At the time of this writing, CNN and the AP are reporting on a US soldier apparently captured in Iraq by terrorists. However, CNN military analysts note some inconsistancies in the soldier’s appearance: “A flak jacket the man is wearing in the…

The answer is obvious Its citizens. Happy 1st annual Iraqi National Day.

As I prepared this post, a rerun of the CBC’s fifth estate documentary was lamenting the arrival of that “loud”, “raucous” cable news channel that has debuted on Canadian digital cable. I am, of course, talking about Fox News. Bob McKeown has an…

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Please consider the following seven questions. Do gays have their own “culture”? Does a gay Canadian have the same rights as an Asian-Canadian, as a black Canadian, white Canadian, Jewish, Hindu or Christian Canadian? Is Canada a multicultural…

There’s an entertaining blog battle going on between the former PMO Chief of Staff for Chrétien, the former PMO Chief of Staff for Mulroney and Paul Wells. Of course, it’s all public, they’re all bloggers and… listen up, they want us to pay…

This week I had the pleasure of attending a lecture by the Rt. Hon. Joe Clark, the 16th Prime Minister of Canada, at Queen’s University. Joe Clark is currently a visiting professor at American University and he stopped by the policy studies building…

Today marks the one year anniversary of this blog. I just realized that today is the day so I wanted to mark it before it passed. I’ll be updating this post later with some highlights of the past year, including links to some of my favourite posts.

Inspired by the last two posts, I decided to look at all of the raw data from 2003. I downloaded the total contributions per party into spreadsheet form, sorted the data by contributor type, summed each contributor type and then graphed each…

Looks like I jumped the gun a little on displaying Mike Brock’s infographic as the truth, but in his defence, it was a result more of poor methodology than deceit. Mike took the numbers from 2003 and 2004 and put them together. The Conservative…