I’m sure you’ve all been intensely following the Nova Scotia election (ha ha!). If you haven’t, well, it might be worth at least glancing at tonight’s results, because Nova Scotia is poised to become Canada’s fifth province to succumb to the socialist hordes. The latest polls have Darrell Dexter’s NDP (campaign poster to the left) […]

“I can’t. I’d love to, but I can’t. That’ll be a career-limiting move, as we would say.”-Lisa Raitt, on tape Speaking of career-limiting moves, the Rait tape is now public. There’s a good lesson for all you political staffers out there, in that you should never accidentally audio tape private conversations with your boss. And, […]

Apparently one politician doesn’t like another politician. And there’s tape to prove it! For those just tuning in now, Lisa Raitt is in more trouble, with the Chronicle Herald set to release a “damaging” tape of her bad mouthing Minister of Health Leona Aglukkaq (yes, I had to look the spelling up), after a failed […]

Corey Hogan is in. George Dadamo is out, presumably to run municipally in Calgary. Other candidates can still declare for the Liberal nomination by June 8th, but you have to figure that Hogan (the campaign manager of Dave Taylor’s ALP bid) would have the edge over any other challengers. So how would Mr. Hogan fare? […]

Sent out by the NDP on Tuesday. I’m sure President Obama will be eternally grateful for Jack’s “help”… Dear Friend, Today, Jack Layton flies to Washington D.C. to help President Obama in his fight for universal health care. And to fight to protect our cherished Medicare back here in Canada. It’s an important few days, […]

Tid-bits from Ontario’s PC leadership race: 1) A poll of Conservative voters in Ontario shows Christine Elliott in the lead. 2) In a poll among actual PC members, leaked by the Elliott campaign, Hudak still leads. 3) Oh, and I got my first text message from the Hudak campaign the other night, highlighting his Mike […]

Lisa Raitt is in trouble for leaving behind confidential AECL documents at a CTV studio. Before jumping in to this meltdown, kudos to Bob Rae for one of the best lines of the year: “One plausible explanation is maybe she thought CTV was a branch of the government, I can’t explain it” As for Raitt, […]

You Heard it here first. Harper, late in the fall, will announce he is not seeking re-election because he knows the best he could do would be to win yet another miserable minority govt. That will force Michael Ignatieff to give the Tories at least six months to pick a new leader. He will be […]

At last month’s Liberal “leadership” convention in Vancouver, I had a chance to sit down with a few Liberal MPs. Today, I present the first of these videos – long-time Liberal MP Ralph Goodale on the topic of western alienation, and on making the Liberal Party competitive in Western Canada.

There’s a new news aggregator in town. Which is good timing, because there’s actually some real news today, rather than the usual political games which are more fun, but less relevant in the scheme of things. -It appears Jim Flaherty’s great asset sale may include the CBC, VIA Rail, and a slew of other crown […]