Calgary Grit

Corey Hogan is in. George Dadamo is out, presumably to run municipally in Calgary. Other candidates can still declare for the Liberal nomination by June 8th, but you have to figure that Hogan (the campaign manager of Dave Taylor’s ALP bid) would have the edge over any other challengers. So how would Mr. Hogan fare? […]

Sent out by the NDP on Tuesday. I’m sure President Obama will be eternally grateful for Jack’s “help”… Dear Friend, Today, Jack Layton flies to Washington D.C. to help President Obama in his fight for universal health care. And to fight to protect our cherished Medicare back here in Canada. It’s an important few days, […]

Tid-bits from Ontario’s PC leadership race: 1) A poll of Conservative voters in Ontario shows Christine Elliott in the lead. 2) In a poll among actual PC members, leaked by the Elliott campaign, Hudak still leads. 3) Oh, and I got my first text message from the Hudak campaign the other night, highlighting his Mike […]

Lisa Raitt is in trouble for leaving behind confidential AECL documents at a CTV studio. Before jumping in to this meltdown, kudos to Bob Rae for one of the best lines of the year: “One plausible explanation is maybe she thought CTV was a branch of the government, I can’t explain it” As for Raitt, […]

You Heard it here first. Harper, late in the fall, will announce he is not seeking re-election because he knows the best he could do would be to win yet another miserable minority govt. That will force Michael Ignatieff to give the Tories at least six months to pick a new leader. He will be […]

At last month’s Liberal “leadership” convention in Vancouver, I had a chance to sit down with a few Liberal MPs. Today, I present the first of these videos – long-time Liberal MP Ralph Goodale on the topic of western alienation, and on making the Liberal Party competitive in Western Canada.

There’s a new news aggregator in town. Which is good timing, because there’s actually some real news today, rather than the usual political games which are more fun, but less relevant in the scheme of things. -It appears Jim Flaherty’s great asset sale may include the CBC, VIA Rail, and a slew of other crown […]

I figured Ekos and Angus Reid would be reporting soon…so I held off right until the end of May for my polling update, but it looks like I should have waited another day. Two new polls are out today, both showing the Liberals with a slight lead: Ekos (n = 10,986, demon dialed)Lib 33.5%CPC 32.3%NDP […]

Gerard Kennedy is always one to take a different approach to the political game, so it should come as no surprise that he’s going outside the box to pay down the last of his 2006 leadership debt. The event is called “opening doors with Kennedy and friends” and there are a lot of friends – […]