Calgary Grit

A reader writes in with the following suggestion: I think you should host a thread on people’s fantasy liberal leaders. Dead or alive, fictional or real, canadian or convince-to-immigrate. I’ve had this chat with some of my friends and heard some good responses. After all, there’s no reason the LPC shouldn’t be able to attract […]

On another note, since Quebec has Senate seats, will the candidates run in their “ridings”? Or will it be done province wide? If so, will the winning candidates simply buy 4,000$ worth of property in certain ridings? Will the parties try to put forward candidates from different regions in the province? Will the Conservatives hire […]

Ralph Klein is certainly an equal opportunity shit disturber – he’s determined to cause Stephen Harper as much grief as he ever caused Paul Martin and Jean Chretien. After costing him the 2004 election, and predicting Harper would lose in 2006, he’s now let it slip that Senate elections may be on the way this […]

David Emerson is in the news again, with his claim that he could win a by-election. With this one day story into week 4, I’d just like to voice my support for a law to force MPs to run in by-elections if they cross the floor. I don’t have a problem with an MP quitting […]

You can read play by play of the Supreme Court quasi-hearings here.

While Canadians have picked up Golds, Silvers, and Bronzes, those three medals alone cannot fully recognize all of the achievements at these Olympic games. So it is with great pleasure that I present a series of other awards to the Olympians: The “Victory March Down Central Alberta” Award: This award is presented for downright stupid […]

-You can add Marlene Jennings to the list of rumoured candidates, according to this news story. -“On Veut Michael” joins the growing list of leadership blogs. This one certainly looks like a professional site, so I’m guessing it’s not just some PoliSci geek who likes Michael’s books doing it for kicks. -Speaking of all but […]

The Liberals announced their Shadow Cabinet today and I guess you can call it an “evening shadow”, since the 26 man Tory Cabinet has given birth to a shadow Cabinet of well over 40 individuals. Throw in the helper monkeys and it seems that over 85 Liberals MPs now have tasks; you’ve got to wonder […]

While my good mood might soon disappear if Team Canada can’t come through against Russia this afternoon, I’m feeling some mighty fine schadenfreude after reading this news story.

Last week, I opened it up for suggestions on the direction the Liberal Party should take. There were a lot of great ideas tossed around. The most common themes I could pick out were: -Funding of post-secondary education as part of a larger innovation strategy-Promoting environmental sustainability In my opinion, both of these would make […]