The Big Guy Speaks There’s not a lot I can add about the PM’s Friday night speech. By now, most Canadians have heard a few of Paul’s speeches, and this one wasn’t remarkable in any ways (but, then again, are any of them?). I did find it better than his acceptance speech when he won […]

Dream TeamOne of the interesting events of the weekend was the accountability session where the Prime Minister fielded questions from the floor and then picked on a lucky Cabinet Minister to answer the question. After a few laughable questions early on of the variety “I love what you’ve done Paul, Canadians adore this program but, […]

Promises Made, Promises Kept Got back into town last night after what was a fairly uneventful Liberal convention. Despite this, I promised an update, and the theme of the convention was “Promises Made, Promises Kept”, so I’ll throw a few posts up. In general, it was probably lower attended than past policy conventions, but the […]

Bon Voyage I’m off to Ottawa for the Liberal convention in about an hour. If I have internet access in my hotel, there will be frequent updates. If not, then, I wouldn’t expect a heck of a lot. I’ve glanced through the resolutions being debated quickly and, among the highlights: -Anti-BMD: Not sure if this […]

Taking One for the Team Alex Himelfarb, whose job depends on Paul Martin’s good graces and therefore has no real reason to make the PM look bad, dropped this fun little tid-bit of news yesterday at round 2 of the Gomery Inquiry, which has now moved from Salem to Montreal. Apparently, Chretien offered to take […]

Follow the Leader It’s not surprising that Liberal leadership talk has heated up a bit heading into this week’s convention. No one is organizing to take Paul out (not enough MacBeth readers among leadership candidates) as most are willing to look past his disappointing tenure as PM and remember his years of undivided and unquestionable […]

Perpetual Opposition Here’s a press release from the provincial Liberals. Lots of good ideas in the bunch. Heck, if the federal Libs can steal Tory and NDP ideas, maybe Klein can peg off a few of these. The province would be better off if he did. Liberal Opposition Committing to Alberta’s Future Edmonton – A […]

20 Questions First of all, I think we made the right call on Star Wars, for the reasons previously discussed. But the PM’s handling of this has been a little awkward, to put it mildly. Now that we finally know Canada won’t be a part of missile defense, a few questions need answering. The first […]

A New Strategy It was very interesting to see the opposition parties react to today’s budget. In the past you could count on the “Progressive Reform Alliance of Conservatives” to scream the budget was too far left and the “Nouveau Bloc Democratique” to complain the budget was too far right. The end result? Everyone sees […]

So Where Does Ann Coulter Fit on the Scale? Courtesy of the Daily Telegraph and an astute reader of this blog, comes this absolutely hilarious story about the US judicial system. Here’s the lead: Psychiatrists devise ‘depravity rating’ to help courts decide on death sentencesBy Charles Laurence in New York(Filed: 20/02/2005) A “depravity rating” that […]