OttawaBTC: Free DionIn blessed hindsight, the decision of the Liberal campaign to put Stephane Dion’s teleprompter out of his, its or our misery is...
OttawaMorning memo: The Conservatives take a commanding lead in the polls, Pauline Marois makes a case for the Bloc, and Elizabeth May says she’s no Ralph NaderBEST PHOTO: POLL OF THE DAY: The latest Nanos Research poll puts the Conservatives over the mythical 40% hump that’s widely...
OttawaBTC: SubstancePhilippe Gohier on carbon taxes and candidate vetting . Colin Campbell on income trusts . Andrew Coyne on the economy . Scott...
OttawaMorning memo: The Liberals can take comfort in the knowledge people still like them—just a little bit less than they do someone lessBEST PHOTO: POLL OF THE DAY: Most polls have the Conservatives ahead of the Liberals by a comfortable double-digit margin. The...
UncategorizedMeanwhile, under the Arctic ice...The most depressing thing about this campaign is the way the climate change debate has gone. Any hope that it might rise to the...
OttawaDoes Stéphane Dion’s promise to cancel the tax on income trusts make sense?As politicians’ broken promises go, the Conservative government’s decision in October 2006 to reverse course and put a new tax...
OttawaBTC: Coalition thisStephane Dion dismisses the NDP. And makes a funny. "“Mr. Layton already has a coalition, I understand. He has a coalition with...
OttawaBTC: Hold the coalitionA note from the NDP campaign. "We did not say what the media are inferring. We said from the PM’s chair if required we would do...
OttawaBTC: Oui, oui, a thousand times ouiMr. Dion and the Liberal braintrust—each with a tiny glass of water—are on stage, taking questions. Would you like to know...