Big Tent The Liberal Party of Canada in Alberta will be holding its annual convention this weekend and for the first time in years, there’s actually a legitimate policy discussion going on (The past few years has been devoted to instructional workshops such as “101 ways to take over a riding association” and “sucking up […]

Hanging Chads I encourage everyone to read up on this story that will likely get shuffled away by the local media. The Readers Digest version is as follows: Liberal Chris Kibermanis got more votes than his Conservative opponent in Edmonton-Castle Downs during last fall’s election. He won three appeals to verify that he got the […]

TGIM In addition to a hilarious rant on Canada giving foreign aid to China (“Maybe we should give the 60 million to the Sudan since, you know, they don’t have a space program”), Rick Mercer took a few shots at Stephen Harper’s Same Sex Marriage adds on tonight’s Monday Report. It’s not Doris Day funny, […]

Around the World in 80 Hours Adrienne Clarkson is once again being blasted in Alberta. This time, it’s for missing Lieutenant Governor Lois Hole’s funeral. Is there anyone else out there who finds this whole story a little ironic? Last fall, Clarkson gets lambasted for her travel expenses and has her budget slashed. Now, she’s […]

Free Car!!! In an effort to make amends with any proponents of the “traditional definition of marriage” (to clarify: Not the “traditional” definition in the biblical sense of having multiple wives, or not the 19th century “traditional” definition in the sense of a man’s wife being property, or not the early 20th century “traditional” definition […]

Quick Hits 1. The latest jibjab video is out. As expected, it’s pretty darn funny 2. The subject of that video was inaugurated today. His main pledge – to export freedom and liberty to the world. How’s…that…working…out…for…you…so…far…? 3. It appears Warren Kinsella will be appearing before the Gomery commission this Friday. It’ll make for interesting […]

Don’t Mind Me, I’m Just the PM Damn that Paul Wells and his quick posting – I was all set to go off on the ridiculous comments by Paul Martin in today’s Globe & Mail when I see he beat me to the punch. The story reads like something out of the Onion: New Delhi […]

They Dislike Me! They Really Dislike Me! In other news, Ralph Klein has cracked the “top 10 most disliked Canadians”. Courtesy of the Edmonton Journal, the winners from the Maclean’s survey are: 1. Paul Martin 2. Jean Chretien 3. Brian Mulroney 4. Don Cherry 5. Stephen Harper 6. Jean Charest 7. Ralph Klein 8. Bernard […]

Gay Bomb This is too funny. I can just picture the ethical discussions going on at the White House. “Well…I’m all for bombing them, but…” “Make ’em queers? We’d lose our ‘family values’ voters.”

The Envelope Please I was really surprised with a lot of the winners for the Canadian blog awards; mainly since I stick to the political blogs. But, of the political blogs, I can’t argue with any of the winners: congrats, and keep up the good work! This site finished sixth for “best Liberal blog”, one […]