Calgary Grit

With the Christmas break fast approaching, the question now becomes how the three campaigns (well…four…we shouldn’t forget Jack) will handle the January dash to the finish line. Stephen Taylor, who has been doing a great job blogging this election, has obtained what appears to be outlines of the Liberals “Phase Two” strategy. Not surprisingly, they […]

I’m not sure if the campaign is up and running again, but Right of Center Ice seems to imply it is.

I hate going off-topic, but with Christmas around the corner and my reluctance to dissect Stephen Harper’s northern Arctic miltary defense spend….zzz….. Oh, sorry. Anyways, I’ve decided to skate off topic on this one. As you know, Team Canada was announced yesterday. And, with Gilles Duceppe’s comments on Quebec getting their own sports team, I […]

Continuing my Quebec theme this evening, this is interesting. I can’t see a Duceppe-Harper debate on unity happening; I suspect there would be problems with the election laws. But it’s an interesting proposition. On the one hand, it’s somewhat irresponsible for Harper to be doing this. It plays into the entire “referendum election” mentality and […]

In candid moments with confidants, the Prime Minister [Chretien] would accuse Martin of being soft on separatists and too eager to grant concessions to the provinces. -Susan Delacourt (p.98 Juggernaut) Say what you will about a CBC bias, but Terry Milewski has a biting report tonight which can be seen here. In it, we see […]

How’s that referendum election working out for you Paul? Bloc 60%Lib 20%Con 8%NDP 8%

-Jib-Jab has George W. Bush’s Year and Review up here. -Anyone else notice that Scott Reid has been benched from all the pundit shows…and seemingly has been replaced by John Duffy? I really don’t see why Duffy hasn’t gotten any flack for repeating Reid’s comments – Reid can blame it on a poor choice of […]

The schedules are out and it looks like it will be a very minimal cease fire. Like, three days. From the sound of things, Harper and Martin will be taking Christmas Eve through Boxing Day off and then will be right back campaigning. With Ben and Rachal out of school, I strongly suspect we’ll be […]

With Christmas fast approaching, here’s a Christmas rhyme – apologies to Dr. Seuss. They stared down at the pollsTories covered their eyes!Then they gasped!What they saw was a shocking surprise! Every poll from the pollsters, Leger to SES,Had them losing! Despite this whole sponsorship mess!They HADN’T stopped Dithers from winning,HE LED!Despite income trusts, he was […]

Oh good…Stephen Harper wants to give Quebec a voice in foreign affairs. You know, it’d sure be nice if there was at least one federalist party running in this campaign. I posted this last spring, but it’s probably worth throwing back up, especially given some recent events. This was my prediction for the election…back when […]