Foreign Affairs and Defence
Pettigrew shakes finger at Iran
The front page of the Globe and Mail today outlined the injuries of Zahra Kazemi, the Canadian photojournalist who suspiciously died while in Iranian custody.…
March 2005
11 posts from March 2005.
Canadian Policy
Senate appointments and the erosion of Canada’s representative democracy
When the Fathers of Confederation assembled to hash out a representative system, most would agree that they were quite aware of the idea of checks and balances…
Conservative Party of Canada
Convention wrap-up
The last day of the convention, Saturday was the most interesting day (at least business wise) of this “most successful gathering of conservatives in 20…
Stephen Harper
Conservative Dance Party
After the vote on the National Council and on Stephen Harper’s leadership had concluded, a leader’s cocktail party reception was held on the 7th floor of the…
Stephen Harper
Stephen Harper’s speech
Brian Mulroney introduced Harper via video (he’s recovering from lung surgery). Harper’s speech was very well written and kudos are in order for his…
Conservative Party of Canada
Solberg, Taylor and other blogging Tories!
Slept in. (See previous post about hospitality suites before and… hey, I’m an observer and I don’t need to attend delegate votes at 8am). Lunch time: cab it…
Conservative Party of Canada
Live blogging from the convention (sort of)
I arrived in Montreal yesterday for the convention registration and immediately bumped into a few people I knew from the leadership race and people with whom I…
Digital Politics
The Revolution will not be televised, it will be blogged
Why are there so many conservative writers in the blogosphere? I’ve been asked this a couple of times over the time that I have been blogging. Are we better…
Other
Family Circus: still not funny
Most everyone is familiar with Bil Keane’s daily comic which can be found in most widely published newspapers in North America. Family Circus has been around…