Just in from the Tory press office: OTTAWA – Statement by Owen Lippert: "I was overzealous in copying segments of another world leader’s speech...   more »

The Green Party is organizing debate parties in pubs and restaurants across the country for the English language leaders' debate on Thursday night. Here's the list so far ..   more »

You can set your watch to it. With two weeks left in campaigning, the abortion issue has once against surfaced on the Conservative campaign. The issue came up at the same time in 2006 and in 2004. This morning at a press conference in Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was ...   more »

"...there are [those] who cut their political teeth with Harper who say he's abandoned "principled conservatism", that his government has let spending run out of control and broke his word on fixed election dates - just like the Liberal governments before him.... These are the philosophical small-c conservatives who wanted a government in Ottawa that would address judicial activism, turn the Senate upside down, introduce free-market principles for health care delivery, but most of all, lower income taxes by slashing government spending.

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I had a piece in a lot of papers today that reported on the latest results of our Ipsos Reid poll. Ipsos has the Conservatives at 40 per cent and has the Liberals at 23 per cent. (My friend Tonda M. reports on a poll today her paper commissioned that ...   more »

no matter how much global-warming activists feel as if they have won all the debates in think-tank meetings, editorial pages, and faculty lounges, it is going to be a tough battle to convince the voting public to make huge sacrifices based on the evidence that we have now.... Manzi believes a carbon tax, even if it were to be implemented globally, would be ineffective in actually solving the problem (he would find well-reasoned opposition to this position from many academics) but this paragraph, though written with John McCain and the Republican Party in mind, could have been written for Stephen Harper's Conservatives: .   more »

Calgary Grit has a nice little roundup of Election 2008 as seen through the eyes of the country's editorial page cartoonists.

"Candidates running in the federal election are being challenged to take the 'I Believe in Open' pledge. The pledge, created by the non-partisan VisibleGovernment.ca, challenges candidates to commit to five key improvements in government transparency, including making campaign promises measurable, publishing their MP schedule on the internet, allowing public access to government scientific and survey data, and making it easier for Canadians to obtain government information....   more »

The crime issue is back in the news after Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced plans yesterday to change the Young Offenders Act. Among other things, the changes would have the effect of being able to lock up a 14-year-old for life.

Harper has another crime-themed announcement this morning during a ...   more »

Bad news for the Harper campaign as we woke up in Trois Rivieres, Que. this morning. No, it was nothing to do with Gerry Ritz.

out in this morning's edition of Le Journal de Montreal says Quebceers believe Jack Layton is sexier than Stephen Harper.When asked which of the ...   more »