Calgary Grit

I’m going to be incommunicado for the next few days, taking some much needed vacation time (I hear Hungary is beautiful this time of the year…). Here’s the final round matchup for Greatest PM We Never Had. I figure between this and the leadership projections, that should give people enough to talk about in the […]

One interesting thing about leadership races is that you never know for sure how strong the respective candidates are doing. The media loves to go on about momentum and anoint frontrunners but the truth is that few journalists are really plugged in to the inner workings of the Liberal Party. What decides these races is […]

I’ll have some comments to add once I get time to read through it myself, but anyone interested can take a look at the red ribbon renewal report at Public Eye Online.

1. Gerard Kennedy has released some more platform material, aimed at improving the economic situation of female Canadians. Included in this is a goal to dramatically increase Canadian spending on childcare and early learning so that it reaches 0.7% of Canada’s GDP by the year 2012. 2. More importantly, the man can draw. 3. Ahh…the […]

A few people were asking me why, as a vocal Kennedy supporter, I haven’t weighed in on the the whole Thomas Hubert/Borys AlphabetSoup case of Middle East foot in mouth disease. Well, my main reason is that I’ve been fairly busy over the past few days (and will be for the next few). But, more […]

I haven’t seen this on the news yet, but it appears that Leslie Swartman has quit as Scott Brison’s National Director. While this certainly isn’t great news for Scott, it does likely mean that reports he plans to pull the plug on his campaign soon aren’t true, as it wouldn’t make much sense to resign […]

I’ve already run an alternative history of Preston Manning, and Frank McKenna’s alternative history can be summed up in about a line: “Frank McKenna decided to run for Liberal leadership in 2006. He won.”Far more interesting are the other two members of the final four – George Etienne Cartier and Robert Stanfield. Both men came […]

I think I’ve made it pretty clear in the past that I really dislike David Orchard. He’s socially conservative. He’s against gun control. He advocates that we more than triple our military spending. He’s got some very odd foreign policy positions. Most of all, the virulent anti-free trade and anti-Americanism that he and his supporters […]

Somewhat fittingly, three NDPers went down to defeat in the quarter-finals and the final 4 are set:A 19th Century Conservative who lived in John A’s shadow.A successful Liberal Premier who didn’t want the top job.A grass roots reformer who was booted as party leader for Stockwell Day.And the underwear salesman who couldn’t catch a football. […]

–Liberal.ca has a make-over and, I must say, I think the new site is a big improvement. -After talking to some people who were at a Bob Rae event in Edmonton last night, I’d be willing to put down any amount of money that Anne McLellan will be joining the Rae team once her work […]