21 June 2010
20 years since Calgary Liberal Leadership Convention shows how unpredictable politics can be
20 years ago this week, Jean Chrétien was elected Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in Calgary. That same week, the Meech Lake Accord died as last minute scrambling for provincial consensus failed to get completed before the ratification deadline.
Election fever around Parliament Hill is beginning to heat up and it is becoming increasingly likely that at some point over the next 3-4 months a federal election will be called. Parliament Hill, on the eve of the summer recess, is rife with this fever as speculation of elections, mergers, and coalitions is now the [...]
With the news this morning that an Angus Reid poll found that a Liberal-NDP coalition government headed by Jack Layton would defeat the Tories by 43 – 37 per cent, I got to thinking about what a Layton prime ministership would look like. A cursory stroll through their election platform shows that an NDP-led government will do [...]
The leaves have fallen, the snow has blown, the flowers have blossomed and the heat waves are back. What better time to take a look back at the year-that-was at Queen’s Park as the legislature prepares to recess for yet another summer. Here are but a few points of reflection – in numbers – from [...]
A few months back I wrote a post about what MPs are listening to on their iPods. Never could I have predicted that our very own Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, would be rocking out at 24 Sussex to “This is How You Remind Me”, however it turns out that this is exactly what’s going on. [...]
Here’s the problem for the Liberal Party of Canada: “The economy expanded at the fastest pace in three years in January, led by manufacturing, wholesaling and construction. That followed fourth-quarter growth of 5 percent that exceeded the Bank of Canada’s 3.3 percent estimate”, according to current media reports. Nobody saw this one coming, not even [...]
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