The safest PC seats in Ontario, based on their 2007 margin of victory: Haldimand—Norfolk +38.7%Renfrew—Nipissing—Pebroke +37.6%Leeds-Grenville +27.5%Simcoe—Grey +24.6%Niagara West—Glanbrook +21.0%Parry Sound—Muskoka +20.5%Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock +20.5%

As one Ontario leadership race begins, another ends: HAMILTON — Andrea Horwath has been elected the new Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party. She easily prevailed Saturday night on the third ballot of a leadership convention, taking 60.4 per cent of the vote. Her challenger, Peter Tabuns, won 39.6 per cent. Michael Prue and […]

Judy Wilson is out and Rick Miller is in as David Swann’s new Chief of Staff. I don’t know Judy well, but I welcome this move. I got to know Rick when he was my MLA for the two years I spent up in Edmonton, and I could immediately tell he was is a guy […]

“It was in Bobcaygeon I saw the constellationsreveal themselves one star at a timeDrove back to town this morning with working on my mindI thought of maybe quittingthought of leaving it behind.” John Tory’s dreams go down in Haliburton–Kawartha Lakes-Brock riding (which also contains the aforementioned Bobcaygeon). Rick Johnson (Lib) 15,482John Tory (PC) 14,576Mike Schreiner […]

Tonight, John Tory’s Magical Quest for the Golden Seat reaches it’s thrilling climax. Feel free to discuss the results as they come in. I’ll be back here later tonight to spin the results as a win for the Ontario Liberal Party…regardless of what happens!

February 12th: “Canadians are concerned about the economy right now, they don’t want to see politicians playing political games at the moment,” the Prime Minister’s communications director, Kory Teneycke, said, explaining why they haven’t done to Mr. Ignatieff what they did to Mr. Dion. “But we’re not focused on politics right now. We’re not planning […]

I’ve been out of town for a few days, so here’s a quick run-down on some Liberal Party goings-on: 1) The Liberals have appointed Mauril Belanger and Navdeep Bains as platform/policy co-chairs. Nav is also heading out the Renewal Committee…or is it the Change Commission? or the Party Growth Group? or the Rejuvenation Task Force? […]

This got buried beneath the billion dollar boondoggle last week, so this week’s “This Week in Alberta”, is pleased to bring you the tale of Lorne Gibson. Lorne was, up until last week, Alberta’s Chief Electoral Officer. Now, given that the last election was a bit of a gong show, it’s understandable that Lorne would […]

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the second somewhat annual Political Oscars – a chance to honour the best and worst in politics. With these awards there are no commercials, no dresses that cost more than you make in a year, no over-rehearsed demonstrations of spontaneous joy, no pre-game show hosted by Ben Mulroney, and no […]