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The NDP has their mid-term report card out for Harper’s Cabinet, with Lawrence Cannon and Tony Clement leading the way…at C-. I had a teacher who gave out marks like this once – everyone hated him. I’ll save my report card for the one year mark but it is difficult to pick out Ministers who […]

One of the drawbacks to the entire leadership process is that I’m now way behind on school work and with finals this week that means you’ll have to look elsewhere for insightful and/or entertaining blog materials. So, instead, I’m going to do the lazy blogging thing and just slap up links to various Globe & […]

Greg Staples hosted a post-Liberal leadership roundup on the blogger’s hotstove this week which I guested on, along with Cherniak and Gauntlet. Feel free to give it a listen here.

While Ezra Levant and Pat Martin have raised objections to Stephane Dion’s dual French-Canadian citizenship because they don’t like the optics, I think people may be missing the larger picture here. I don’t want to alarm anyone, but after minutes of sleuthing and deductive reasoning, I’ve reach some very disturbing conclusions. Consider the following: Before […]

I’m currently only behind SDA by a factor of 24 in the Weblog Awards, 988 to 42.

It’s probably too much to ask for parliamentarians to work together to save the planet but, luckily enough, I think we might get the next best thing. Between the hype around Elizabeth May and the triumph of the green scarves in Montreal, it seems that all parties are now scared of losing the environmental vote […]

Since Bart Ramson is no more and since google really needs the business, I’ve got a new e-mail address for all things blog related: calgarygrit@gmail.com Links, tips, feedback, hate mail…send it all there.

Surprisingly enough, the first major attack launched by the NDP and CPC on Stephane Dion is an assault on his dual Canadian-French citizenship. Despite all the bad blood among many of the contenders in the leadership race, we never even heard a whisper campaign about this (of course, had he been a dual Canadian-American citizen […]

In 175 to 122 vote, the House has voted against re-opening the debate on same sex marriage. Among the notables who opposed the motion: Peter MacKayLawrence Cannon (who no doubt will go into a 15 minute monologue on who exactly is a same sex couple if asked afterwards)Jim PrenticeDavid EmersonJosee VernerJohn BairdMichael ChongJoe Comuzzi However, […]

A lot of people are drawing parallels between the Liberal and Alberta PC leadership races. In both cases, the top two candidates faced strong “Anybody But” movements, allowing the blander but less disliked third place challenger to come up the middle and win. And while there are certainly some similarities, I don’t think the comparison […]