Not an April Fools Joke… …at least I presume not. If it is, it’s pretty funny. TDH is reporting that Glen Clark and Mike Harcourt will run for the Liberals in BC in the next federal election. I guess the BC wing of the party is trying to corner the market on disgraced BC Premiers. […]

Clamming DownGood on Canada for finally flexing our muscles a bit towards the US. However, since this is Canada, we’re flexing our pinky finger: OTTAWA: Canada is slapping-millions of dollars worth of sanctions on U.S. imports in retaliation for a lingering trade irritant. The announcement of a 15 per cent surtax on cigarettes, oysters and […]

Patience is a Virtue Boy, the media loves election speculation, don’t they? I mentioned this earlier and it appears the Tories will do everything to avert the crisis. But since everyone loves to speculate, here are 20 reasons Stephen Harper should do everything in his power to make sure the government doesn’t fall on the […]

Ralph’s World Welcome to this installment of the “Wacky Adventures of Ralph”. First off, Ralph Klein was in Washington last week and took his opportunity on the world’s largest stage to… call Mackenzie King a pervert. Yes, sometimes you can’t make these things up. Mackenzie King was certainly weird, but a pervert? Ralph is also […]

Bonus Advice Steve; There’s only one thing that could possibly be worse than triggering an election over the Kyoto Accord, a popular piece of legislation in Ontario and Quebec. And that would be triggering an election over a budget that you said wasn’t worth triggering an election over. Come on! Even Joe Clark has better […]

Advice for Stephen Harper – Deux One of the first posts I did for this blog last year was “Advice for Stephen Harper” so I thought I’d give it another go, a year later. Despite having so many things going for him, Harper has yet to give Conservatives any hope that he’ll ever be Prime […]

Headwaiter to the Provinces Courtesy of Inkless Wells comes the news that Quebec has completed it’s foreign policy review. Waaaaaaaaaaaaa? You know, I remember last fall when the joke being passed around by those against asymmetrical federalism was that Quebec would be deciding Canada’s foreign affairs. I think Paul Wells even wrote a satire piece […]

So long, farewell, Auf wiedersehn, good night… Courtesy of Rick Mercer’s Monday Report, Canada bids Adieu to Paul Celluci.

Burning Money In case you missed it, Alberta is pumping more cash into fighting gay marriage – $110,000 and counting. You know, Conservatives whine and whine about Liberals wasting money but we’ve seen million spent on a Senate election which won’t elect Senators and now more money going into a legal fight they know they’ll […]

From the Horse’s Mouth Here’s what Conservative bloggers are writing about their convention: Monte Solberg:“Reports circulated through the Conservative Convention on Friday that Stephen Harper had “kicked” a chair sometime during the afternoon. PMO spokesman Scott Reid said that this is proof that Harper has a hidden agenda, “if Harper was elected Prime Minister none […]