US porn industry seeks multi-billion dollar bailout Hat tip – Kerplonka

Ottawa , ON – Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff and Party President Doug Ferguson today announced Rocco Rossi will serve as National Director of the Liberal Party of Canada beginning January 26, 2009. Mr. Rossi has served as Chief Executive Officer of The Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario for the past four years. With Mr. […]

Centre Bloq has posted some intriguing speculation about a movement afoot to create a new centrist political party in Alberta (picked up by the Herald today), composed primarily of Alberta Liberals and disenchanted PCs. C’s reports largely mirror what I heard while I was back in Alberta over the holidays, although I get the sense […]

Ignatieff’s office begins to take shape, with a lot of familiar names, from Aggarwal to Zed… [Ignatieff] has yet to hire a chief of staff to run his office. But insiders say former New Brunswick MP Paul Zed will effectively take on that role – without the title – until a permanent top aide can […]

I missed this one when it first came out, but it’s pretty funny. “Prop 8 – The Musical” starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more… by Jack Black

The Nation has a great profile on Howard Dean and the 50 state strategy here. The entire article is good, but here’s the section that Liberals should pay close attention to in the coming months as we decide how to structure and rebuild the party: As he prepares to step down as DNC chair in […]

Something akin to a Quebec wing of the Conservative Party will be created in the new year, to get more organizers on the ground, mostly in ridings currently held by the Bloc. Since, after all, the LPCQ has been such an unmitigated success story…

And now, our finalists. A pair of fun candid pictures from the campaign trail. The most viewed picture of 2008 (even if it was an ’07 pic). And the Tory war room at its worst. And politics at its best. Top Picture of 2008? Bob Rae in the garden of Gethsemane Duceppe: “Someone needs a […]

It’s been an eventful year – a federal election, a US election, an Alberta election, an Alberta Liberal leadership race, a federal Liberal leadership race (kinda), plus whatever the hell that coalition/non-confidence insanity was… I’m back in Calgary for the holidays and have placed a blogging hiatus on myself until early January to allow for […]

Meet your 2008 Senators! Also in the broken promises department, Harper has appointed Thomas Cromwell to the Supreme Court, despite a promise to hold public consultations first. I’ll give Harper a pass on this one, since this appointment probably had to be made before January for the court to function properly – and Cromwell’s frequent […]