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Bloggers Hotstove
I was on a special post-budget edition of the Bloggers Hotstove this week with Tasha Kheirriddin and Antonio DiDomizio. If you don’t want to listen to the whole thing, it can be broken into three parts: 1. Tasha makes some very smart comments on the budget. 2. Antonio and I bicker about the fiscal imbalance […]
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Balance
Couldn’t have said it better myself so I won’t even try.
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Budget 2007
I know most of my fellow Libloggers will classify today’s budget as everything from “a disaster” to “the end of Canada”. Personally, I’d say it’s not bad. I mean, with the Canadian economy in the shape it’s in, it’s hard to deliver a bad budget. Harper resisted the urge to go down the typical conservative […]
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Fixing Health Care for a Generation
“The long, tiring, unproductive era of bickering between the provincial and federal governments is over.” –Jim Flaherty Uh-huh. Glad we finally got that problem solved. More bold proclamations from Canada’s Finance Minister: Mr. Flaherty said the budget should “end the bickering” between provinces over the issue [of equalization]. “The day of governments with their hands […]
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Mindless Speculation
I know whenever anyone fires up the troops, it’s perceived that an election is “imminent”. I’ve said for a while that I don’t think we’ll see a federal vote until 2008, but the common consensus is certainly turning towards a spring vote these days. So I’ll toss the question out there for the comments section: […]
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Spin Away
The latest Ipsos Poll: CPC 36Lib 34NDP 12BQ 9Green 8 So, the Tories go from 14 points up a few weeks back down to a 2 point lead. There’s only one logical conclusion to reach; Yes sir, Stephen Harper is steamrolling to a majority government. Huh? In other news, Elizabeth May is ready to take […]
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Neck and Neck and Neck
Wow. Liberals 33%PQ 30%ADQ 30% First of all, I guess I was wrong, wrong, wrong about Tuesday’s debate. To me, it looked like Charest had won and Dumont was nothing more than a hyperactive squirrel (think Jack Layton in the 2004 debates) but it seems Quebecers saw it differently or, at the very least, the […]
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Your Friday Smile
Judge overturns nomination of Rob Anders
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Mid-Week Musings
1. The NDP have a well produced ad up on their site which they are asking donations for to air. ABCer picks up the many obvious contradictions in their plea to air it. 2. Martha Hall Findlay has been appointed in Willowdale. I’m not principally opposed to appointments (of qualified people), but it seems to […]
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Le Debat
Random comments as I half pay attention to the Quebec debate (Fuddle Duddle’s got the french live blog going too)… 6:12 pm: I just log on to the CPAC website now as Charest says “you need to elect the best team, I have the best team”. I guess the fact that none of his candidates […]