The new Rhinocerous government’s throne speech was read today and it was…about what you’d expect. James Bow has all the other news from their first days in office, while Chucker Canuck speculates on the Tory leadership race, after Harper’s resignation and James Moore being named interim leader. I heard from a friend who works (or…I […]

With a lot of Canadians restless and a rare August vote, the results of tonight’s vote are certainly up in the air. Safe to say, we’re in for a third straight minority government but, despite the latest polls, I think Dion might be able to surprise a few people and eek it out if the […]

-James Bow has a good run-down on how campaign ’08 has progressed and Greg Staples has the latest poll numbers up. I’ll be joining several other bloggers to live blog the results as they come in tonight so tune in for what promises to be an eventful election! -In the Greatest Premier contest, it’s Manning […]

Tories broke regulations on election finances, Liberals sayGLORIA GALLOWAYFrom Friday’s Globe and MailAugust 24, 2007 at 4:02 AM EDT OTTAWA — The Liberals accused the federal Conservatives yesterday of exceeding election spending limits by more than a million dollars in the final days of the 2006 campaign by passing off national advertising costs as money […]

Schools and language causing divisions. My, how our country has come a long way in the last hundred years.

…when election speculation starts up. The Bloc threatening to bring Harper down over Afghanistan while the Dippers promise to vote against the Throne Speech over Kyoto. Which means we’re in for two months of speculation about “who blinks”.

Yeah, yeah, it’s got a massive right wing bent. But, what the heck – they’ve got Ben Mulroney on the list so it can’t be all bad. The 101 People Screwing up Canada blog has counted down from 101 to 2. So, as an open question, who would you pick as your top 5 or […]

I signed some papers on Tuesday to help the Wild Rose Party get sanctioned. This was purely in a bid to help strengthen democracy and had nothing to do with my desire to see a competitive right wing party capable to stealing votes from the PCs burst onto the scene. I figured with a credible […]

The Globe & Mail has an article on Government of Canada computers being used to edit wikipedia entries, thus altering reality. Given the amount of editing that happens on Afghanistan memos by this government, that’s not too surprising. Most of the edits are fairly mundane – Jason Kenney and Dan McTeague have criticism replaced with […]

Does Nunavik constitute a nation within a unified Quebec? Would Jean Charest be willing to recognize them as such in the National Assembly?