The Alberta Liberal Party: Shooting Ourselves in the Foot for Nearly a Century Grit MLA goes independent Dave Taylor, the party’s former deputy leader, the Calgary MLA many Liberals wanted as their top gun 16 months ago, will sit as an independent beginning Monday. He is fed up with the Liberals as the main opposition […]

Gilles Duceppe will no doubt say a lot of really dumb things on his “I Hate Canada Cross-Canada Tour“. But so far, the dumbest comments have come from those reacting to it. First up, the NDP: The NDP, meanwhile, is taking issue with Mr. Duceppe’s tour – and his meeting with Mr. Flanagan. “While the […]

Guergis out: April 9, 2010 This morning, I tendered my resignation as Minister of State for Status of Women to the Prime Minister which he accepted. The past 9 months have been a very difficult time for me. I have made mistakes for which I have apologised. I want the people of PEI to know […]

I don’t really have much to say, I just wanted to get the search engine hits from the above title. But if you do want to read all the details of Rahim Jaffer’s arrest, the Toronto Star dishes the dirt. This has set off another round of calls to punt Helena Guergis – personally, I’m […]

After a decade of non-stop tax cuts, the pendulum may be starting to swing in the other direction. In today’s Nova Scotia budget, Darrell Dexter has proposed a 2 point HST hike. This comes on the heels of Jean Charest’s taxapalooza last week, and Michael Ignatieff’s promise to cancel corporate tax cuts. And even though […]

Today, a Calgary Grit exclusive, sure to be on the front pages of every Alberta daily tomorrow. My sources have learned that Edward Johnson, a long-time PC member, will be announcing his defection to the Wildrose Alliance this weekend. Johnson was the Bonnyville-Cold Lake riding association policy chair from 1996 to 1998, and was a […]

After the flack they got for the O Canada name-change stunt, I’m surprised they’d try this. But, then again, knowing this government’s rabid partisanship, nothing should surprise us anymore: Tories Propose Changes to Flag(CP) OTTAWA — The Conservative Party is set to introduce highly controversial legislation later today that would change the colour of the […]

Yesterday’s Quebec budget was one of the most toxic I’ve ever seen. Among the highlights: -Health Care taxes and user fees-A pair of 1% increases to the provincial sales tax-An increase to the fuel tax Ouch. Those can’t have been easy decisions to make, but given the debt load facing the province and a stubborn […]

As I mentioned briefly on Sunday, Ignatieff’s proposal to cancel the corporate tax cuts should form the main ideological fault line of the next election campaign. That’s not to say it’s all the election will be about – let’s not kid ourselves, we’re still going to get “Harper’s a dictator” and “Ignatieff’s just visiting” attack […]