Calgary Grit

One of the more entertaining blogs out there, Capitalist Pig vs. Socialist Swine, wades into the debate on the NDP’s next platform here. The porkster first comments on the ideas raised by Koby at Progressive Bloggers, which I’ll repost here: 1) 5 weeks of vacation for all Canadians 2) Free dental care for all Canadians […]

Stageleft has come out with an interesting idea – a blog-o-pedia to keep track of the many, many blogs out there. If you’ve got a blog, sign up.

We’re halfway through the first round of voting for Greatest Prime Minister. With over 1,000 votes in, the Trudeau/Clark and Borden/Pearson matchups are virtual dead heats while King, MacDonald, Laurier, Chretien, Mulroney, and Diefenbaker are poised to advance to the second round. Since I’m only allowing one vote per computer, I decided to give everyone […]

Every weekend, I’ll also be looking at one of the more interesting matchups since one of the points of this contest is to learn a little more about Canadian history. A lot of the focus has been on the Trudeau/Clark matchup and you can read some comments on that here and here. The comments section […]

Given all the right wingers descending on this site to support their hero Joe Clark, I thought I’d engage in an activity they will no doubt enjoy – David Herle bashing! By now, I’m sure everyone has read this article. Apparently, Herle has his sights set on a majority government and while he doesn’t have […]

Liberals may be great at stacking nomination meetings, but when it comes to the internet, we’re sadly lacking. Big campaigns from the Shotgun and Small Dead Animals have pushed Joe Clark ahead of Trudeau. Then again, considering Joe Clark endorsed Martin last election, maybe it’s Liberals voting for Joe Who? The vote doesn’t close until […]

If you’ve followed a link here, the final contest results can be found at http://calgarygrit.blogspot.com/2005/09/and-winner-is.html As the summer winds down, and everyone gears up for the opening of Parliament, I thought it might be fun to take a look at Canadian history and some of the great, and not so great, Prime Ministers from our […]

The Conservatives have launched “phase 2” of their summer campaign with four new TV ads. I must say, as with most things Harper does, the intent is really good: They’re talking policy and highlighting the supporting cast of MPs. Here’s my synopsis of each ad, with the mandatory sarcastic jabs thrown in: Health Care for […]

SES is out with some new polling numbers. I don’t really put a lot of stock in either of these polls because they’re the type of questions that are really difficult to draw any conclusions from. But they’re fun nevertheless, so I figured I’d post them here. If there were one thing that you could […]

The following has most of the raw numbers I used for my projections. If you’d like any more information on how I compiled these projections, just send me an e-mail. BC new sales:Kennedy 4000Rae 3000Dion 1500Volpe 1000Iggy 750Dryden 200Brison 200Fry 50MHF 40Bennett 30 existing:Kennedy: 2.5Ignatieff: 2.5Rae: 2.5Dion: 2.5 The existing support is out of ten […]