Really? You Are?
April 27, 2011 | 1 Comment
With the NDP polling so well, and the Liberals polling so poorly, Michael Ignatieff was asked about the prospect of coming in third behind Jack Layton and Stephen Harper. “Have I given the thought to, you know, if my aunt had a lower voice, would she be my uncle?” Ignatieff said. “I’m fighting to win [...]
Tuesday Morning Links
April 26, 2011 | No Comments
Here’s some early morning reading for this sunny/rainy/whatever day: Andrew Potter argues that the Green Party have accomplished nothing and abandoned environmentalism for the sake of political narcissism. Stephen Taylor looks ahead to the final week of the campaign. Hugh MacIntyre throws some cold water on those reveling in the NDP surge. David Akin chronicles [...]
Week in Review
April 25, 2011 | No Comments
Heading into the last week of the election campaign, let’s look at the past week’s top posts: Jonathan: Babies Before Bureaucrats! Richard: Does Michael Ignatieff Think He’s Better than Jean Chretien? Nick: When logic hits a brick Wall Jonathan: A New NDP “Scandal”
Coalition! Coalition! All I hear is Coalition!
April 25, 2011 | 2 Comments
If there has been one constant in cacophony that has been our latest federal election, it has been the theme of coalitions. Stephen Harper made efforts early on to frame the ballot question as a choice between a strong, stable Conservative majority and a reckless, unstable Opposition coalition. The drum beat of that frame has [...]
A Speck of White In a Blob of Orange In a Sea of Blue
April 25, 2011 | No Comments
My second piece for iPolitics is up and takes a a look at the indepedent campaign of Canadian Against Proroguing Parliament Facebook group founder Christopher White. Across the country, Canadians are weighing the pros and cons of the federal parties vying for their votes. Do the Conservatives deserve the chance to govern with a majority? [...]
Spoil Your Ballot Contest – Final Week
April 25, 2011 | 7 Comments
There’s one week left in the Spoil Your Ballot contest. As a re-cap, I’m going to spoil my ballot on election day, and I want to do it in the funnest way… or most creative way… or, well, just the most awesome way. The person with the best suggestion gets to do a guest post [...]
Does Michael Ignatieff Think He’s Better than Jean Chretien?
April 24, 2011 | 4 Comments
All week, I’ve been looking forward to today for two reasons. First and above all, today is Easter Sunday. It is the day that makes me a Christian. Our belief in the resurrection is largely what distinguishes Christianity from other faith traditions. And so, on this day, I celebrate and rejoice. (And I get to [...]
Easter Love
April 24, 2011 | No Comments
It’s Easter, and National Post has offered up a bit of a theological controversy among some leaders of the Christian church in America: do you need the Saviour in order to be saved? Author, theologian and mega-church pastor Rob Bell has suggested you don’t: He is asking tough questions about salvation, upending traditional takes on [...]
A New NDP “Scandal”
April 23, 2011 | No Comments
Have you heard the one about Passover and Japanese cars? Well, if you pick up today’s Ottawa Sun it’ll be screaming at you from the front page: The story began Thursday when Saskatchewan resident Michael Kempton-Jones posted a description of what Passover means on his Facebook page. The last thing he expected to see Friday was [...]
Non-Election Non-Political Saturday Morning Links
April 23, 2011 | 1 Comment
Life is more than politics, scandal, polls and elections. Here’s some stuff to read that is far more interesting than an NDP surge or dissecting Peter Mansbridge’s body language: Sebastien Junger writes about Tim Hetherington, one of the photo journalists recently killed in Libya. The Citizen‘s Gary Dimrock tells the story of Mike Danton, the [...]