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I don’t know about you, but I’m hitting the stores today to save my 1%!!! With Stampede around the corner, I need a new outfit and the prospect of saving 1.64$ on it is too much to pass up!

Lost last week in the Stephen Harper’s “is Quebec a nation” dance, was Liberal leadership front runner Michael Ignatieff’s take on the question: “Quebec is a nation, not just a nation, but a civic nation.” – Michael Ignatieff To me, this is farther than any prominent federal Liberal has gone in the past. In Ignatieff’s […]

Tories may have taken $2M in illicit donationsUpdated Wed. Jun. 28 20066:13 PM ETCanadian Press OTTAWA — The Conservative party may have illegally accepted millions in unreported donations last year because it didn’t understand political financing laws. That’s the startling conclusion drawn from testimony given to a Senate committee by the Harper administration’s point man […]

In wake of the PQ being implicated in their own little Adscam, some shocking poll numbers have come out of Quebec: Lib 37PQ 33ADQ 17 Looks like Andre Boisclair has his work cut out for him. UPDATE: Well, that was fun while it lasted. Via CROP: PQ: 35Lib: 32

Her?-Various Arrested Development characters Age: 64 Background: Hedy was born in Trinidad & Tobago. However, I have been unable to confirm anywhere whether or not she is a Trinidadian or a Tobagan. Like Carolyn Bennett, she has a medical background. Political History: As she is so fond of reminding everyone, Hedy defeated Prime Minister Kim […]

1) Trouble on the Rock 2) Meanwhile, the money is flowing in Alberta. It will be interesting to see the PC leadership candidates all come out with detailed plans about what they intend to do with the embarrassingly large surplus. Ha ha ha! 3) That said, under Dalton McGuinty’s latest plan, more money would be […]

I don’t want people to think that I’m obsessed with David Orchard or anything but:a) there’s a lot of talk about the guy in Albertab) his continued presence in the Liberal Party kind of bugs me Anyways, I was at the “Three Amigos” BBQ, listening to the music stylings of Misters Chase, Swann and Taylor […]

The National’s At Issue panel did their “end of school” recap last night, looking back at the highs and lows of the last parliamentary session. Mansbridge asked the pundits a series of questions and, since bloggers see themselves as pundits, I figure I’ll play along. Besides, it’s either this or another post on Senate reform […]

A lot of people are saying the Liberals lacked guts with their abstention on the NDP motion calling for Rona Ambrose to resign. Personally, I find a motion asking for a Cabinet Minister to resign because of five months of inaction and dithering pretty asinine. If any Cabinet Minister who was perceived as being incompetent […]

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