Calgary Grit

You can read the first part of this interview here. Stay tuned for Bob tomorrow, 5. You’ve proposed a national learning strategy. As a former education minister are you at all concerned about the federal government going into provincial jurisdictions? What I’m saying is that we need a national learning strategy. The federal government is […]

It’s no promiscuous, but this one could be toping the charts before too long.

I’m hoping to jazz up my Race for Stornoway page for the convention. Among the information I’ll be adding is a list of all bloggers who plan to be blogging from Montreal. So if you’ll be at the convention next week and posting frequent blog updates, drop me an e-mail or post in the comments […]

Previous InterviewsMichael IgnatieffKen DrydenScott BrisonCarolyn BennettMaurizio BevilacquaStephane DionMartha Hall Findlay My path crossed with Gerard’s on mid-term election night when he was in Edmonton and he was kind enough to answer a few of my questions for a blog interview. I think I ended up doing this at about 2 am his time on a […]

I tend to think the next two weeks will be rather Liberal leadership intensive on this blog (stay turned for interviews with Kennedy and Rae to be posted early this week) so here are a few (mostly) non-leadership related stories to consider on Grey Cup Sunday. 1. OJ Simpson has less shame than anyone else […]

With the Liberal convention under two weeks away, I thought it might be fun to take a stroll down memory lane… July 2005: Calgary Grit projects a race anyone of four people could win…those four people being Manley, McKenna, Brison, and Cauchon. Also declares that Michael Ignatieff’s experience in Cabinet will make it or break […]

This kind of makes me like Jim Dinning a bit more: Ted Morton and Gary McPherson are the new poster boys of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. The advocacy organization awarded the pair of would-be premiers top marks – a “B” and a “B-” respectively – for responses to a questionnaire on tax cuts, transparency and […]

I’ll be voting in favour of the Red Ribbon Report but I’m still on the fence about the vote on a new leadership system. The choice will be between the current delegated convention and the Tory system of a weighted one member one vote where every riding gets 100 points. To me, this is far […]

I did a guest blog on the Daily Canuck today where I futily tried to sum up the convention, the Kennedy campaign, and why delegates should vote for Gerard in 150 words. In other news, I’m up for Best Blog and Best Progressive Blog in the Canadian Blog Awards this year. While it does seem […]

I had a pair of Liberals e-mail me today asking for my take on the Red Ribbon Report amendments so I figured this would be a good time to post my thoughts on the proposed constitutional changes (as the sound of hundreds of readers who could care less about the Liberal Party constitution leaving this […]