…come two of the most ridiculous political ads of the last decade. It’s one thing to take quotes and clips out of context. It’s another to take them out of context in the way Rick Mercer would. Just because you’re able to splice something together in 48 hours, and just because you have the money […]

From the government who brought you a Minister of Science who doesn’t believe in science, comes a (former) Foreign Affairs Minister who doesn’t believe in geography: Defence Minister Peter MacKay might want to give his old Grade 5 geography teacher a call for a brush-up. MacKay made a bit of a gaffe Tuesday night, when […]

From FFWD’s April 15th paper, last year: Whether other political parties will court Taylor remains to be seen. He has ruled out crossing the floor to another party before an election is called. “If I were to make a decision… then I would wait until the next election or resign and go through a byelection,” […]

So we’ve got the PCs with 67 MLAs. The Liberals with 8. The Wildrosers with 4. The NDP with 2. And Raj Sherman doing his own thing. And now, the Alberta Party joins the big leagues with their first MLA – former Liberal Dave Taylor. Opposition parties are quickly becoming Alberta’s largest industry, after oil […]

Five years ago, we all watched Stephen Harper become Prime Minister – an idea which seemed uterly ridiculous a mere 6 months earlier. Here’s what I wrote about that election last year in my moment of the decade series: For about two weeks, everyone who liked politics started talking in staccato: “There’s no mayonnaise. On […]

Hot off the presses, just 25 months after he was named party leader, it’s an introduction to Alberta’s leader of the opposition, David Swann. Notice the strong emphasis on Health Care in the video which, coupled with Swann taking over as ALP health critic in yesterday’s shuffle, certainly tells you what the ALP intends to […]

“Multiculturalism may be a Canadian value but it’s not a Quebec one. We haven’t signed the Constitution of Canada because it contains this notion of multiculturalism.” –Louise Beaudoin, PQ critic for secularism

We already know Stephen Harper can play a few songs on the piano. Today comes confirmation that Michael Ignatieff is able to skate. Next week, Jack Layton bakes a cake, to prove that he has what it takes to lead Canada. In all seriousness, this video is gold – not just because of the skating […]

Keith Davey, Liberal “Rainmaker” dies OTTAWA — Keith Davey, the former senator and legendary Liberal organizer, died peacefully on Monday morning, surrounded by his family in Toronto. He was 84. Known as the “Rainmaker” for his formidable, winning political strategies, Davey came to national prominence in the early 1960s, when he arrived in Ottawa to […]

According the Conservatives, Michael Ignatieff’s cross-country tour is a sign he wants to plunge the country into a divisive election, something Stephen Harper has consistently opposed ever since September 2008. So the Conservatives have responded the way they respond to, well, anything – by launching a new round of remixed Just Visiting attack ads. So […]