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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In anticipation for the defeat of the government back in May, both the Conservative Party of Canada and the NDP redesigned their respective websites into campaign websites. Both remain largely unchanged. Here, I offer…
In a minority parliament such as this, the independents have all of the power. In a move likely seen as the Liberal attempt to fast-track bill C-38 through the Commons before the summer, Liberal MP Pat O’Brien quit his…
Nothing has been confirmed yet, but I speculate that Gilles Duceppe will leave federal politics to lead the Parti Quebecois after the surprise resignation of PQ leader Bernard Landry. The resignation of Landry changes…
