1. Stephen Harper has his first casualty as Maurice Vellacott resigns. It may not be as exciting a way to go as over Romanian strippers, but I’m sure it still hurts.

2. If anyone can find a picture of Diane Finley with the horrifying glasses she keeps wearing to QP, I’ll be forever grateful. (UPDATE: Apparently Diane has a medical condition requiring them which I wasn’t aware of. Now, as for Stockwell Day’s rainbow coloured tie he wore on Monday, I wonder what message he’s trying to get across)

3. Not only does Bob Rae’s site avoid the use of the word “Rae”, the main banner seems to be devoid of Bob himself. Or maybe it’s pictures of people named Bob. Or people who like “What About Bob?”. I’m a little confused.

4. In fairness, I’m finding the unexpected attack of the pdfs on Gerard’s site a little annoying.

5. Paul Wells is back blogging and his post saying that Jean Chretien Tony Blair should sack Paul Martin Gordon Brown has spawned a few comments among Libloggers. For the record, I think Chretien was in the right to fire/quit Martin – no Prime Minister should be expected to tolerate someone actively campaigning against him. That said, it’s very much debatable if that was the right strategic move since it allowed Martin to be even more overt in his plotting.

6. Anyone want to take bets on when Andrew Coyne ends his hiatus?

7. The race for the right to complain about the Green Party’s exclusion from the leader’s debates is on.