…and 20 how to sell him. Here’s a selection of the responses you gave to my post earlier this week asking how the Tories and Liberals will define the new Liberal leader. TORIESMicahel Ignatieff: Not A CanadianMichael Ignatieff: Man of MysteryCount Ignatieff, the Russian vampireAn elitist egghead who is out of touch with the reality […]

Sunday, December 20, 2009 With the 2009 Canadian Blog Awards now in the history books it seems fitting to look back on one of the biggest stories that came out of last year’s awards in 2008. For those that don’t remember, 3 attention deprived bloggers, Dave Cournoyer (Daveberta), Danielle Takacs (Galloping Around the Golden Horseshoe), […]

1. The Calgary Herald profiles newly elected Alberta Liberal leader David Swann. Among his policy proposals sure to go over well in the right-of-centre province are: a moratorium on oil sands development, a progressive income tax, a cap-and-trade system, an increased carbon levy on large GHG emitters, and a new provincial sales tax. Memo to […]

Now that Ontarians have shown themselves to be responsible voters, Stephen Harper has agreed to give the province 21 more seats at the next redistribution. If we assume that these seats, plus the 7 new ones in BC and 5 in Alberta, break down along current support lines, here’s what the current parliament would look […]

Ed Stelmach Takes over Blogging Coalition; Future of Coalition Uncertain Friday, December 19, 2008 The story of the fledgling coalition of bumbling progressive bloggers has taken yet more dramatic turns. After a day of rallies Wednesday, the leader of the coalition, Dave Cournoyer was to address the nation to make his case for why his […]

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Courtesy of former blogging superstar TB, comes a visual representation of my last post. If you’d like a slightly clearer word version, just drop me an e-mail.

September 15, 2008: “My own belief is if we were going to have some kind of big crash or recession, we probably would have had it by now.” – Stephen Harper The next month: Dow Jones plunges 2,340 points October 7, 2008: “I think there’s probably a lot of great buying opportunities emerging in the […]

This week’s showdown between 2008 Best Progressive Blogger and the fledgling Progressive Blogger coalition has galvanized thousands of ordinary Canadians, who took to the streets yesterday in massive political demonstrations. In Toronto, about 4,500 coalition supporters flooded Nathan Phillips Square to hear bloggers Dave Cournoyer and Danielle Takacs explain why their united progressive blogging front, […]

It could be worse: Russian treason bill could target Kremlin critics MOSCOW (AP) — Under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, people who fraternized with foreigners or criticized the Kremlin were “enemies of the people” and sent to the gulag. Now there’s new legislation backed by Vladimir Putin’s government that human rights activists say could throw Russia […]