Today, Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion handed Martha Hall Findlay the safe Liberal riding of Willowdale to replace retiring MP Jim Peterson. As I said in December, even though I disagree with her ideas, I was quite impressed with Findlay as a…
…a woman named Deb Grey became the first elected Reform party MP. On March 13th, 1989 Grey was elected by the constituents of the federal riding of Beaver River in Northern Alberta. Affectionately called the “Iron Snowbird” by constituents and…
The other day, I got an email from Dr. Tom Flanagan, political science professor and close adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Dr. Flanagan writes: This afternoon (March 6, 2007) I got a call from CBC TV news reporter Krista Erickson. She said…
The following is a Public Service Announcement! Are you a student? Do you have an interest in working in political Ottawa? Do have an interest in carrying the Conservative message to your fellow Canadians? You should apply for the Conservative Party…
I have it on good authority that the Prime Minister will be appearing on the season finale of CTV’s Corner Gas. The episode will air on March 12th. This should give the PM some good publicity as the show has been averaging about 1.6 million viewers…
On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to interview Jack Layton, the leader of the New Democratic Party. Layton and I chat about a variety of topics including his tenure as leader, the future evolution of the NDP on the political spectrum, Canada’s Kyoto…
The House of Commons is set to vote today on the extension of two provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act. The ATA was brought in under the Liberals after 9/11 and two specific provisions of the act are being challenged today in the House of Commons by…
I’m hearing a rumour that the Liberals are going to walk out of Question Period today in protest of Stephen Harper’s reading of that Vancouver Sun article yesterday which cast a shadow on the reputation of Liberal MP Navdeep Bains. If the House…
There’s a lesson here: never throw out the B-roll! As some of you may know, I, along with Tasha Kheiriddin and Greg Staples armed ourselves with video cameras and stalked the halls of the Liberal Party leadership convention in December looking for…
Last week, I was watching Canada AM and would have spit out my coffee if I had been drinking some at the time. I had just seen the program’s Seamus O’Regan interview Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion about climate change, the oil sands, the terror…
