The big news, other than I got up too early, is:  •  Ben at Haavaad had a few last night and joined in the Canadian conservative song of the long knives which has broken out early in this campaign. The polls are not annointing their own so it is time to pack it in even though there are six weeks …

OK. It is now act two. We have passed the first act, established a whole bunch of stuff, the main players have made their best opening statements and we have a sense of where the story is going. And we know we are nowhere near act four because the stage is not yet littered with bodies.  •  The …

The best policy announcement this weekend has not come from any of the political parties. It has come from Jay Currie and it is his plan to pay off the Federal debt in a timely manner:  •  “Instead of throwing away eight billion dollars on pre-election promises or 4.5 billion on a GST cut, we are …

Interesting stuff happening and at a pace I don't think anyone anticipated. For me the quotation of the day is not about health care or taxes but this one from Giles Duceppe:  •  “"Is Paul Martin in the process of telling us that if we win the election (in Quebec), he is going to negotiate Quebec …

Not only am I letting you do all the heavy lifting this Friday, I am also not getting anywhere near a computer until later.  So I better post this now.   Ideas....  •  GST reduction v. income tax reduction - which to drop?  This is such a luxurious election.   I can't remember one ever that was …

You didn't think I was going to do this every day, did you? I couldn't imagine pretending there was something of interest in every day of the campaign. But yesterday there was.  •  The Conservative's call for a public prosecutor is very interesting. It places the accountability argument into the …

Ben o'Boston has raised an interesting argument in my mind for the Tory NDP coalition that some hope for. If the NDP raises fears of fiscal wackiness, let the conservatives run the fiscal side and if the CPC raises fears of neanderthal-like social conservatism, let the NDP run the social programs …

It is 7:07 am and as far as I can tell nothing has happened in the twelve hours since the fall of our government. No halt to the flow of taxation and expenditure. No tanks in the streets. Not even a trip to the Governor General to ask for dissolution of Parliament. Do these people know the cost of …

With the passing of the motion of non-confidence this evening, we can now announce plans for the campaign coverage to come here at Gen X at 40 HQ:  •  clever new news sources such as listening to the morning news in that half-awake pre-caffinated state that I shake about 10:45 am will be added to …