One of the favourite narratives of the Ottawa media is that the Prime Minister doesn’t talk to them on enough occasions. This, of course lazily and unfairly extends to “doesn’t talk to reporters”. However, while some in…
Ron McKinnon is a former Liberal candidate and is the current Liberal President of the Port Moody–Westwood–Port Coquitlam Federal Liberal Association. He wrote this on his blog yesterday: This week the Harper government…
My sources are telling me that this Hill Times story about Bruce Carson being Prime Minister Harper’s next Chief of Staff just isn’t true. Bruce Carson wasn’t even in Ottawa last weekend. The Hill Times reported today…
The trendy thing to do these days for trendy companies that sell trendy products is to show their trendy customers that these companies care about more than just their bottom line, they also care about how showing that…
Numbers leaked to your Ford-friendly neighbourhood blogger: Ford – 32% Smitherman – 22% Thomson – 10% Pantalone – 9% Rossi – 7% Undecided – 22% When undecideds are dropped out of the sample, Ford – 41% Smitherman – 28%…
The Liberal Party of Canada put out a baffling press release today accusing Conservatives of meddling with the staffing decisions of the RMCP, an arms-length agency of the government of Canada. The Liberals are upset…
One of the stories raging in the Canadian blogosphere today is the Toronto Star’s Wikipedia edit of Rob Ford’s Wikipedia page linking readers to a parody site of the candidate for mayor of Toronto. I decided to check up…
Forget Tim’s, Dr. Ignatieff. Get a stack of membership forms, camp out at Starbucks and just wait… MANHATTAN — An English professor claims she was ejected from an Upper West Side Starbucks by cops for refusing to order…
A terribly sad day in Ottawa. Michael Ignatieff’s Director of Communications died this morning in a motorcycle accident. Here are the statements from the party leaders. I met Laguë once. There was a kindness and quiet…
Today Paul Wells wrote a piece in which he supported the thesis of a post I wrote back on July 22. However, he thought he noted a bit of an inconsistency between my post and later tweets, I’ve been mystified by Stephen…
