Are other peoples' elections this dull? The more I think about the two debates the more I am stunned by how ineffective they were. The Globe and Mail reports this morning:  •  “Twenty-one per cent of those who saw the debates or heard about them afterward said Mr. Martin won, compared to 15 per …

As my fourth calendar year of maintaining this site and maybe my seventh of reading and commenting on the blogs of others approaches, I should be getting weary or wary but there appears to be some sort of peak of writing quality going on right now. This post by the Flea over one Liberal …

Sharing from you to me that is...  •  Things are going well here in the snow belt. I think we had more snow in the last 12 hours than in the last two winters. Good for the Christmassy feeling. We are not going totally insane with the shopping this year and all but one package to be mailed has been …

The election is going to slide soon. I feel it in my achy joints:  •  You have these words of Mr. Harper from 1997 popping up again:  •  “Bilingualism is largely propaganda, Mr. Harper tells the group. Canada "is basically an English-speaking country," he says. In describing Canada's political …

Other than by cloning Ed Broadbent and bringing him back a few decades younger, what could be better news for the NDP?  •  “Former governor general Ed Schreyer will announce Thursday he's entering the federal election campaign as an NDP candidate in Manitoba, an unprecedented move for a former …

Well, it is up now. I have been invited to join the CBC Election Roundtable of five bloggers from across Canada. It sits on the analysis and commentary page of Canada Votes 2006 at cbc.ca. So, yes, my words now sit in the same server farm as Le Brent.  •  We are to give our views on the events of …

I was not going to write this every day but the gods do conspire and this is a pretty good election we have going in terms of ideas. I can't believe I wrote that. I can't believe I could actually write that with some basis in fact. Do you remember foreign policy? That means that your government …

I have big news for me anyway but I can't say anything about it until tomorrow. A really cool project...but I can't write about it now. It is not that astounding so much as neato. Somewhere between cold fusion and Segway. No...err...that would be nowhere. This is actually a nice little something.

One of the worst and most useless things about blogging is that it is derivative, people copying, cutting and pasting and adding a line or two of observation that is about as original as the other 2754 blogs that have copy, cut and pasted the same thing. Kinda what I mostly do.  •  But have a look …