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2007 Year in Review Quiz: Live from Campaign Headquaters
How closely did you follow politics this year? Take a crack at these 20 questions to find out. And no, my felow Liberals, there is no benefit to abstaining on any questions so take a guess on all of them. 1. Which hockey player’s alleged anti-French comments were investigated by parliamentarians this spring? a) Saku […]
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An ABer in Toronto
This fall, Craig Chandler told Albertans to “adapt or leave” and it appears I’ve selected the later. Tonight, I catch a WestJet flight to Toronto where I’ll be starting work in January. As I’ve been telling people this, their first reaction is rarely “good luck” or “I’ll miss you”, it’s usually “so what are you […]
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In Case You Missed It…
I know I didn’t catch this one over the holidays. From La Presse: Stephen Harper souhaite que la résolution qui reconnaît les Québécois comme une nation soit incluse dans la Constitution canadienne dès que « le terrain sera fertile ». Dans une entrevue exclusive accordée à La Presse, le premier ministre invite donc à se […]
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Merry Festivus
Today being December 23rd and, therefore, Festivus, I felt I would take this opportunity for the traditional airing of the grievances. While I may not have as many grievances as, say, Craig Chandler, there are certainly many people who have disappointed me over the past year: 1. To Jean Lapierre and Ralph Klein – you […]
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By-Elections Called
Four federal by elections have been called for March 17th which, one imagines, will make the urge to “go green” tempting for most candidates. The two Ontario ones should be cake walks for Bob Rae and Martha Hall Findlay, giving Dion some fresh front bench strength. In Toronto Centre, Bill Graham won by over 16,000 […]
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Meltdown
Lib 32CPC 30NDP 15Green 12BQ 10 (guess) You know what this means don’t you? Well, not much except the Tories will be “going up” in the next poll…
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2007 Man of the Year
It’s that time of year again when everyone picks their person of the year…or cops out and does something incredibly lame. So, always one to follow suit, it’s time for the prestigious Calgary Grit person of the year selection. As was the case over the past three years when Michael Ignatieff, Belinda Stronach, and Ralph […]
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The Gift that Keeps on Giving
Via Daveberta, Craig Chandler will be running as an independent candidate in Calgary Egmont and he has started to fill out a slate of men who share his views. While I have serious doubts about any of them, save Chandler, drawing a huge chunk of votes, they will have money and will be relatively well […]
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Master of My Domain Name
For anyone looking to save ten valuable characters on their bookmarks, I’ve finally landed the www.calgarygrit.ca which will forward to the usual blogspot addy. If Warren can get permalinks, I figure I can handle this. In other blogging news, the 2007 Canadian Blog Awards have a new home and are now accepting nominations in a […]
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Well, he did find witches…
The much anticipated Paille report has arrived! And, wouldn’t you know it, after sitting on Senator Michael Fortier’s desk since October 5th, it was published the exact same day as Brian Mulroney’s appearance before the Commons Ethics Committee. Talk about weird coincidences, eh? So what did the report, designed to embarrass the Liberals find? Plenty […]