The final installment of my interview with the finance critic for the Conservative Party of Canada can be listened to by downloading/streaming the file below. Monte Solberg answers questions on the fiscal imbalance, healthcare, equalization, limited…

Former Liberal MP Pat O’Brien says that he’ll vote against the budget bills with another unnamed Liberal MP unless Paul Martin retreats from fast-tracking of bill C-38 (SSM) through the House before the summer recess. So, let’s make some predictions…

Here’s part two of my interview that I conducted with Monte Solberg last week. In this section Monte answers questions on MSM bias, rising stars in the Conservative Party, what he would do as Minister of Finance, and more! Listen to part 2 of 3 of…

During my Ottawa trip last week, I had the opportunity to interview the finance critic of the Conservative Party of Canada, and fellow Blogging Tory Monte Solberg. Monte was gracious enough to answer questions concerning the Blogging Tories, the…

I just got back from Ottawa a couple of hours ago and I must say that it was quite an enjoyable and successful trip. I had a meeting booked with Monte Solberg at 9am which meant that I was up earlier than a grad student ought to be at 6am to make…

I’m off to Ottawa tomorrow to visit Parliament Hill and some people there. It’s also been a while since I’ve watched Question Period in person, so I think I’ll go watch the fireworks. I’m also going to do podcast interviews of MPs Monte Solberg and…

A reporter from CTV News called to ask questions about the Blogosphere and its interpretation of the Grewal affair. The conversation went on for about half an hour and covered topics as diverse as Grewal at the airport to Grewal the carpet salesman…

You know that you live in a tax-mad nation when… VICTORIA (PEI) – The owners of a restaurant and pub in Victoria by the Sea have been asked to pay the province $24,000 in anticipated sales tax before serving a single meal or pouring a pint. It has…

Natalee Holloway is an 18-year-old teenager from Alabama who went missing on May 30th in Aruba. I hope that she is found safe and unharmed. The cable news industry (CNN, FOX, MSNBC) have all hopped on the story and I’m hopeful that this media…

While we’re on the subject of political website design, I’d like to share with everyone something that I’ve been searching for on Google for a long time. I finally found it today when I was doing research for the previous post. It is, in my opinion,…