With the Writers Guild of American (or, NAMBLA) on strike for two weeks, the Daily Show, Colbert Report, and other late night talk shows have been on reruns. While this does open up the opportunity for spending your nights doing more productive things like reading or…sleep, I know a lot of people are missing the […]

One imagines this blog will be quite interesting over the next few months…

In QP today, Harper said he couldn’t answer questions on the possible extradition of Schreiber because it’s the Minister of Justice’s decision. Uh-huh. The Prime Minister who won’t let his Ministers choose long distance carriers without vetting their choice through the PMO isn’t going to get involved in managing the biggest scandal to hit his […]

After seven pages of coverage in today’s Globe, I’m sure everyone has already heard about Harper’s call for a probe into the Mulroney airbus affair by an independent third party (maybe they’ll bring Bernard Roy back due to his experience at the Gomery inquiry…). I’ll give Harper credit for doing the right thing here. Given […]

Thanks to the alert readers who sent in a few recent links from the Calgary Herald that, I think, illustrate some of the problems with journalism in Canada these days. First up, comes their Wednesday editorial: For example, we have always suspected the integrity of polls in which newspaper readers tell us they are more […]

THE MORNING AFTER UPDATE: Sask Party: 52.2%, 37 seatsNDP: 36.2%, 21 seatsLiberals: 9.3%, 0 seatsGreens: 2.0%, 0 seats And, for those paying attention, the Progressive Conservatives (812 votes) edged out the Western Independence Party (569 votes), and the Marijuana Party (508 votes) for fifth. Yet again, the Marijuana Party fails to mobilize it’s vote… So, […]

I know there’s no rule that says I have to post every few days here but I kind of feel I should put something up. Unfortunately, the only real newsworthy story out there right now is…gulp…Jack Layton’s musings on the Senate. So it is with great reluctance that I link to Layton’s call for a […]

The Tories have been quietly nixing candidates from running for them in the next election. Now, don’t get me wrong – Bill Casey voted against the budget and there should be consequences for that. He knew what he was getting into so it’s hard to shed too many tears for him…especially considering he’s got a […]

Kady O’Malley has the full run down of Halloween in Ottawa (including Harper’s witty “man in the brown suit” costume). Although he dressed as Laurier, Dion did did provide a big scare to Liberal backbenchers by musing about raising the GST. It’s probably not a smart thing to go around talking about something like that […]

It’s interesting to see the Tories rush what would have been a good news spring budget up to October and take a 1% GST cut out of their next election platform by bringing it in now. I suppose with money to burn and Dion calling for tax cuts, it was inevitable that Flaherty would be […]