VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberals returned to the legislature Monday to rewrite their championed balanced-budget law to clear the path for a deficit budget next week. Premier Gordon Campbell has been forced to admit the province is bleeding red ink with the rest of the world. The Liberals will use the next week to amend […]

Tories on the defensive after jobless rate surges Conservative ridings get more federal cash: Liberals Departure of Tory strategist leaves ‘massive hole’ AG says that feds hand out big bucks with no control Auditor-General slams crop inspections Federal prisons need better budgeting: AG Independent MP accuses Tories of smear campaign Lack of action on Khadr […]

Conservative party drops Cadman defamation suit against Liberals And for those who forget, here’s what it was all about: In a March 3 letter sent to Dion, Deputy Leader Michael Ignatieff and Liberal House leader Ralph Goodale, lawyers for Harper describe two articles on the Liberal website as “devastatingly defamatory.” The articles relate to allegations […]

Top Tory election architect Patrick Muttart – who most people seem to think is a pretty bright guy – is off to the US. So how big of a deal is this? Well, it’s probably more important than people who don’t follow politics think it is, but less important than people who do follow politics […]

Far be it for me to disagree with a respected historian like Peter C. Newman but…I’m going to disagree with Peter C. Newman. In Saturday’s Globe and Mail, Newman explains his theory of how Liberals choose their leaders: If history doesn’t exactly repeat itself, it sets significant patterns, such as the astonishing fact that the […]

The 2008 fundraising numbers are out: CPC: 21,190,928.22 (up 25%)Lib: 5,900,511.89 (up 30%)NDP: 5,466,434.84 (up 37%)Green: 1,631,293.79 (up 66%)Bloc: 713,415.22 (up 66%) On the bright side, Liberal numbers were up 23% in Q4 while most other parties only matched their Q3 numbers, but this may have been due to the leadership “race”. Either way, the […]

1. Dr. Tom is the latest to jump on the “death of Conservatism”/”Right wing uprising” train, in this Globe op-ed. While there might be a fundraising backlash, I wouldn’t expect any of this to hurt Harper at the polls. According to this poll (page 35), only 1% of Conservative voters are less likely to vote […]

Well, not exactly – but close! 1. It came out a few days ago that the RCMP raided Alberta’s Justice Department last July, looking for proof of a forged document that had been entered into evidence at an earlier inquiry. Also: According to Moore’s sworn statement, the Department of Infrastructure freedom of information officer who […]