Calgary Grit

The first of the Liberal Leadership polls I’ve been dreading has been released. You can read the article for the results and the four “frontrunners” score surprisingly close. But I won’t post the results from this poll, or any other similar ones, because these are dangerous polls that people should completely ignore. They are based […]

Tory MP Colin Mayes has made retracted comments that journalists who write distorted articles should be thrown in jail. Paul Jackson better start looking for a good lawyer…

I found this e-mail update on the LPCA convention’s leadership panel quite interesting: Belinda Stronach will not participate in the panel because she is not yet a declared candidate. Yet, despite this, at last count, nearly 10 non-declared leadership candidates will be participating in the panel…

A new propaganda book entitled Let’s Talk About Sovereignty At School is out and drawing quite the reaction. No surprise. Among the problems the book asks kids to do: They are asked to make decorations for Quebec’s national holiday on June 24, and the book’s illustration is a child’s drawing of a Quebec flag on […]

There’s certainly been some selective reading on my first few leadership posts. After calling the IT scandal the “kiss of death” for Scott Brison, I got comments like “you’re right, the Income Trust stuff will blow over”. After my Ignatieff post which I concluded with “the reward isn’t worth the risk”, two or three blogs […]

John Ibbitson has a column today which shows just how disconnected from reality Garth Turner truly is. Consider the following: For Mr. Turner, however, the little guy is the bleeding upper middle class. Halton, on the edge of Greater Toronto, is full of them: Mr. Turner chronicled their plight in his speech. He recalled talking […]

Gerard Kennedy was out west this weekend and, having never met him before, I decided to see what the hype was all about. The Calgary reception he did was very well organized, with glossy little contact cards, and I certainly got the sense that he was running. His speaking style was very natural and he […]

Warren Kinsella leads the charge against Michael Ignatieff’s latest article on torture. Even though it probably would have been a more enjoyable use of my time to be strapped in the Iron Maiden, I decided to read the full article. And, after doing so, I fail to see what the fuss is about. It’s obviously […]

And so the list of Liberal leadership candidates who did not hold a Liberal membership three years ago grows…

It’s somewhat fascinating to watch Stephen Harper kiss away all the good will he built up during the election campaign. First, he pissed all over the “doing politics differently” line which he’d promoted. This was probably inevitable since any politician who has ever promised to “do politics differently” has eventually realized how difficult it is […]