I’m cool with not blogging on Canadian politics on this important day. Rule of law and all that. Hey, speaking of the rule of law, if you haven’t read the transcript of Al Gore’s recent speech on American constitutional issues, you really should. I shook my head a bit last Friday as the Beltway Boys […] More »
From CBC.ca: Blogging on election day is going to be a tricky thing. In this election, unlike the last one, Section 329 of the Canada Elections Act will be in effect, meaning it will be effectively against the law to blog about election results until 10:00 ET, since blogging is considered transmitting “to the public.” […] More »
The day that George W. Bush was re-elected, my husband came home from work with a copy of Love, Actually so I would watch that and pretend it was real instead of watching the news and losing my mind. Now that I feel like we’re a few days away from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, all […] More »
In the not-exactly-grand tradition of seat projection sites such as the UBC Election Stock Market and DemocraticSpace.com, I suggest we carry out some seat projections of our own. Post yours by noon on Monday, and the winner gets … well, nothing aside from a Conservative minority, probably. Use CBC’s reflection on the 2004 results as […] More »
Heard it on CBC Radio this morning, and it’s also in the Globe.: The Tory Leader began the long winter election campaign by saying he would ask Parliament if it wanted to reopen the controversial issue of same-sex marriage. He said he would respect existing homosexual unions if the House of Commons decided to restore […] More »
Sitting in the salon this evening (hair that is, not my charming Edmonton pied a terre) and between US Weekly and an out of date People magazine (Angelina to adopt again, come.ON.) is the January 23 edition of Macleans…featuring the National column by our own Andrew Potter. I could barely contain my excitement and am […] More »
Oooh — Buzz Hargrove endorses permanent Liberal rule. Oooh — he calls on Quebecers to vote for the Bloc. Oooh — he says lots of other stupid things. Oooh — watch the mainstream media get all woozy. Give me a break. Buzz Hargrove said all of this, and many other stupid things, on NATIONAL FREAKING […] More »
Last night I got home from an all-candidates meeting to find this pamphlet in my door. NDP colours on the outside. Desperate – sadly desperate – Liberal plea on the inside. Please vote NDP and put these pathetic, say-anything-for-power folks out of their misery. More »
As Andrew Potter likes to remind us, the intellectual elite, especially those with international credentials (oh, the mother country has noticed us again!), can’t quite understand why we haven’t just turned Canada over to Michael Ignatieff now that he thinks he might like to run it. I live in that backwater in western Toronto, and […] More »
I caught The National on CBC last night, which included a special “Your Turn” segment with Jack Layton. CBC viewers were invited to pose questions to the NDP leader in front of a live studio audience in Halifax, with Peter Mansbridge moderating. It was a rare chance for Layton to get a full hour of […] More »