The Harper government will introduce an unusual confidence motion as early as Monday demanding that the Senate pass the Conservative’s crime bill by March 1. The motion, which puts the Opposition Liberals in an awkward and potentially embarrassing situation, could trigger an election if it fails in the House of Commons. The vote could come […]

I’m sure they’ll get some competition from stelmachvacations.com, but all the best Tory MLA travel deals can be found here!

Just like blogger predictions were far more accurate than anything you saw in the mainstream media during the Liberal leadership race, this analysis of Super Tuesday states is ten times more in depth than anything you’ll find in any newspaper or on CNN. If you have some time to kill, it’s worth a read. If […]

Lost: The freedom this Afghanistan mission was supposed to bring. This is really quite shocking (hat tip JBG): A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country’s rulers. This is Afghanistan – not in […]

So McCain takes Florida, Giuliani is expected to endorse him, and polls show McCain poised to rack up the delegates on Super Tuesday. It’s going to take an awful lot to knock this train off the tracks. Things are a bit murkier on the Democratic side. But with a McCain-Obama showdown certainly possible, is anyone […]

You’ve probably already seen this on a few other Liblog sites, but I got a real kick out of it.

Stephen Harper is going to have to chew you out for not going far enough: OTTAWA, CALGARY — Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach is at odds with the federal government and on a collision course with other premiers after the release yesterday of his long-anticipated climate-change plan. On the eve of an expected election call, Mr. […]

Yes, yes, Ellen Page and the girl from Road to Avonlea got Oscar nominations. Well, La-de–da. The more exciting nomination news to be announced yesterday was for the Canadian Blog Awards. While I doubt I will be much of a match for the Small Dead Animals vote-stacking machine or the Daveberta facebook group in the […]

Today marks the two year anniversary of Stephen Harper’s election win. This is notable because nobody thought his minority government would last this long. Only one has lasted longer since World War II and no Tory minority had ever even celebrated a one year birthday before. Hell, I remember the media stories about the PMO […]

First of all, kudos to Stephen Harper for his wickedly brilliant selection of John Manley to chair this panel. I know, I know, the tendency is always to assume everything Harper does is some sort of evil strategic ganius coup de force but his time it really is, for reasons that a lot of other […]