Calgary Grit

I’m working on a post to try and gauge where the leadership candidates are at in terms of support province by province. I’ve got the news stories, wikipedia endorsements, fundraising numbers, etc, and have chatted around to people I know on different campaigns. But the more information, the better so anyone who wants to send […]

1. Vic Toews is proposing to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 10. I’m surprised he hasn’t proposed raising it to 55 so that he can get that nasty charge for breaking provincial Election Finance Laws off his record. As for the proposal itself, I’m willing to bet Joe Volpe sends out a press […]

Maurizio Bevilacqua becomes the first candidate to drop out of the Liberal leadership race, no doubt for financial reasons. I’ve always been very impressed with Maurizio and he was certainly among the best 3 or 4 candidates in this race, in my opinion. He’s certainly a future Finance Minister and, one would imagine, this may […]

While no one has cracked 60% in round 2 voting, the closest race appears to be the political spectrum spanning matchup of Preston Manning versus Roy Romanow (a mere 20 vote gap at last check). Here’s my profile of the matchup: Preston Manning (2) OK. Everyone together now: “Refoooooooooooorm!” That felt good. While there are […]

For anyone looking to kill some time at work, here are a few posts and stories to check out: 1. In the best named blog since “Buckets of Grewal“, a long time reader of this blog has launched “Any Idiot Can Have A Blog“. I’m not sure I agree with all points in his mission […]

Greatest Prime Minister We Never Had – Round 2 Matchup 1 bio Robert Stanfield bio Peter Lougheed Matchup 2 bio George Etienne Cartier bio Tommy Douglas Matchup 3 bio Preston Manning bio Roy Romanow Matchup 4 bio Frank McKenna bio Ed Broadbent (view results) The second round is set. You can see the full first […]

It looks like it’s gonna be a nail biter in Connecticut: Precincts Reporting: 76.87% # votes %Lieberman (101,818) 48.24Lamont (109,239) 51.76UPDATE: Lamont wins! But Liberman to run as an independent (where he will, one imagines, win). With close to 300,000 people voting in this primary, I think this only further illustrates how the Primary system […]

In a surprising move, Stephen Harper has appointed Wajid Khan as his special advisor on South Asia and the Middle East. That’s Liberal MP Wajid Khan. Khan will continue to sit as a Liberal so this is either: a) a great gesture of bipartisanship by the Prime Ministerb) an ingenious plot by Harper which makes […]

A few thoughts, some of them from old news, on this holiday Monday: 1. The Tories will only let candidates who have lost in the past two elections run for them if they defend themselves to the party. It’s a good thing they didn’t have this rule back when John Diefenbaker was getting started. 2. […]