Calgary Grit

I’d been contemplating writing a lengthier elaboration of my previous post, complete with payoff matrices and nash equilibriums, but Andrew Steele saves me the trouble, with a great run down of the game of election chicken we’re in, from a game theory perspective. It’s well worth a read. However, any sort of “chicken” analysis assumes […]

Maclean’s has the latest on the courting of Stephen Harper: They met for about an hour. It was a productive meeting. There will be another meeting later today. It looks like those two crazy kids might just make it after all… UPDATE: The evening meeting was “productive”, with yet another breakfast meeting scheduled for tomorrow. […]

OK, so what are the options? 1) Harper refused to compromise, opposition votes non-confidence -> ELECTION 2) Harper refuses to compromise, opposition rolls over -> NO ELECTION 3) Harper compromises, opposition votes non-confidence -> ELECTION 4) Harper compromises, opposition lets government survive -> NO ELECTION 5) Wild card (i.e. prorogation, Harper pulls the plug himself, […]

So, Ignatieff has either backed down or tossed down the gauntlet, depending on your interpretation of things. Here’s Kady’s recap of Iggy’s demands: 11:09:39 AMOn EI – he wants to hear what the PM is proposing, as far as reform of the existing system, now – not in three months, and he’s willing to sit […]

Iggy will spend the weekend reading Harper’s 270-page progress report, before passing judgment on the Conservative government.

…and it seemed a lot less biased than I remember it. Anyways, Harper was on the show and he was talking about how 80% of the stimulus money has been “implemented” already. Now, being implemented apparently doesn’t mean it’s being spent…rather that there’s a plan to spend it, or someone has thought about spending it. […]

Last week I posted my interview with Ralph Goodale on western alienation. Today, my video interview with Scott Brison on the economy, including what the Liberals would have done differently, free trade, and relations with China.

I’m sure you’ve all been intensely following the Nova Scotia election (ha ha!). If you haven’t, well, it might be worth at least glancing at tonight’s results, because Nova Scotia is poised to become Canada’s fifth province to succumb to the socialist hordes. The latest polls have Darrell Dexter’s NDP (campaign poster to the left) […]

“I can’t. I’d love to, but I can’t. That’ll be a career-limiting move, as we would say.”-Lisa Raitt, on tape Speaking of career-limiting moves, the Rait tape is now public. There’s a good lesson for all you political staffers out there, in that you should never accidentally audio tape private conversations with your boss. And, […]

Apparently one politician doesn’t like another politician. And there’s tape to prove it! For those just tuning in now, Lisa Raitt is in more trouble, with the Chronicle Herald set to release a “damaging” tape of her bad mouthing Minister of Health Leona Aglukkaq (yes, I had to look the spelling up), after a failed […]