The Toronto Star has a useful page on the various pollsters, tracking their output sensibly over time, setting out the results from 30 different polls since the elections call. What do you notice? First, Nanos Research is really seeing something different than the others with the Tory lead ranging …

Have you noticed how Stephen Harper can't really throw the dirty gutter talk with the rest of them? As a man with an MA in economics, hallmark of the solitary, I suppose it is reasonable to understand his lack of the gift of the gab but it is a bit sad when he slams those who oppose his crime …

Liberals release election platform that is not entirely nuts and promises a balanced budget. Check. Ho hum. Tories determine outing 14 year old criminals by name will be a useful deterrent of some sort. Check. Hum ho.Duceppe says Ottawa does not understand Quebec. Check. Hum Hum. The polls are all …

Why do people say these things? Unplugged? Does he mean doing an acoustic set or being taken off life support? In either case, I don't think Liberal spokesperson Senator Jim Munson (who? that's who!) meant either when he was describing today's planned unveiling of the Grit platform, as reported by …

Interesting how many candidates are falling by the wayside this election, how many parties are not tolerating unacceptable statements. As Robert notes, now we have Toronto Conservative candidate Chris Reid let go for his opinions arising after the terrible terrible events that led to the death of …

Ben started it. He made reference to "conservatism" - a concept that, as far as I am concerned, does not exits. It's a grouping of different, divergent and sometimes contradictory ideas. The odder idea is "liberalism" which is a word referencing non-being used by people who espouse "conservatism" …

Now? I hope the vote plays out like this:  •  CPC - 124Grits - 103Bloq - 51NDP - 29Other - 1  •  You get my point, right? Dullsville. Could there be a duller election? How could that be? Hmmm...maybe all parties could declare we are getting out of Afghanistan, no change to health care, announce …

This poses an important question: given we are all incredible stupid at exactly the wrong moments, should we hold public figures more accountable for being dopes? Consider the humour employed by Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz leveraging the listeria crisis, a crisis which has occurred under his …

It has officially begun. The long knives are out. Warren Kinsella was on CBC Radio's Ontario Morning explaining what Hans and Sean, both Liberal card carriers¹ if you don't have a program, were going on about yesterday. Dion's people are Martin's people and they don't want Chretien's people back …