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Although most of it got lost in the press during what was one of Paul Martin’s worst weeks as Prime Minister, the Liberal post-secondary announcement on Thursday is a step in the right direction. Paying half the first and final year of tuition will help encourage University accessibility, and the more University educated students Canada […]

Are you afraid of having Stephen Harper as your Prime Minister? Nothing else matters anymore. I don’t want to call the election because a lot can change in two weeks but it’s safe to say the Liberal government has defeated itself. Nothing they do over the last two weeks will change that. It’s been a […]

I got a good laugh out of this.

Lost in the shuffle over the latest RCMP investigation was this: Still, Mr. Dauphin has hired a spokesman in advance of the publication of Mr. Lester’s book, The Secrets of Option Canada, which is due to be released next week. Ouch. What this means is that in the second to last week of the campaign, […]

The Tories are jumping up in the polls, and it’s on the strength of…wait for it…Quebec?!?!LegerBQ 45Lib 26CPC 16NDP 10 SESBQ 51Lib 24CPC 15NDP 7 EkosBQ 44Lib 22CPC 20NDP 10 While the Ekos may be an outlier, it certainly appears that Harper is making a dent in Quebec. UPDATE: I tend to think this won’t […]

You can see my bon voyage to 2004 here. I’ve always felt year in reviews were a nice excuse to write something during a very slow news period but, even though the election campaign is coming down the stretch, it’s probably worth looking back at the year that was. Best Picture of 2005: Was it […]

Progressive Bloggers are taking nominations for the political nut of the year.

SES has the Tories up 36-33 (although, given the rolling nature of the poll, they’ll drop a very good day for the Tories tomorrow so I suspect we’ll see the two parties within a point of a each other), while Gregg has the two parties in a dead heat: 32-32. Paul Wells mentioned how the […]

While I’ve been fairly critical of the Liberal campaign (much to the chagrin of my Liberal readers), I’ve been fairly critical of Conservative policy (much to the chagrin of my Tory readers). However, the one piece of policy the Conservatives are proposing that I really like is the Federal Accountability Act. Harper elaborated on the […]

From today’s Globe… McKenna, Manley already laying groundwork for Liberal leadership? By JANE TABERJanuary 3, 2006Globe and Mail The body isn’t even warm yet, and already there are at least two senior Liberals — Frank McKenna and John Manley — who insiders say are quietly gearing up their leadership campaigns. The fact this is happening […]