Errata, observations and working notes
from Parliament Hill reporter David Akin
View Article  McKenna is out - won't lead Liberals

My colleague Robert Fife is reporting that Frank McKenna will not run to lead the Liberal Party of Canada. McKenna had announced last week that he would resign his post as Canada’s Ambassador to the United States. McKenna had been appointed, of course, by the Paul Martin government and, with ...   more »

View Article  Top Ten Liberal Mistakes -- from a Conservative viewpoint

A senior Conservative strategist circulated the following Top Ten list e-mail on the Saturday before the federal election on Monday, January 23. The result of the election, of course, was a narrow Conservative minority government.

THE LIBERALS’ TOP TEN SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS

10. Billions in pre-campaign announcements.

9. Free ride for ...   more »

View Article  Oh, right, the Canadian election!

Sean McCormackJust about every day, Sean McCormack (left), spokesman for U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, holds a Q & A session with reporters who cover the State Department or who have a specific interest in the relationship between the U.S. and one or more countries in the world. And so it was that, at ...   more »

View Article  What censorship looks like: Google and China

Google Inc. is coming under fire in some quarters for agreeing to tailor  — censor, is the operative word for some — its services so that they do not offend the government of China. China is the world’s second largest Internet market and Google is keen to be a part ...   more »

View Article  "Failing the Stalin Test"

“…according to [our] polls, there is no stigma associated with Stalin today. In fact, many Russians hold ambivalent or even positive views of him. For example, one-quarter or more of Russian adults say they would definitely or probably vote for Stalin were he alive and running for president, and less ...   more »

View Article  Wheels down in Calgary
The Airbus A319 carrying Conservative leader Stephen Harper in seat A-1 has just touched down in Calgary. Earlier in the campaign, journalists had dubbed the plane Mr. Happy's Flying Circus. It was meant to be an ironic recognition of the early Liberal strategy of painting Harper as too angry to ...   more »
View Article  That's it!
The campaign is over for Stephen Harper. He closed out his rally speech and his campaign with these words: "Stand up for Canada! Thank you very much for your effort! Merci beaucoup!" The Harper campaign will spend the night in Vancouver and then fly to Calgary. The plan right now ...   more »
View Article  Harper in Victoria
We are in a community centre in Sydney, B.C., near Victoria. There are over 1,000 in the room. The races on Vancouver Island will be tight ones and mostly between the NDP and the Conservatives. Gary Lunn, John Duncan, and James Lunney are the three Conservative incumbents. Duncan and Lunney ...   more »
View Article  A howler from Harper

Howler of the campaign so far came tonight in St. Catharines where more than 1,200 people (that's right -- 1,200 in St. Catharines!) heard Harper lead off a section of his standard stump speech with this line ...

"As you listen to the misquotes and misinformation that will spew out ...   more »
View Article  NDP accused Liberal candidate of bribe

Here is an excerpt from the sworn affidavit the NDP candidate Jeffrey Hansen-Carlson filed with Elections Canada. Hansen-Carlson is describing a meeting he had with Abbotsford Liberal candidate Dave Oliver and Gordy (Possibly Gurdip) Kahlon, the Liberal campaign manager. Abbotsford’s MP is Randy White, a Conservative, who is retiring.

The ...   more »

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