Calgary Grit

We’re now getting word that “non-partisan” David Emerson helped delay a softwood lumber deal with the United States for partisan reasons. Sure, the Martin PMO helped, but we expect duplicity and incompetence from them so their role in this isn’t really news. First of all, I have a hard time believing that this was part […]

Interesting… Given that he’s been copying Martin at every opportunity since taking office, here’s my bold prediction for this week: Harper claims he’s “Mad as Hell”.Calls inquiry into Airbus Scandal.Appoints Eddie Goldenberg as chief counsel.

Huzzah! No doubt encouraged by Harper’s first days in power, the high profile names are now stampeding towards the Liberal Party leadership. The first to declare? Martha Hall Findley. Yes, THE Martha Hall Findley. OK, OK. In all seriousness, she has a pretty good bio: Martha is a successful, well-respected lawyer, businesswoman and entrepreneur, with […]

…You have nothing to lose but your credibility! Magnanimous in the Great White North has compiled a list of Conservative bloggers who have…well…I’ll let him explain: The issue of David Emerson’s appointment to Stephen Harper’s cabinet has most conservative bloggers furious. A doughty band of brother and sister bloggers have staked out the hill opposite, […]

Stephen Harper has raised the prospect of Quebec being given a “transition period” while Harper slowly takes apart what Ken Dryden would have you believe is a national child care program. This raises a very important question: “Why is it that the province with the fewest strings in their child care agreement needs the most […]

Gordon O’Connor has come under some scrutiny for his lobbying work in the military industry. Harper has been quick to defend his new Minister: “having worked in an industry in the past does constitute a conflict of interest” …unless you’re a low level assistant to the western desk, that is. It certainly is odd that […]

The Tory Cabinet may be richer, but the blogging community is poorer. Monte Solberg calls it quits.

On CPAC, just now, John Reynolds was in a scrum outside the House. When asked about how he reconciles Harper’s actions with the fact they ran on an accountability platform, Reynolds answered: “Campaigns are Campaigns”UPDATE: More gems of honesty. This time, from the Minister of Public Works: “I didn’t run, because I didn’t want to […]

Memories… There are three critical reforms. First, we need to get on with modernizing our upper house. We should get on with the job of electing senators. Secondly, we want fair, fixed election dates, not dates chosen simply for the partisan political interests of the Prime Minister. And finally we want to clean up internal […]