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I think Bob Rae may just have found a winning strategy for this leadership race. For the entire campaign, the concern has always been that when thinking of Bob Rae, Ontarians would remember nothing but his record as NDP Premier. However anyone who watched the Rick Mercer Report last night isn’t going to remember anything […]

Paul Jackson writes an ode to Rob Anders in today’s Sun which is something else. In it, he recounts his hard hitting interview with Anders which starts with something along the lines of “tell me why you’re the greatest MP in your riding’s history”. Rob and Paul then go on to discuss why Liberalism is […]

With Super Weekend behind us, I intend to look a bit more at the Alberta PC leadership race over the coming days. The Globe has an excellent run down on the wild west lawlessness associated with the race. Say what you will about the federal Liberal race, but if any of these PC candidates come […]

Linda Diebel has a good profile of Gerard Kennedy in the Star today. In it you can find some rather “colourful” praise from Bruce Young and a few quotes from yours truly (although, for the record, I never compared Gerard to Trudeau).

1. Joan Bryden reports on the massive recount in Quebec which, one imagines, will trim a few delegates off the totals of the three front runners in that province. More alarmingly, the story claims that only 10% of Liberal Party members voted at their delegate meetings. With 37000 card carrying Liberals in Quebec, that means […]

Maybe it’d be different if I lived in Ontario, but this has me a lot more upset than this. I can put up with the social conservatism, hawkish foreign affairs stands, cancellation of social programs, voodoo economics, and lax gun control. But if there’s one thing I simply won’t tolerate in a Prime Minister it’s […]

I know I’ve been talking a lot about Liberal leadership lately, but this one story has forced me to come back to the real world and blog about the important issues of the day. For those who may have missed it, those bloody activist judges have continued their affront on values and have overturned the […]

This post is really nothing more than an exercise in self-congratulation, but I’d just like to point out that my Liberal leadership predictions were way better than anything put out by the MSM or major polling companies. Political Mouse does the comparison and, while Greg Morrow comes out on top, every blogger who put out […]

It’s abundantly obvious that the one knock on Gerard Kennedy’s candidacy at this point will be the “Quebec issue”. To be frank, his French is a lot worse than that of the other frontrunners and his performance in La Belle Province this weekend was embarrassing. I think the criticisms of his French are fair. This […]

I’m still recovering from what was a very busy couple of days. Before I give my run-down on what happened, I’d like to do what the hip kids these days call a “shout out”, to a few people. First off, a big thanks to everyone I signed up who came out and voted for Gerard […]