1. The Green Party environmental platform calls for a dreaded carbon tax and higher gasoline prices. Sure, it’ll be unpopular, but if people are serious about meeting Kyoto (and the Greens certainly are), you’ll only get there with hard line tactics like that.

2. On the international scene, G8 leaders have agreed to consider thinking about perhaps maybe possibly wanting to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2050. And people laughed when Harper said he’d be instrumental in bridging a compromise…

3. I’m not sure if this helps or hurts Dion’s status as a “leader” or a “hero”, but Liberal Senators are shelving Harper’s Senate reform bill for now.

4. Bill Casey is gone from the Tory caucus. I seem to remember a few commentators being hard on Dion for booting Comuzzi for breaking party ranks on a budget vote in March…I invite them to weigh in.

5. I’ve got to hand it to SDA for the “IOC rapes gay nazis” description of the new London 2012 Olympic logo.