Calgary Grit

What’s the old saying about elections being decided by the time BC results come in? Well, in this instance, the delay was a bit more than 3 hours, but BC has finally reported their delegate totals (pending appeals related to the Bob Rae funny business). With 23 ridings to go, the Liberal delegate totals sit […]

In a move everyone has seen as inevitable for months, maverick MP Garth Turner has finally been suspended from the Tory caucus. I know Turner is a bit of a cult hero to many bloggers but I personally never cared much for the man. His criticisms of Harper’s Cabinet selection rang a bit hollow given […]

Looks like an outlier to me, but here’s the latest Gregg poll: Lib 32%CPC 32%NDP 17%BQ 11%Green 9% While Gregg also has a “John Kerry poll” out on Liberal leadership, judging from his numbers, there’s only one conclusion which can be reached: The best person to lead the Liberal Part is…Elizabeth May!

Lady luck shines on Iggy. Ignatieff trip to Middle East cancelledOct. 17, 2006. 06:46 PMCANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Michael Ignatieff’s attempt to douse controversy over his views on Middle East conflict were stymied today when his invitation to visit Israel was postponed until after the Liberal leadership race. The Canada-Israel Committee didn’t want an all-party […]

1. It almost seems cruel to pile on after the week he’s had, but Rick Mercer gets a few good zingers in at Ignatieff in his latest post. 2. I got a link to this from the Liberal party today. It seems to still be a work in progress but it’s good to see the […]

This was, hands down, the most entertaining debate of the five we’ve seen in this leadership race. Here’s the recap: Pre-DebateThe show got started when a girl paraded by in a bikini carrying a sign (about income trusts? huh?)…better her than Bob Rae. Then we get an old guy with a microphone screaming something but, […]

It seems that Jim has hired Scott Reid to be his new communications director: Jim Dinning says it’s time governments recognized the cost of post-secondary education includes not just tuition fees, but other costly items like accommodation and transportation – and beer. “Today students have to cobble together a budget that doesn’t reflect the full […]

This is certainly a rather unconventional strategy. Liberal leadership front-runner Michael Ignatieff says he’ll travel to the Middle East next month in the wake of comments that have enraged Canada’s Jewish community and members of his own party. “We will be meeting with the Israeli prime minister and Palestinian leaders to discuss peace, long-term solutions […]

Despite some encouraging leaks about mandatory targets, the early reviews of the Conservative Green Plan seem to be mostly negative. A lot of the criticism seems to stem on the fact that the targets will be intensity based rather than fixed caps, which means emissions will continue to rise over the next few years. Here […]

From today’s Post: “I was a professor of human rights, and I am also a professor of the laws of war, and what happened in Qana was a war crime, and I should have said that. That’s clear.” Leslie Church, director of communications for the Ignatieff campaign, said that even though he prefaced his comment […]