Quebec politics are always interesting, and sometimes detestable. The past few months have proven this again to be true. Quebec students are marching in the streets by the tens of thousands on a regular basis demanding that the government reverse…
News from last week included the opposition finding outrage in an apparent discrepancy of cost estimation of the Canadian mission in Libya by Defence Minister Peter MacKay. In an interview on CBC’s The House with Evan Solomon last October MacKay had…
According to the latest Nanos Survey, Party personality – Conservative Party: Let’s assume for a moment that each federal political party was a person. What one word would you use to describe the personality of each of the following political…
Just a small observation about recent NDP caucus appointments made by Thomas Mulcair and different reactions to them. What do you make of this? Liberal “interim” leader Bob Rae, I have one deputy leader who now does the work of the three named by…
There’s an election in Canada. And the classic divide is between two parties. One party has been endorsed by the National Post, the other by the Globe and Mail. One party accuses the other of racism, sexism and homophobia, while the other party…
The Alberta election is in its last week and it’s been an angry and desperate one for the PC Party of Alberta. At the outset of the campaign, polls showed that party and their chief rivals on the right — the Wildrose Party — neck and neck. And then…
APOLOGY on Behalf of Patrick Martin and the NDP to Mr. Matt Meier and RackNine Inc. On February 23, 2012, I appeared before the national media to speak in response to the important issue of “Robocalls” in the 2011 general election. At that time I…
Take a look at the PC Party of Alberta’s new ad featuring their leader Alison Redford. In the ad, there’s a featured shot of an oil production facility with the words “Leading the Nation”. Here’s a still from the video: Video producers take stock…
From the Vancouver Sun, Twelve of the world’s poorest countries – including Afghanistan, Pakistan and seven nations in Africa – are going to be hit as the Conservative government cuts its foreign aid budget by $377 mil-lion in the next three years.…
Campaign Research’s third weekly tracking poll shows that the Alberta election gap between Wildrose and the PC Party has tightened to 8 points. Some key findings of the poll: – Wildrose: 42.8%, PC: 34.4% – PC party gain comes at expense of Liberals…
