Calgary Grit

“”I’ve been a strong Conservative all my life like any normal Albertan,” voter Ellie Lucille Scott told CBC News. “But I think that people do need to be put on their toes a little bit and I think that’s the message I would like to see them get at this time.” Scott doesn’t work in […]

You may have already seen this one around, but Environmental Defence has released a “Just Visiting” spoof, in honour of Harper’s Obama photo-op tomorrow.

I have reluctantly become a twitterite and can be followed here: www.twitter.com/calgarygrit I’m not sure I necessarily understand twitter or what purpose it actually serves, but the fear of being labelled a Luddite by the blogging community is just too strong, so I caved.

Yeah, yeah, by-elections are meaningless. The Alberta PCs lost the Elbow by election in 2007 and a year later, they swept the province, winning 70 seats. But it’s hard for them to not be at least a little worried by what’s going on tonight. With 56 of 66 polls reporting: Hinman (Wild Rose Alliance): 3,261Roberts […]

One year ago: “I just believe the math. The math is such that it is extremely difficult for any political party to win a majority,” said Harper, who later chiding Dion for predicting that the Liberals could win a majority. Now: In a closed meeting, held last week in Sault Ste. Marie, Prime Minister Stephen […]

Allow me to draw your attention to a pair of recent items on Pundits’ Guide: 1. The pace of candidate nominations has picked up, but the parties still have a long way to go, if you assume an early October writ drop. The Tories have nominated 175 candidates, the Liberals 77, the Greens 33, the […]

So, as usual, I was spending my Sunday evening unwinding by watching the NDP YouTube channel, when I came across this gem – Jack Layton’s response’s to the Conservative budget. Remember, this Friday’s confidence vote on the ways and means motion is for that very same budget, and there’s been a lot of noise about […]

Ignatieff vows never to form coalition Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff vowed Friday that his party would never enter into a governing coalition and said he could make Parliament work without such a deal. “In January, we did not support a coalition, and we do not support a coalition today or tomorrow,” Ignatieff told reporters in […]

As much as I love leadership races, and as interesting as it is to watch a race where the winner actually becomes Premier, I don’t plan to follow the Manitoba NDP leadership race to replace Gary Doer that closely. As in, this will probably be the last post on it until so-and-so wins. So, if […]