Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat OK, OK. Maybe it should read “avoiding armageddon”. Irrespective, the Conservative Party can likely feel pretty good about how the convention turned out. Yes, there were lots of things that went poorly. Peter MacKay threw a hissy fit on Friday as old cracks showed. Stephen Harper kicked a […]

Perpetual Opposition Why are the Liberals Canada’s “Government Party” and not the Tories? Here’s a reason. It’s not too surprising. This PC/Alliance marriage always had a “Britney Spears wedding” feeling to it.

Caught in the Web A look around the net… -I’ve updated my blogroll. One of the new blogs in the Alberta Politics section is Daveberta who has a great letter to Paul Jackson. Unfortunately, it’s well thought out and logical so it’ll pass right over Jackson’s head. -Scott Tribe, who I’ve always felt is the […]

Policy Wonks I’ve been talking to a few of my Tory friends and have managed to get my hands on a few of the policy resolutions that will be debated this weekend in Montreal: Be it Resolved that Party debt will be financed by selling TV rights to the reality TV event of the year […]

Devil’s Advocate The general consensus among the pundits is that this was a very bad week for Stephen Harper. His mass abstention on the budget was ridiculed and he was criticized for his talk of closing down debate on social issues at the Conservative convention, before he reversed this decision. I’ll stick up for him […]

The Full Monte The latest buzz to hit the blogsphere is of Monte Solberg’s controversial post from last weekend which you can read here. Jim Elve and TDH Strategies both have well thought out takes on the “controversy”. My view? I don’t think the post in question is funny. I don’t think it’s clever. And […]

Useless Speculation If there’s one constant at all conventions, it’s that it gives political hacks a chance to indulge in their favourite activity: mindless speculation. It always amazes me how confident political junkies are when they start speculating ahead. Be it on leadership candidates, election timing, or electoral results, everybody is always absolutely positive about […]

The Jean Lapierre Moment of the Convention During his speech on Friday night he said, and I quote, word for word: “The Bloc won those seats in Quebec by accident”.

He’s No Bono… I made sure to pay close attention to Michael Ignatief’s speech on Thursday, given some of the quiet whispers about leadership ambitions he might have. Right from the start, he teased the audience a bit by saying “Academics are smart, but they lack good, sound, political judgment”, before he went on to […]

Time for an Audit As has been widely announced, 88% of Liberals voted for Martin on the leadership endorsement, as they called it at the convention. This is about what I expected since I talked to a lot of Liberals at the convention who said they would have voted “yes” for a convention if it […]