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You’ve got a friend in Pennsylvania
Clinton takes Pennsylvania 55-45. In other words, an Obama win is still inevitable but not inevitable enough that this thing will wrap up anytime soon. So the eyes of the nation now turn to…Guam!
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Second Budget, Same as the First
In honour of earth day, it was a very environmentally friendly budget by Ed Stelmach’s Conserva…ha ha. No, of course not. Now that the joke is out of the way, here’s a serious rundown: -Would someone care to remind me again how the Alberta Liberals got portrayed as “tax and spend Liberals” during the last […]
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"It’s a private meeting Keith"
I know a lot of Tories read this blog so maybe they can help explain to me what the hell “strategic genius” Stephen Harper was thinking when he invited select media personalities to a series of hotel rooms a private spin session on Sunday? First of all, assuming reporters are going to keep a private […]
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Let he who is without Hitler analogy cast the first stone
By good buddy “Ron” Anders has broken free of his muzzle and is in the news for comparing the Beijing Olympics to the 1936 Berlin Olympics: Anders, an outspoken critic of the Chinese government, said Thursday that Beijing was the wrong choice to host the Olympics. “I absolutely 100 per cent think it compares to […]
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Jackass
Aaron Wherry digs up this gem of an old letter some guy named Stephen Harper wrote back in 2001. In it, Harper: A) says “the jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control” B) Criticizes Elections Canada for ordering an RCMP raid C) Rails against election spending limits D) Blames the Prime Minister at the […]
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On The Agenda
For those of you lucky enough to get TVO, I’ll be on “The Agenda with Steve Paiken” tonight (8 pm, 11 pm, and, best of all, 5 am), as part of a panel discussing the state of the Liberal Party. Video and podcast will be up on this page after the fact.
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Blame the Refs
Boy, it must be tough to be a Tory. I mean, they have the Senate, the entire judiciary, the civil service, the CBC, the media, and now, the officials at Elections Canada appointed by Harper himself all working against them. It’s amazing they ever won an election in the face of all this adversity! Just […]
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Maybe they were searching for the hidden agenda…
The RCMP were in and out of Conservative HQ today, helping Elections Canada obtain documents one assumes were related to the most-complicated-scandal-in-the-history-of-politics (also known as the catchier “in and out scandal”, explained here in 30 seconds). We still don’t know much about this raid or the status of the investigation but it looks like this […]
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Are you now or have you ever been a Bruins fan?
Sports and politics often clash, and while the Olympics seem to be the real hot button issue of late, it’s Canada and it’s payoff time, so it’s not too surprising that pucks and politics have become intertwined yet again. The latest round of controversy comes from Quebec. The Mayor of Montreal has demanded that local […]
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Found in Translation
The new Bloc Quebecois slogan translates to “Here for Quebec”. Not bad. It’s no “un parti proper au Quebec” (one of the greatest slogans ever) but it’s passable. However, rather than translate, I’d stick with the French original in English because it works oh so well: “Présent pour le Québec”. An Anglo looking at that […]