Canada

So who did the dirty on Megan Leslie? Keith Torrie claims it wasn’t him but, beyond that, he ain’t talking. And he certainly isn’t answering questions. On Monday, someone identifying herself as Jess MacDonald and claiming to be a disgruntled New Democrat created a Facebook group called “We Made the WRONG Choice: the RADICAL Megan […]

Question number one. “Stephen Harper has been prime minister for almost three years. Under his strong and focused leadership, do you think Canada is on the right track?” “Yes.” “No.” Uh … Question number two. “Stephane Dion has been leader of the Liberal party since December 2006. Some people say Mr. Dion is a weak […]

Did you know that the first week of Stephane Dion’s federal election campaign went so “poorly… several senior Liberals have expressed serious concern that (it) could be the sign of an electoral disaster to come?” You’d certainly know that if you’d read the front page of Monday morning’s Globe and Mail. Or its strange-bedfellow matching […]

Irvine Carvery concedes his difficulties with the NDP’s provincial campaign office were likely the result of a simple “miscommunication,” but he says that misunderstanding “puts the screws to me.” Carvery is one of three hopefuls vying to be the party’s candidate in the riding of Halifax in the October 14 federal election. Carvery says his […]

I don’t plan to vote Green—or at least I didn’t until Stephen Harper and Jack Layton became kissing cousins in an unseemly and unworthy attempt to keep Green Party leader Elizabeth May from taking part in the national leaders’ debate next month. The Green Party is a legitimate national political party. In the last federal […]

There’s something comfortably old shoe about attending an NDP gathering in Halifax. You’re almost certain to run into someone you know. The neighbour down the street you saw mowing his lawn in the rain last week, the young couple with the toddler who just bought the fixer-upper on the next block, the sales clerk from […]

There’s now a Facebook group—of course—for anyone who wants to vent their anger at the decision by Canada’s national broadcasting consortium/cabal to bow to the fears of the Tories, NDP and Bloc, and exclude Green Party Leader Elizabeth May from the federal political leaders’ debate. The group is for “Canadians of any and all political […]

“Uh…Uh….Mmmm-mmm… (Silence)… Uh… Um…” Rob Batherson’s monosyllabic musing had gone on for at least 15 seconds before I thought to look at my watch, and lasted another 33 before he finally didn’t answer my question. It wasn’t a complicated question, and it was one for which Batherson obviously knew the correct answer. I just wanted […]

The search for Alexa McDonough’s successor is off to a rocky start. And the party has yet to nominate its candidate. But it isn’t clear what—if any—effect a messy misunderstanding between the Nova Scotia federal NDP campaign office and wannabe-standard bearer Irvine Carvery over membership fees might have on the upcoming campaign and/or —and perhaps […]