Posted in Politics on Nov 29th, 2008
I have only once been up-close, but not so personal, with Stephen Harper. It was at the foot of the stairs he uses in foyer of the House of Commons to go back up to his office after Question Period.
Unplanned, I found myself supplanted at the front of a media scrum standing two feet in [...]
Posted in Politics on Nov 27th, 2008
In my last post I wrote “Granted anything and everything can and does seem to happen in politics today as compared to 10-15 years ago. So who’s to say it’s completely impossible, if the economy continues to tank as my friend Garth says it will, the country won’t be ready to kiss the feet of [...]
Posted in Politics on Nov 23rd, 2008
First, I like Bob Rae. As mentioned in previous posts, Rae is Canada’s Bill Clinton, sans Monica. Any politician with enough sense-of-humour to go skinny-dipping on National TV with Rick Mercer has to be a lot more fun on a weekend of fishing and drinking beer, than say Michael Ignatieff.
Unfortunate for Bob Rae however, it [...]
Posted in Politics on Nov 11th, 2008
When you are leader of a Party without the equivalent of a Michael Ignatieff or a Bob Rae nipping at your heals, it’s easy to say what you like, when you like, and get away with it.
Yesterday the Canadian Press released Green Party ‘clearly unprepared’ for federal campaign: Elizabeth May, in which May blames the [...]