Blogging is light til Sunday afternoon, as I am paying a long-delayed visit to my parent’s. Pardon this blogentry being a bit light on political talk as well.
Some points in brief.
a) The books on some of the extended family line and all the old photos from relatives my mom retreived from my grandfather are a [...]

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Adding to the pressure that the Conservatives now find themselves in over the amended Bill C-30 petard they hoisted themselves on in not expecting the opposition to unite and come up with an amended bill before their own regulations came out, environmental groups have come out and publicly supported the amended Bill C-30 (now [...]

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Well.. another poll - this one by Ipsos-Reid - shows that the Conservatives have fallen back below the magic 40% level that this poll had them at last week. In fact, the numbers are almost virtually identical to the Decima results released a couple of days ago.
The Conservatives, after surging to the “magic” majority number [...]

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People smarter then I have described Harper as being one of the most partisan Prime Ministers in recent memory.
Paul Wells account here of the fact that none of the opposition leaders or a Senator whose father fought at Vimy Ridge were invited by the PM to attend the unveiling a new memorial at [...]

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I wondered how the Conservatives would possibly try and justify declaring the newly revised Bill C-30 as a motion of non-confidence. Well, I think we have a hint of it tonight… the Conservatives may claim this is now is a money bill.. because, well…its supposedly a tax on industry.. and therefore money is involved.. very [...]

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The environmental ball is back in Stephen Harper’s court:
Bill C-30, Canada’s clean air act, introduced by the governing Conservatives in October, is due to be submitted to the House of Commons Friday…Opposition members, who form a majority on the committee, have completely revamped the bill so that it barely resembles its original form. It now [...]

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I don’t often see an article in the Sports section that is even usually remotely related to the politics spectrum, but there was one today by Dave Perkins of the Toronto Star arguing that in lieu of all that is happening with the scandal at the Ontario Lotto Gaming Corporation, now would be a great [...]

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A Senate report released today says the government is wasting time and money trying to “defend” the Arctic:
“Disagreements over Canada’s sovereignty in these (Arctic) waters are not going to be settled through the use of gunboats,’ says the 124-page report. “They will be settled through the use of diplomacy or in the courts. Canada’s Navy [...]

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Hat-tip to Far and Wide for pointing out the new Decima poll that was released today:
Conclusion? If the Tories had an initial bounce as the first couple of polls from polling companies showed, it disappeared at the end of the week if this poll is accurate:
The Decima survey, provided to The Canadian Press, puts the [...]

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I’ve a link to Antonia Zerbisias in my blogroll - the Toronto Star’s media columnist. The blog has been inactive since Christmas 2006, and I presumed it was because Zerb had experienced blog burnout from some of her inane commentators at her blog.
It turns out however, that she didnt pull the plug on it at [...]

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