I just lost the seven things about me post that I was tagged with doing after a power flicker at 6:45 am which was 95% done so I am not going to recreate it as I am too bummed out about the whole thing. It was tender and evocative. Challenging yet funny. I can never recreate that this morning. I …

Nice one for the Igg-ster. If this was one of those 1980s high school angst movies like Pretty in Pink, this might be a moment of foreshadowing of the big scene at the dance later on:  •  Newly minted Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has snagged a senior adviser right out from under Prime Minister …

Jay has finally done what a thousand bloggers before have pledged: he is creating a political party. Sure, it's a one issue party but is it good to start small, take baby steps. For those who don't know or haven't cared, the Plan B Party is about a section of the Human Rights Code which permits …

WHAMMO!  •  Just like that, Canadian politics are sent for a loop one more time. Coalition gone. Smug Harper staring at the numbers and we are all saying "Thank God Stephane Dion is Gone-dee-bye-byes!!"  •  Liberal support stood at 34 per cent, one point ahead of the Conservatives and up eight …

There aren't many days when I think that blogging has fulfilled its promise but when Damian wrote me yesterday to tell me that he has been selected to be embedded with the Canadian Armed Forces in Afghanistan, I was both pleased for and proud of him. He's a graduate of RMC so should know his way …

Not having a real Senate and supporting the abolishing of the one we have, I find the powers and make-up of the US one pretty interesting. Consider this question raised in the NYT today:  •  Candidate Obama promised to “re-engage” and “work constructively within” the United Nations Framework …