Manley Considering Liberal Leadership Bid

I was down in New Hampshire this weekend, helping out the Obama campaign. I’ll be sure to have a full recap…next week! Until then, here’s Thursday’s SNL open if you haven’t caught it yet:

The Liberal Party has a problem. And the first step (or twelfth?) in solving any problem is to admit you have a problem. And the biggest problem right now is that too many Liberals won’t admit there’s a problem. So here are a few inconvenient truths: -The Conservatives raised 12 million dollars more than the […]

A preliminary look at the field… THE ROOMATES Rae and Ignatieff are the two names on everyone’s lips, yet again. Both are better candidates than they were last time, when Iggy’s newness to politics and Bob’s newness to the Liberal Party were major turn-offs. Still, the anybody but Ragnatieff sentiment carried the day two years […]

Throughout the election I asked readers to rate the different ads the parties tossed out on the airwaves. And, even though there were some obvious partisan biases at play, it’s hard to argue with the final list. Here are the top 5 ads, based on your votes: Number 5: Harpernomics (Liberals) Number 4: Bushwacked (Liberals) […]

John McCallum to be Liberal interim leader: CTVUpdated Sat. Oct. 18 2008 10:54 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff Ontario Liberal MP John McCallum has been tapped to take over the reins of his party as interim leader if Stephane Dion steps down as expected on Monday, CTV News has learned.

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I got an advance copy of Dave Taylor’s Alberta Liberal Party organization document, which is being released later this afternoon. Given that I’ve been talking a lot about grass roots reform for the federal Liberals lately, I figured I’d skim the 46 pages. And, you know what? There are probably some things in here the […]

We can all agree, I think, that the Liberals – from the leader on down – were not ready for this campaign, and were not ready to govern. But few races in this country have more underscored the extremely cruel nature of electoral politics. It’s an elbows-out game for all concerned, and parties have to […]

If the common sentiment in the Liberal Party becomes that the only reason we lost in 2006 was because of Adscam, and the only reason we lost in 2008 was because of Dion, then Stephen Harper is going to become the longest serving Tory PM since John A. Macdonald. With that in mind, everyone should […]