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I’ve taken some time before commenting on the Middle East situation because it’s not my forté and it’s one of those explosive topics where a single wrong word is sure to upset people. Even after reading 50 billion news stories on the topic today, I probably know more about the relationship between Britney Spears and […]

A few tid-bits from here and there.. –Stephen Taylor has an interview up with Paul Wells on his site. I must say, I’m on tenterhooks in anticipation of Paul’s book which will also chronicle Martin and Harper taking over their own parties. Wells also talks about what he perceives to be a very strong Ignatieff-Rae […]

You can read the first two parts of my interview with Stephane Dion here and here. Today, a quick run-down of what Mr. Dion had to say on a wide range of topics: On Education“I know one candidate wants to be Prime Minister to deal with education but he had 40% of the students in […]

While Stephane mentions the environment more than anything else in his campaign (“Speaking of North Korea’s nuclear threats, they’ve made great strides with their recycling program over there“), I was most interested to talk to him about federalism. While I know he’d disagree with me, I think his performance as environment minister was a bit […]

One of the best new blogs out there, The Frog Lady, is in the process of creating South Park characters for the Liberal leadership contenders. She’s come up with some brilliant designs so far. I don’t think I need to label them since it’s fairly obvious who is who, but here are my favourites so […]

Stephane Dion has come out with a proposal designed to increase the number of female candidates the Liberal Party runs in general elections. Increasing the number of women in Parliament is an admirable goal…just as it would be an admirable goal to increase the number of minorities, aboriginals, young MPs, and people from diverse career […]

I had a chance to sit down with Stephane Dion over the weekend, after the Hays breakfast on Sunday, to talk about his leadership bid. First off, let me offer a big thanks to Stephane’s Alberta team who were really nice and gave me well over an hour with their candidate on what must have […]

-Adam Radwanski has a good article on cleaning up leadership races. Here’s the crux of it: To really achieve clean leadership campaigns, along with fair nomination races for local candidates, would require an overhaul of our entire concept of party membership. Rather than sending out recruiters with stacks of membership forms to try to collect […]

Oh Ralph, how I’ll miss you. “You get a lot of free dinners, but after that you get sort of tired [of being Premier], especially when you quit drinking and then it’s no fun at all. I don’t know why they would want to do it other than the power and the glory I guess […]