OttawaFriesenmania in Winnipeg!Okay, maybe that’s a slight exaggeration, but I have to think that convincing the up-until-yesterday president of the Canadian...
OttawaMike White: International Man of Mystery(Okay, maybe just "interprovincial", since he hasn’t -- yet -- been dispatched across the border, but that doesn’t make for nearly...
OttawaOily the Splot: Terrifying international SvengaliAlert Inkless commenter jwl notes that Barack Obama’s gas-pump political ads, eerily reminiscent of the Conservative Party of...
OttawaOily the Splot gets a green card!Just guess where this Obama ad is playing. No, guess. Go ahead and guess!! Okay, I’ll tell you. It’s running on wee TV screens on...
OttawaAnd this is why it’s a good idea to read your own press release before it goes out ...Otherwise, you run the risk of looking as silly as our defence minister. As An Observant But Shy Reader pointed out this...
UncategorizedIntroducing the new PMO director of communicationsYou know his work, even if you do not know him. Kory Teneycke, the new director of communications for Prime Minister Stephen...
UncategorizedOily and Jack: Matches made on Wellington St.Photo credit: stephentaylor.ca From Stephen Taylor’s blog, a well-informed inside look at how ’s Stephen Harper’s party conceived...
GeneralIf the campaign comes to you, come to Maclean’s, but frankly we’re not holding our breathSo has anyone actually heard a Dion’s Tax On Everything radio ad or seen Oily the Splot at the gas station? Hope springs...
GeneralMegapundit: Wilma Flintstone on modern parentingMust-reads: Andrew Cohen on Judaism in Poland; Jonathan Kay on the decline of jihadism; Barbara Yaffe on the gender equality...
UncategorizedOily the Splot: FWIWFor what it’s worth, I don’t find anything particularly nefarious or illegitimate with the Conservatives’ wanting to advertise at...