Digital Politics
New Political Blogging Tool: MP Blog Tracker
I’ve been working on a new tool that ranks Canadian MPs by the buzz that they’ve generated in the blogosphere. Technorati is a website that tracks over 16.2…
Jack Layton
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Foreign Affairs and Defence
Tube Terrorism: Canada Responds
Paul Martin puts it into the global context: “Our collective freedom has come under attack today by those who would use violence and murder to force extremism…
Conservative Party of Canada
Tories are getting down in the grit
The fundamentals of a controlled and focused attack are there. The meting of information in tantalizing media-packaged portions, day after day, the directing…
Parliament of Canada
Budget brinksmanship and summer scenarios
Canadians might have thought that the budget showdown was over when Chuck Cadman stood, chewing his gum, to vote to keep the government alive in the closest…
Conservative Party of Canada
Halton nomination
I decided to take an early weekend and continue working on my graduate thesis from the comfort of the parents’ home in Milton. The Halton CPC nomination was…
Jack Layton
Layton endorses more powers for the “Quebec nation”
Uh oh… Mustachioed leader of the NDP Jack Layton is trying to appeal to Quebeckers again, by selling out Canadian unity. Layton wants to redefine Canadian…
Jack Layton
Jack Layton, the corporate tax cut and confidence votes
Jack Layton is trying to negotiate the excision of the $4.6 billion corporate tax cut with Prime Minister Paul Martin. Cut those corporate taxes or lose NDP…
Canadian Policy
Senate appointments and the erosion of Canada’s representative democracy
When the Fathers of Confederation assembled to hash out a representative system, most would agree that they were quite aware of the idea of checks and balances…
Other
Long night in the lab
Tonight, I’m gearing up for one of those long nights in the lab of growin’ it, resolvin’ it and probin’ it. I am, of course, talking about my protein of study…