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Walk the Walk
In today’s paper, the Edmonton Sun published the answers from party leaders to 20 questions about how environmentally friendly they live. Not too surprisingly, Stephen Harper declined to participate (“my stylist never picks out make-up which has been tested on animals“). While Jack Layton and Stephane Dion certainly appear to be living environmentally friendly lives, […]
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Mandatory Blogging
Two topics which I just could not go without some comment: 1. My bestest bud Rob Anders will have to go through with a nomination after a judge denied the request to delay it on the grounds that “[Rob] cannot fairly and effectively fight a new nomination battle while performing his duties as a sitting […]
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Manitoba Votes
The writ has been dropped in Manitoba for a May 22nd vote. This has, obviously led to speculation that there won’t be a federal spring election because federal party leaders always look out for Manitoba when it comes to election timing. Right? Right? Right? As for the vote itself, above and beyond finding Winnipeg on […]
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Alberta’s NDP Budget
Those outside of Alberta may have missed it, but something truly remarkable happened in our province yesterday (no, not the snow storm or the Flames win – both small miracles in their own right). Remember the complaints by some on the right about Flaherty’s 6-8% increase in spending? Well, yesterday, Lyle Oberg brought in the […]
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Thursday News Round Up
1) Harper has announced he will be appointing barley farmer Bert Brown to fill a Senate vacancy. Bert Brown is, of course, famous for plowing the following phrase into his field in the 1990s: “Triple-E Senate or else…appoint me and screw the effective and equal part of it”. 2) After Rona Ambrose’s initial Green Plan […]
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Extreme Makeover – Taxpayer Edition
“We promise to clean up government…and give it a haircut.” -Conservative campaign promise? It’s been confirmed that Canadian taxpayers are paying for Stephen Harper’s fashion consultant who “helps him perfect his look, including managing his wardrobe and general grooming”. While I’m a tad concerned that our Prime Minister has not yet mastered his own “general […]
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Monsieur President
The Liberals have a new TV ad out today and, after skewering their french radio ads last week, I can safely give this one the thumbs up. Even though it’s an ad about the environment, it’s not really an ad about the environment. This is undeniably a response to Tory messaging that Dion is a […]
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Shrinkage
The latest Decima poll confirms the SES Easter poll that had the Tory lead down to 3. I haven’t been able to find any detailed breakdowns as of yet, but the Bloc are at a shockingly small 29% in Quebec. Both Ipsos and the SC should have new numbers out in the next week or […]
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New Digs
Liberal.ca has gotten a face lift and, no, contrary to popular rumour, there is no green stripe anywhere on the site. The interface looks similar, but there’s a lot of media there including a wide range of podcasts for anyone wanting to workout to the sweet sound of Stephane Dion’s voice.
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Birthday Wishes
For anyone feeling nostalgic, Don Newman had a good interview with Jean Chretien today (which you should be able to download here, sometime this evening). The main focus was on the Charter but, of course, talk drifted on to things like Harper, re-opening the constitution, the Liberal-Green deal, Dion’s leadership and a host of other […]