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…
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…
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…
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…
Check out the mass-media quality infographic of the blog-media quality research that Mike Brock has done: Brock on the Attack Cross-posted to Blogging Tories
One more time… David Pugliese yesterday in the Ottawa Citizen reported: “During the June election campaign, the Conservatives proposed acquiring a fleet of such long-range transport planes, prompting the Defence…
Palestinians are ‘perplexed’ at Richard Gere’s public service announcement broadcast on palestinian TV. “Get out and Vote”, he implores. “I don’t even know who the candidates are other than Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas)…
A scathing column on Paul Martin’s Liberals was published today in the National Post. The heart of the diatribe: “To those countries and their citizens who are so much the subject of our prayers and our concern, we say…
Please consider the following quotations: “[Canadians have] a clear choice between aircraft carriers or health care” — Paul Martin during the 2004 federal election campaign on the difference between the Liberals and the…
Here’s an interesting editorial speculating on the impact of extending the mandate of CSIS to include “foreign intelligence”. Yes, we have a spy agency yet it only spies within our own borders (think RCMP). In fact, the…
