Liberals lost a lot of seats tonight. Dion will have a serious choice to make soon and I think he will do the right thing for the party. If he doesn’t step down, he might risk getting thrown off. Harper has one more election in him. NDP gained seats so Layton has at least one [...]

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Lieberman, McCain’s good friend and supporter, would have been VP if he was anti-choice, had this to say about tonight’s debate between Palin and Biden : 
“What she needs to do tonight is get this public consideration of her back to who she is and her strong points and, frankly, get it away from being a, kind [...]

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The vote failed on the bailout plan and markets fell, setting new records. Although I can see why some smart people supported the plan, ultimately I think it would have been a mistake from a political and moral perspective to pass it. However, that doesn’t mean the 700 billion can’t be put to good use [...]

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Here is the dilemma, how should the PM describe the economy a few weeks before an election during economic troubles? Its the loose-loose scenario that Liberals and NDP are just starting to capitalize on. Should he say the economy is doing well to boost investor confidence but risk sounding out of touch with voters? Or should he say [...]

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Thats an election official leaving Conservative Party office with files (Tom Hanson/The Canadian Press).
Just when Canadian political news coverage has slowed down to a crawl, the RCMP and Elections Canada just dropped the mother of all political bombs.
The allegation is basically around election money laundering. The accusation is that Conservatives gave $1.2 million to their [...]

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Since my time has been dominated by exams and assignments, here are some, off the top of my head, bits and pieces:
- This so called “piracy scandal” got some major attention, incredible use of free media by the protestors, I am not sure if they could have wished for anything more. I suppose its a [...]

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