Freddie P (Free subscription) | yesterday
Stephane Dion must be one proud fella today. His wife, who obviously wears the pants in the house lost her mind on Friday and posted a facebook attack on Michael Ignatieff. Granted, Ignatieff is a class "A" stooge in his own right, but Dion's wife, who goes by the name Janine Krieber wrote a scathing piece on Ignatieff's underhanded means of grabbing control of the party, she criticized...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Could you imagine Churchill saying the Nazis should have some cabinet members'?? Britain's foreign secretary has suggested that senior Taliban figures be given positions in the Afghan government to bring an end to the violence in the country. At a meeting of Nato's parliamentary assembly in Edinburgh, Scotland on Tuesday, David Miliband said that history suggested many Taliban members could be persuaded...
Dr Roy's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Kelly McParland thinks so. I'm not completely sure, but things look pretty bad for iffy. The media now calls him iffy. The problem is that the grits think that it is just a leadership problem. Thankfully for us, they won't believe it is a much deeper problem. That Ignatieff should be verging on such status is surprising, considering his background and evident talent. Ten months ago it appeared he would...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Michael Ignatieff gets advice from Frank McKenna and Jack Layton has a new spring in his step
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The good news for Michael Ignatieff in a new Nanos Research poll is that he is still more popular than was his predecessor, Stéphane Dion, after he lost the last general election just over a year ago. The bad news is that another month like the one just passed and the Liberal leader will be in Dion territory — that is, where only one in 10 Canadians think you would make the best Prime...
Section 15 (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
From Jane Taber's third point : EKOS’s Frank Graves has "...also looked at the political horserace, finding that the Liberals are “stuck in amber” along with the Conservatives. For the second week, the numbers show that we are exactly where we were on election day 2008 - 36.6 per cent for the Conservatives, 26.6 per cent for the Liberals, 16.8 per cent for the NDP, 11.2 per cent...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
There's no positive spin to put on Monday's byelections for the Liberals, which may be a good thing, because trying to spin byelections too much can make you look rather, well, like Brian Topp : "The Liberal vote in Montreal dropped by about 30 per cent (the Michael Ignatieff-led Liberals got slightly more than 14 per cent in that riding, compared to the Stéphane Dion-led Liberals, who...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
OTTAWA -- Life can sometimes look pretty hopeless for political leaders. The morning after coming third in four by-elections, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff could seek solace in the example of Abraham Lincoln, who failed in business twice before the age of 35, had a nervous breakdown at 36 and suffered eight election defeats before becoming president at the age of 60. Then again, even Lincoln never...
CalgaryGrit (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
There's no positive spin to put on yesterday's by elections for the Liberals, which may be a good thing, because trying to spin by elections too much can make you look rather, well, like Brian Topp : The Liberal vote in Montreal dropped by about 30 per cent (the Michael Ignatieff-led Liberals got slightly more than 14 per cent in that riding, compared to the Stéphane Dion-led Liberals, who got...
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A pair of young journalists led Jack Layton’s scrum yesterday with questions about heckling in the House. They would seem to have followed up with a couple other MPs, similar exchanges showing up in the scrum transcripts. The last question posed to Jim Flaherty surely demonstrates a degree of chutzpah that bodes well for the [...]
Devin Johnston (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
I get press releases from the Liberals, New Democrats, Conservatives, and Greens delivered to me daily via RSS . As you might imagine, most press releases from most of the parties are asinine most of the time. The point of a press release is to try to frame an issue in a way that is favourable for your party and unfavourable for other parties. Fair enough, I get that. But today's press release from...
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I suppose the legislature's intention is clear. And with that guns become anonymous in Canada -- well, fair is fair, gun advocates organised, got the votes and won. That's the way it's supposed to work so good for them. I disagree but recognise and respect the decision. I do hope this doesn't presage removing the limits on handguns in Canada. Vote to kill gun registry passes Private member's bill now...
Cowboys for Social Responsibility (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
This is a 50 calibre sniper rifle. In Canada, this rifle can be sold to anybody with a firearms license. A 50 caliber rifle will penetrate concrete and is accurate at well over a mile. It is not a hunting rifle. There are few ranges secure enough to even fire a 50 cal rifle. It isn't just sporting rifles and shotguns that fall under Bill C-391's spell. If the Bill passes, large caliber sniper rifles...
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Well, this seems to be it. A peculiar "law and order" agenda. Tonda MacCharles Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA – Opponents of a long-gun registry in Canada are about to put a bullet in it. Both sides of the gun-control debate believe the Conservatives now have enough Commons votes to give parliamentary approval in principle to a private member's bill to kill the registry for rifles and shotguns....
They Call Me "Mr. Sinister" (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Tonda MacCharles reports today in the Star : After a heavy lobbying effort, including a Tory-backed radio ad campaign targeting vulnerable opposition ridings, the bill's sponsor, MP Candice Hoeppner (Portage-Lisgar), says she is confident at least eight NDP and Liberal MPs will vote to get rid of the law that requires rifles and shotguns to be registered. That's because Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff...
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