Sure, he may not have taken thee post of NATO Secretary General, but Peter MacKay has regained the much-coveted title of Canada’s sexiest MP. Some may think the annual Hill Times survey is a bit silly but, after a year that included a sex scandal, an election, a Liberal leadership change, and the coalition insanity, […]

Main Entry: moral compass Part of Speech: nDefinition: anything which serves to guide a person’s decisions based on morals or virtuesExample: Hopefully, the lawyer has a moral compass. The latest chapter in the Brian Mulroney saga has Stephen Harper attacking Michael Ignatieff for lacking a “moral compass”. I’m not completely sure I follow Harper’s logic […]

Ed Stelmach(February 23, 2008): “A Progressive Conservative government will never put Alberta back into a deficit position” April 7, 2009: Alberta to post $4.7B deficit After 15 consecutive balanced budgets, Alberta has plunged into deficit. And it’s a doozy – nearly five billion dollars. In fairness to the PCs, few saw this coming (CG last […]

Although there won’t be a lot of vote on at this May’s LPC convention, there are a few contested party positions up for grabs. I may have more to say on some of these races later but, for now, here’s a list of the candidates: (if I missed a website link, just send it to […]

NATO names Danish prime minister secretary-general

Updated at the bottom with a new poll… As if 40 years of one-party rules wasn’t bad enough, the opposition parties appear to be crumbling at a time when (in theory) the PCs should be vulnerable. Exhibit A is the Alberta Liberal Party, which will lay off its final two staff members on April 30th.Exhibit […]

From a long-time reader comes the following word clouds, based on the complete text of every single members statement given by the Tories and Liberals during the month of March. It’s fairly easy to see what’s on Tory minds these days: For a higher resolution copy of the Tory one, click here. For the Liberal […]

Judging by the reaction today, clearly this is the issue the Liberals must pounce upon to bring down the government…

I don’t have anything really relevant to comment on today but I feel to need to bump the April Fool’s post off the top of the blog come April 2nd. So, I give you a pair of recent Rick Mercer rants – one taking aim at the Grits, and one taking aim at the Tories. […]

One of my old Calgary friends now working in the PMO gave me the inside scoop on the new Ignatieff attack ad blitz, set to launch within the next two weeks. The campaign will be titled “not a Canadian”, similar to the “not a leader” ads used to brand Dion. True to Conservative form, rather […]