Calgary Grit

1. Rick Mercer is pushing “beer, not kids” on an online petition, reminiscent of “Doris Day”. 2. Cerberus looks at more Harper tax cuts. 3. I also recently came across Derision 2006, a satirical site looking at the election. Among the headlines: “Scott Reid hires own communications director”, “Martin pledges ‘total ban’ on crime”, and […]

Allan Gregg seems to be the one hold-out pollsters who has the race neck and neck. In the latest Strategic Counsel poll, it’s down to 33-31, with Canadians “screaming out” for change. On the other side, SES, Decima, Pollara, Ipsos-Reid, Leger, and (I can only assume) Ekos, all have the spread between the two parties […]

I’ve made my thoughts on Scott Reid’s comments well known so I won’t rehash them here. However, I’d like to jump into the child care debate a little bit, because of a lot of the reaction to Reid’s comments I’ve been reading. A lot of bloggers and a lot of pundits have been talking about […]

Each of the three federalist parties are in the news today: Liberals: David Wilkins has given Paul a slap on the wrist for dragging the US into the Canadian election. Wilkins says he understands it’s good politics to be fighting with the Americans…so he decided to fight with Paul Martin. Way to play into David […]

At his press gallery dinner speech, Jack Layton said “the NDP isn’t funny”. Well, they’ve proven everyone wrong this campaign. I was going to come up with a debate night drinking game, but the NDP has beat me to the punch with “debate BINGO“. Five Paul Martin catch phrases in a row and you win.

There’s a lot of debate about just how damaging Scott Reid’s “beer and popcorn” comments will turn out to be. I think these comments will have a fairly major impact for the following ten, count ’em 10, reasons. 1. It’s snappy. Beer and popcorn rolls off your lips and makes for great water cooler talk. […]

I always assumed Liberals in Calgary had it the worst. Several campaigns may not have the money for campaign office. The election readiness chair doesn’t have call waiting. The candidate in Calgary West spent 80% of the nomination meeting speculating about laying criminal charges against Jean Chretien. So, yeah…it’s bad. But it looks like it […]

Two weeks down. The Liberals are up in the polls, but there are a lot of storm clouds brewing on the horizon for them. I still think the election is a 50/50 proposition. Here’s my week 2 recap: Weekly Winner: Bernard Lord. This was a tough one since no one came out of the week […]

The results are in, and the Accordion Guy pulled off a 10 vote win over us for top blog in the Canadian Blog Awards. Anne McLellan would be proud. We were also second for best post series, losing out to rookie phenom Buckets of Grewal. However, I’m very pleased to have taken home “Best Progressive […]

No doubt Stephen Harper’s migraine is starting grow as he flashes back to 2004, after controversial comments by Brian Pallister. Pallister, it seems, felt it would be a barrel of laughs to call his non-answer a “woman’s decision“. But, not to be outdone, Scott Reid has jumped into the gaffe pool by claiming that parents […]