... Harper will also conclude that, by and large, Ritz has been a relatively competent agriculture minister. Harper will note that voters in Ritz's Saskatchewan riding handily returned him to the House. And Harper will be damned if some bureaucrat can get the idea that a minister can be felled if they reveal confidential information. And if he sacks Ritz or demotes him, it will look like he gave in to demands from the likes of Liberal agriculture critic Wayne Easter, who Conservatives have a particular dislike for ...   more »

The Canadian Wireless Telecom Association announced this evening that former New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord will become the association's new chief executive. Lord's last major role (left) was national co-chair of the Conservative campaign. That campaign promised, among other things: "A re-elected Conservative government led by Stephen ...   more »

Wow. Liberals +1. BQ -1. Judicial recount turns the results around in Brossard-La Prairie.

Elections Canada Announces Results of Judicial Recount
in the Electoral District of Brossard–La Prairie

OTTAWA, Friday, October 24, 2008 – The Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, Marc Mayrand, announced today that Alexandra Mendes has been ...   more »

Yesterday, the parliamentary/prime ministerial calendar was starting to come into focus. It's still a bit blurry but, with the news today that the Prime Minister's Peru trip to attend the annual APEC summit will have him out of the country from Nov. 21 (a Friday) to Nov. 24 (a Monday), ...   more »

... and they all are men -- white men -- from famed New York investment bank Goldman Sachs who, for no clear reason, seem to end up playing key roles in central banks and finance departments around the world, a phenomenon which gets a fresh look from Julie Cresswell and ...   more »

Based on the preliminary data up at Elections Canada's Web site this morning: 10 MPs with the highest vote totals and highest vote totals for the Libs, BQ, NDP and Greens.    more »

Josée Verner is the Conservative Heritage Minister. She is her party's candidate in the Quebec City riding of Louis St. Laurent. But Verner lives in the riding of Portneuf-Jacques Cartier, the only riding in the country where there is no Conservative candidate and that is where, according to the BQ, ...   more »

I can't remember where I first heard this but it made enough sense to me that I used it in a speech I gave when I was 15-years-old:

"Bad governments are elected by good citizens who don't vote."

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In the middle of winter in 2006, 14.9 million Canadians braved the cold to vote - a voter turnout of 64.7 per cent.

Will that many Canadians put on a raincoat tomorrow to cast their ballot?   more »

Some quick observations on B.C. and the Arctic ridings: BRITISH COLUMBIA BURNABY-DOUGLAS BURNABY-NEW WESTMINSTER Early in the campaign, Conservatives were boasting about knocking out NDP incumbents Peter Siksay in DOUGLAS and Peter Julian in NEW WESTMINSTER which, frankly, surprised me. I don't think the Tories are boasting any more. There ...   more »