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I’m really not a big fan of tax cuts so Ralph’s budget economic update doesn’t have me exceedingly thrilled. I also find it odd that Harper’s 18 billion dollar tax cut package was attacked as a recipe for deficit last campaign and now Goodale is ready to dish out 30 billion in tax breaks. That […]

The saying here in Calgary is “if you don’t like the weather, wait 15 minutes“. Given the past week, I think Ottawa should adopt “if you don’t like the election speculation, wait 15 minutes“. We’ve seen so many possible election dates bandied around over the past week, that’s it’s almost become futile to speculate on […]

A few things making news this weekend… 1. Deborah Coyne has announced she will be running against Jack Layton in the upcoming election. Coyne was one of Clyde Wells’ key advisors during the Meech Lake saga and I would love to see her tag team with Jean Lapierre on the National Unity file following the […]

It seems a day doesn’t go by anymore without a few new twists and turns. Among today’s developments: 1. The Conservatives will use their opposition day to introduce a motion calling on the House to re-resume on January 4th, on an opposition day. I think most people can figure out what they’d use that opposition […]

The Liberals will turn their fiscal update into a mini-budget on Monday, chalk full of tax cuts. While I’m not too big on this idea myself and it completely contradicts everything Martin said during the last election, it’s a smart play to remove the tax cut issue from the CPC. It worked in 2000 after […]

Jack Layton is now the man with the plan. Jack has announced the NDP will be proposing a motion on their opposition day for an early January election call, triggering a February vote. Before everyone jumps in with their opinion on this, I’m going on record to say this plan is extremelly clever and it […]

Andrew, at Bound by Gravity, is signing off the air, closing down his blog. This was really disappointing to see. Since I first stumbled across Bound by Gravity, it’s been a blog I’ve made sure to check out on a daily basis. In my opinion, Andrew has been one of the most fair and balanced […]

Developments for Tuesday, November 8th: Top News 1. Stephen Harper is undecided as to how he will vote on the December 8th spending estimates, a confidence vote. 2. Jack, however, has said he will vote against the spending estimates on the 8th. Huh? So now the NDP is against the Liberal budget and the Tories […]

The Colbert Report has come to Canada! Stephen had a great commentary on Canada last night that everyone should take a look at. Follow the link and click on the “hoser” video. On a similar note, Monday Report resumes tonight…on…err…Tuesday.

Allan Gregg has another poll out and the Liberals are back up to their usual 35-28 lead (with the NDP down to 16, which may give Layton pause). Despite this, I think Harper and Layton still need to go. Unless the economy really takes a sharp downturn, there is no way things will get any […]