Among the highlights from the LPCQ’s leadership convention recommendations: Furthermore, we recommend lowering the registration fees and lowering the allocation for transportation. Therefore, by lowering registration fees and by restricting the allocation for transportation, we would be minimizing the possibility of reaching the contributions ceiling to a political party and allow a majority of delegates […]

Highlights from the Liberal Shadow Cabinet: -Bob Rae, Michael Ignatieff, and Dominic LeBlanc are nowhere to be seen. Ruby Dhalla, however, is the Labour critic. I’ll let my readers connect the dots on this one. -Scott Brison replaces John McCallum in the VERY important Finance critic position. After watching Brison beat up on Flaherty at […]

1. Bob Rae’s strategy to win the Liberal leadership is to focus on the economy That’s either a really dumb move or a counter-intuitive master stroke of brilliance. 2. “Bob doesn’t feel overmatched,” said the strategist, who asked not to be identified. Jane, could you not find one Liberal willing to make this bold claim […]

Before I get to this week’s ALP leadership profile, my spies were at the Calgary Egmont leadership forum last week and sent me a recap. The following comes from Liberals who had not met any of the candidates before the forum so, for that reason, I re-post highlights from their comments here, if only to […]

Today’s Michael Ignatieff campaign launch – not to be confused with his initial launch…or his more formal future launch, went off fairly smoothly. The only real newsworthy tid-bit from it was MI’s promise to hold a “thinker’s conference” within a hundred days of winning the leadership. You can read about it here, or check out […]

The Office isn’t the only thing heading to Winnipeg. Danielle Takacs will be there, so her blog will certainly be a must-read over the next few days.

From the initial field of a few hundred thousand rumoured candidates, it’s looking more and more like this will be a three-man race (c’mon Paul Hellyer – it’s not too late to get a team together!). The latest MPs to offer up the “thanks, but no thanks” are Martha Hall Findlay, Denis Coderre, David McGuinty, […]

With oil prices tumbling and no Liberal government to blame it on?

And we’re off! The rules have been set – Feb 6 membership cut-off, March 6-10 super weekend, and an April 30 to May 3 convention. As we all know, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. So here are a few lessons I think we can all learn from the […]

EDMONTON – Bedecked in a black cowboy hat and a bolo tie, Liberal Leader Kevin Taft stood in the legislature rotunda today and announced he would table a motion to make rodeo Alberta’s official sport. “Alberta doesn’t even have an official sport. It struck me right away, well, it should be rodeo. What is more […]