Canadian Media
Michael Ignatieff is a control freak!
…and other opinions we won’t hear from the Ottawa Parliamentary Press Gallery anytime soon. Jane Taber: Ian Davey is Michael Ignatieff’s principal secretary…
January 2009
12 posts from January 2009.
Michael Ignatieff
Ignatieff puts Conservatives “on probation”
Tories put on probation; coalition declared dead I can just picture Michael Ignatieff in his days on the faculty at Harvard.
Conservative Party of Canada
So, we’re conservatives and we didn’t like the budget. What are we going to do about it?
“Well, what the hell else do you expect us to do with a gun to our head” remarked one ministerial staffer at Hy’s last night when I delivered the verdict of…
CBC
Krista Erickson returns to the National tonight
My sources inside the CBC tell me that Krista Erickson returns to televised reporting in front of a national audience tonight on The National. She’s said to be…
Economy and Budget
Name the budget!
The annual federal budget in previous years has had bland, generic corp- gov-speak titles applied to their card stock-bound covers. In 2006, scoring another…
US Politics
The inauguration of the 44th President of the United States
I’ve been back in Ottawa for about 36 hours after making the trip to Washington DC to observe the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the…
Foreign Affairs and Defence
Bill Ayers denied entry into Canada. So why the shock?
Today, American radical William Ayers was denied entry to Canada. Here’s the an excerpt from the article on the story in the Globe and Mail: William Ayers, a…
Digital Politics
Five years of StephenTaylor.ca
It was five years ago today that I started this blog. I started writing on this site as a tool to compliment my nomination campaign in Kingston prior to the…
Economy and Budget
New worldclass laboratory to be included in the federal budget?
In 2008, I had the opportunity to tour the level 4 laboratory in Winnipeg Manitoba with my boss Preston Manning. In my day job, I am the science policy and…