This move would appear to address some of the problems surrounding Michael Ignatieff’s first shadow cabinet: OTTAWA – Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff today unveiled new roles for members of the Liberal caucus and announced his nominees for House committee chair positions. The Honourable Ujjal Dosanjh (Vancouver South), former premier of British Columbia, will assume the […]

A jilted Jack has lashed out against his old coalition partners with a pair of new radio ads. There’s nothing overly novel about them – it’s basically a rehash of the same tactic he ran against Dion last campaign. But, really, it’s still just the NDP. It’s like worrying about a leaky faucet, when there’s […]

The death of the coalition I can live with. But the death of coalition analogies? That’s like, like…well, I can’t think of what that’s like, but I’m sure these pundits and politicians could: Don Newman (Monday): “The NDP are like that student who made a prom date in March and now, come May, he’s not […]

B. Not necessarily coalition To no one’s surprise (except, judging by his reaction, Jack Layton’s), that horrifying experiment in democracy is now over with. In the end, the coalition threat certainly deserves some of the credit/blame for Harper opening the spending floodgates, so the whole exercise may not have been in vain. So what is […]

After a six week hiatus, Days of our Parliamentary Lives returns this week, with all new episodes. With all the twists that went on before the holidays, you may need to refresh yourself on the current plot lines here. Last time we left our hero Steve, he was clinging to his political life due to […]

Although opposition critic portfolios aren’t necessarily the most important thing, today’s shadow cabinet shuffle was one of Ignatieff’s first visible moves as party leader. So it’s probably worth paying a bit of attention to his choices. 1. Ignatieff’s two leadership rivals clearly wound up with the portfolios they wanted – Rae to Foreign Affairs and […]

It’s debatable how much stock we should be placing in the polls until Ignatieff gets a chance to fully define himself. So rather than going bonkers over every poll that gets released, I think I’ll just do a once-a-month round-up to get a rough lay of the land. So here’s what Canadians have been telling […]

I didn’t have time to add my two cents yesterday to the news of a new Liberal renewal committee, so here goes. As others have pointed out, the renewal committee is undeniably stacked with Ignatieff supporters – by my count, 7 of the 9 were part of his leadership campaign, while I believe Girard and […]

OTTAWA – Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff today announced the establishment of a special committee to ensure the Liberal Party is well equipped during this critical period of reform and rejuvenation. “Renewal will take many forms,” said Mr. Ignatieff. “It is my hope the Liberal Party of Canada will be guided by the views of each […]