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I’m still a little undecided on the whole issue of Liberal Leadership candidates attacking each other. Apparently, so too are the candidates. It’s interesting to see the two strategies being used: Exhibit A Volpe suggested that Ignatieff would give the U.S. government more influence in Canadian foreign policy than is warranted. Exhibit BFrom Carolyn Bennett’s […]

I think I must be the only person who really doesn’t care very strongly one way or the other about the Afghanistan vote the other night. Everyone I’ve talked to, in person and on-line, has been incredibly vocal: “The Liberal Party is hopelessly divided!”“Harper is a warmonger!”“The Liberal Party is full of cowards!”“Michael Ignatieff and […]

Liberal Leadership candidate Carolyn Bennett has offered to guest blog on this site and I thought I’d take her up on the offer since it’s far too nice outside for me to actually think up and write a post myself. I gave her the topic of democratic reform and how technology is affecting the political […]

Preston says no. Jim Dinning breathes a sigh of relief that he won’t have to fight a real race or debate ideas.

Sheila Fraser’s report on the gun registry is set to land tomorrow and early leaks are that it will say that there were a lot of problems but that things are reasonably under control now. So, of course, the logical conclusion the Tories will jump to is to…axe the gun registry. Huh? Yes, CTV is […]

It sounds like David Orchard was at the Bob Rae event in Saskatchewan yesterday and was clapping quite enthusiastically. It’s a fairly safe bet that no one saw that alliance coming a year ago – at least not in the context of a Liberal leadership race. In Other News… NDP MP Nathan Cullen has apologized […]

There’s a lot of buzz on the blogs about the Globe & Mail front page story on bilingualism among Liberal Party candidates. Even the “friends of Joe Volpe” sent me a copy of the article (how I got on that list bewilders me). In typical Globe fashion, the front page screams “Six Liberal contenders don’t […]

1. It’s a very complex blog. 2. BBG calls it “whack a Liberal day“. First we get news that the Tories plan to sue the Liberals. I may be the only person in the Liberal Party who isn’t a lawyer so I don’t want to comment but I have a very hard time seeing how […]

1. Stephen Harper has his first casualty as Maurice Vellacott resigns. It may not be as exciting a way to go as over Romanian strippers, but I’m sure it still hurts. 2. If anyone can find a picture of Diane Finley with the horrifying glasses she keeps wearing to QP, I’ll be forever grateful. (UPDATE: […]

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”-Plato Age: 46 Background: Martha won a silver medal at the 1976 Canadian Ski Championship. If she’d been an NHL goalie, we’d all know who she was but, unfortunately, skiing doesn’t get a lot of media […]