracy” that has been hinted at by Fox Mulder and anonymous Conservative Party officials all week long:

Random links from the past few weeks as I clean out my “mildly interesting blog stuff” folder. 1. Fast Company has an article on the Obama’s branding and use of the internet (apparently Liberal caucus each got a copy). 2. From where the internet works to where it doesn’t. This study shows that e-mail fails […]

I know a lot of Tories read this blog so maybe they can help explain to me what the hell “strategic genius” Stephen Harper was thinking when he invited select media personalities to a series of hotel rooms a private spin session on Sunday? First of all, assuming reporters are going to keep a private […]

By good buddy “Ron” Anders has broken free of his muzzle and is in the news for comparing the Beijing Olympics to the 1936 Berlin Olympics: Anders, an outspoken critic of the Chinese government, said Thursday that Beijing was the wrong choice to host the Olympics. “I absolutely 100 per cent think it compares to […]

Aaron Wherry digs up this gem of an old letter some guy named Stephen Harper wrote back in 2001. In it, Harper: A) says “the jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control” B) Criticizes Elections Canada for ordering an RCMP raid C) Rails against election spending limits D) Blames the Prime Minister at the […]

For those of you lucky enough to get TVO, I’ll be on “The Agenda with Steve Paiken” tonight (8 pm, 11 pm, and, best of all, 5 am), as part of a panel discussing the state of the Liberal Party. Video and podcast will be up on this page after the fact.

Boy, it must be tough to be a Tory. I mean, they have the Senate, the entire judiciary, the civil service, the CBC, the media, and now, the officials at Elections Canada appointed by Harper himself all working against them. It’s amazing they ever won an election in the face of all this adversity! Just […]

The RCMP were in and out of Conservative HQ today, helping Elections Canada obtain documents one assumes were related to the most-complicated-scandal-in-the-history-of-politics (also known as the catchier “in and out scandal”, explained here in 30 seconds). We still don’t know much about this raid or the status of the investigation but it looks like this […]