If you’re just tuning in now, well, I can see how you’d be a bit confused. This was the scene last January: And now we have a Conservative-socialist coalition, propped up by the separatists, passing that very same budget Jack was talking about above. And after being almost certain that we were heading into an […]

Remember Rahim Jaffer? Rahim Jaffer, husband of Simcoe-Grey MP Helena Guergis, has been charged with drunk driving and possession of cocaine. Police stopped Jaffer, a 37-year-old Angus resident, on Sept. 11 on Regional Road 50 in Palgrave. Caledon OPP say he was speeding through the village. Jaffer will be in Orangeville criminal court on Oct. […]

NDP to prop up Tories until EI money flows The NDP say they will vote to prop up the Conservative government this week and for some time – probably through the fall – if the Harper government follows through on promises to expand employment-insurance benefits. The New Democrats deputy leader, Thomas Mulcair, expressed his party’s […]

They have 1 MLA. They have no leader. They got under 7% of the popular vote in last year’s election. Their website is…lacking. No one really knows anything about them or what they stand for. They are the Wild Rose Alliance. And, after last night, you wouldn’t come across sounding like a crazy person if […]

You know, for a guy who claims now is not the time for an election, he sure seems awfully reluctant to actually, you know, do something to avoid said election: Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowed there would be no backroom deals with the NDP, but it appears the edict even extends to emails. The Globe […]

“”I’ve been a strong Conservative all my life like any normal Albertan,” voter Ellie Lucille Scott told CBC News. “But I think that people do need to be put on their toes a little bit and I think that’s the message I would like to see them get at this time.” Scott doesn’t work in […]

You may have already seen this one around, but Environmental Defence has released a “Just Visiting” spoof, in honour of Harper’s Obama photo-op tomorrow.

I have reluctantly become a twitterite and can be followed here: www.twitter.com/calgarygrit I’m not sure I necessarily understand twitter or what purpose it actually serves, but the fear of being labelled a Luddite by the blogging community is just too strong, so I caved.

Yeah, yeah, by-elections are meaningless. The Alberta PCs lost the Elbow by election in 2007 and a year later, they swept the province, winning 70 seats. But it’s hard for them to not be at least a little worried by what’s going on tonight. With 56 of 66 polls reporting: Hinman (Wild Rose Alliance): 3,261Roberts […]

One year ago: “I just believe the math. The math is such that it is extremely difficult for any political party to win a majority,” said Harper, who later chiding Dion for predicting that the Liberals could win a majority. Now: In a closed meeting, held last week in Sault Ste. Marie, Prime Minister Stephen […]