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Garth Turner’s much anticipated news conference today contained the salacious bombshell that…wait for it…backbench MPs don’t have much power in Ottawa! WOW! I must say it was quite courageous of Garth to take up the plight of the independent MP after he became an independent MP. It reminds me of how he valiantly criticized Harper’s […]

For the Democrats, the Kennedys are political royalty and for the Liberals, it’s always been the Trudeaus. So it certainly brought a smile to my face to see Justin Trudeau speaking highly of a Canadian Kennedy: For those wanting the English version, here’s my rough recap of what Justin had to say: About the race: […]

Yesterday, I posted the answers to questions I sent to LPC Presidential candidate Bobbi Ethier. Today, I post the answers from another challenger, Senator Marie Poulin: 1. Will you be voting in favour of the Red Ribbon Report and the proposal to change the leadership selection process? I cannot say enough about the important work […]

Garth Turner is planning to make a “major” press conference Tuesday. Bold Prediction: This has the Lyle Oberg false alarm written all over it.

I’ll be going into the Red Ribbon Report and the proposed constitutional ammendments later this week (I know what you’re thinking: “a blog post on Liberal Party constitutional changes – I CAN’T WAIT!!!!”). However, it should be noted that Mike Eizenga will be hosting online Q & A sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday to answer […]

It’s not nearly as glamorous as the leadership race…or the nation question…or even the Red Ribbon Report vote (which I’ll be talking about later this week). Hell, even the Paul Martin tribute will probably be more interesting. But the race for the presidency of the Liberal Party is still an important one. Because of this, […]

As others have already said, the idea to hold a state funeral for the last remaining WW1 veteran is a wonderfully appropriate one. Everyone should take a moment to sign this petition.

Both courtesy of Kinsella, 1. Some scary musings about Harper considering constitutional reform and a massive decentralization of power. 2. Howard Dean will be the keynote speaker Wednesday night at the Liberal convention. Since I’m a day late, the obvious “we’re going to Regina, then Calgary, then Quebec…YEEHAW!” and “third straight American speaker” jokes have […]

Kennedy’s Alberta momentum continued this week as he picked up two more endorsements from Liberal MLAs. I mentioned his first three MLA endorsements back in September: Mo Elsalhy (the famous Mark Norris slayer), Bruce Miller, and Bill Bonko. On Wednesday, Gerard added two more names to his list of supporters from MLAs who have pledged […]

Gerard Kennedy had a major speech at Ryerson today where he outlined the Enterprise theme he’s been pushing this campaign. A lot of the specifics outlined were things he’s already talked about but it’s nice to see the many ideas Gerard has thrown out there all tie together. I could go into a long recap […]