I did a light piece on my own preparations for the Republican National Convention with CBC radio a few days ago. The segment was featured on The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti this morning across the CBC Radio…
Today I received a tip from a couple of sources that describe discord among Liberal EDA board members in Ottawa West Nepean and their leader as the board is complaining that former Ottawa mayor Bob Chiarelli has asked…
govtweets.com and govtweets.ca I’ve been working on a couple of new website that use twitter. For those of you who aren’t familiar with twitter, it’s a new web service that simply asks “what are you doing?”. Think of it…
Stephen Harper on the economy today in the Northwest Territories: “Somebody said a recession is when people start losing their jobs, and when your neighbour loses his job. There are job losses, but overall employment is…
My occasional guest-blogging friend returns with a folksy and real assessment of today’s political scene. I’m glad to provide him this space since his job isn’t so permissive as to allow him to maintain a regular blog…
I’ve been enjoying this week’s coverage of the Democratic National Convention on CNN (the only network anchoring coverage from the floor). Whether you agree with Democrats or not, you must admit that they’re putting on…
I have a bit of an embarrassing confession to make. I subscribe to an unhealthy amount of polling information via email and RSS. Polling companies in Canada and the US send me daily information on a number of topics…
Stephane Dion won’t return Stephen Harper’s phone calls. The Prime Minister wants to get Dion on the line so the perception can be built that the PM is doing everything he can to make the fall session of Parliament…
Their website should reflect it. The by-elections are announced on their website in orange and red. These colours are, of course, the colours of the NDP and Liberal Party respectively. Some bureaucrats, journalists and…
