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Wow. The Iggmentum continues to spread across Quebec. Is there anyone there who’s not supporting the guy?

The Globe has some interesting US poling results with mid-term elections less than two weeks away. Looks like American voters are finally waking up and seeing the disaster the Bush Presidency has been (or, more likely, they’re upset over a few instant messages by Mark Foley…). Breaking it down into actual races is electoral-vote.com which […]

Before I get to my third profile of the PC leadership candidates, check out the latest from the party’s biggest shit disturber (who I profiled yesterday): Alberta Tory leadership candidate Lyle Oberg called a news conference to allege misconduct on another candidate’s campaign, then backed away from revealing details Wednesday. Lyle Oberg planned to reveal […]

I was going to go into a long rant on the Quebec is a nation thing today but then I found out that Kennedy’s Alberta team has “an affinity” for Michael Ignatieff (according to Senator Grant Mitchell) so, as part of my newfound affinity for Michael, I’ll lay off of him for today. Besides, I’ve […]

Today, I continue my series on PC leadership candidates with one of the serious contenders, Lyle Oberg. Thanks to Hatrock for the South Park pictures.Lying Lyle Oberg Lyle’s Platform. He’s promising massive tax cuts, paid for by slowing the increase in health spending. In 30 words or less: Long time Cabinet Minister who was never […]

I’ve talked a lot about Liberal Leadership lately but I suspect things may quiet down on that front over the next few weeks. So, for the Tories who visit this blog and are sick of reading about those god damn Liberals, I’m going to spend a bit of time talking about the provincial PC leadership […]

I’ll confess I had a tough time paying attention to the Liberal leadership debate yesterday. Maybe it was because of the translation (I decided to just listen on CPAC en francais after hearing our translator argue with himself for an hour). Maybe it was leadership fatigue. Maybe the show in Toronto last weekend was too […]

The final DEM numbers are now up on Liberal.ca. It should be noted that these results don’t take the Rae funny business in BC into account. And they don’t take the backfill spots into account (for those not familiar with the Liberal delegate election system…it’d take a 13,000 word post to explain it, so I […]

I think Stephen Harper may be on to something with his vow to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions by 50% by the year 2050. All too often, politicians paint themselves into corners with promises which they are expected to deliver on during their time in office (or, during their lifetime for that matter). By giving himself […]

What a typical Peter MacKay flip-flop. One year he says “dogs are loyal”, implying Belinda Stronach isn’t loyal. The next year he’s comparing her to a dog. Does this mean that he now thinks she’s loyal? Or has he changed his position on the loyalty of dogs? Which is it Peter? I don’t think it’s […]