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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Lorne Gunter: In the wake of the Adscam scandal, it was revealed that of all judges appointed by the Liberals — not advisory panel members, but judges themselves –nearly two-thirds had personal ties to the governing…
Stephen Harper’s famous five priorities during the previous election were packaged as such because Paul Martin seemed to name every issue as “his #1 one priority”. In fact, if I remember correctly, the Conservatives…
