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Pope Benedict has decided to weigh in on Canada’s domestic politics: “In the name of tolerance, your country has had to endure the folly of the redefinition of spouse, and in the name of freedom of choice it is confronted with the daily destruction of unborn children,” the Pope told a group of bishops from […]

Consider this a minor update to my first round ballot projections…or, more appropriately, a correction. It seems, I had the wrong formula in my excel spreadsheet for calculating existing support, which caused a few numbers to be skewed. I’ve corrected this and also gone through and used the most recent blogger endorsement (and for those […]

Rick Bell has a great article raking the provincial PCs over the coals in today’s Calgary Sun. Yes, that would be the same Calgary Sun which feels Ted Morton is too much of a pinko commie to run this province. Among the highlights: From the party who brought us the problem, they tell us they […]

I’ll be posting revised leadership projections later tonight after I found a small glitch in my original formula. Until then, here’s a look at the news: 1. He’s baaaaaack! I must say, I can’t wait for Monday Report the Rick Mercer Report to start airing again next month. Until then, Rick is back and blogging. […]

Thanks to a little help from his friends, Preston Manning emerged victorious last week in the “Best Prime Minister We Never Had” poll. While the contest did help to illustrate the problems of reading meaningful results from any form of Internet poll, I had a lot of fun running it and I hope it helped […]

After a fun sojourn across Hungary, I have returned to cowtown, so you can expect posting to resume at it’s usual pace. It should be a busy September with a crowded fall agenda on the Parliamentary horizon and the Liberal leadership race heating up. In the coming days, I’ll get some house cleaning posts out […]

(I drafted this a few weeks ago, saving it for a time like now when I wouldn’t have time to write anything new and/or interesting) While Iran’s role in the international community is ambiguous, the country has taken a huge step forward in the blogging community. Yes, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a blog. He’s no […]

This actually really surprised me. Of the ten candidates remaining, there was only one who I thought might not run in the next election for the Liberals should he lose, and it wasn’t Michael. Maybe this is just another case of Ignatieff choosing his words poorly but I certainly do hope that all ten candidates […]

So far this leadership campaign, I’ve been linking to Gerard Kennedy’s policy announcements and maybe adding one or two insightful words (“Gerard likes the environment. So do I!”). However, his Afghanistan announcement yesterday is definitely worthy of a post of it’s own, for a few reasons: 1. It’s a major stand on a hot button […]

I’d really intended to take a longer break from the blog while on vacation but seeing as how I find Liblogs more addictive than crack, that was probably unrealistic. Luckily, the Hungarian media here has a great fascination with Canadian politics so I’ve been able to stay somewhat up to date on what’s been going […]