SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 11:00 PM ET. [UPDATED SEPTEMBER 13, 18;Â and AUGUST 24, 2011]. Jack Layton has been proud that his New Democrats have so far not “propped up” the Stephen Harper Conservative minority government. He’s been contemptuous of the Liberals for carrying this can when no one else would. But on some readings he […]
[UPDATED MARCH 18, 2011]. According to Jennifer Ditchburn, just after dinner (in Ottawa at least) last night: “A critical vote that could bring down the minority Conservative government has been tentatively scheduled for next Friday, sources tell The Canadian Press … Conservative sources say the motion is likely to be introduced on Sept. 18, and […]
In the midst of all the current Canadian electoral hyperbole, I was disappointed to hear that “Ignatieff rules out coalition with NDP, Bloc.” If Canadians are now facing a federal “election that seems increasingly inevitable,” the opinion polls at the moment suggest we are likely enough to elect yet another minority government. And a recent […]
It is still not altogether clear that there will actually be a Canadian federal election this fall. But two contradictory trends have developed over the past few days, as all who are still interested await the return of Parliament on Monday, September 14. First, among those closest to the ground in Ottawa there appears to […]
This past Sunday some of us in central Canada were reading about “How Barack Obama lost his mojo.” Listening to his Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Health Care in Washington last night, it was hard to believe that the mojo had ever been misplaced. Senator Barbara Boxer told Rachel Maddow on MSNBC […]
[UPDATED SEPTEMBER 11]. Dr. L. Frank Bunting has finally completed his (as it happens very) in-depth look at the inevitably complex question of whether or not there will or even should be yet another Canadian federal election this fall. For his full report CLICK HERE. For a preview of the three most recent – and […]
On the Calgary Herald website there is a photograph of “Prime Minister Stephen Harper at a news conference in Calgary Sept. 1, 2009” – just after Michael Ignatieff announced “Liberals will vote against government.” And it is at least arguable that the prime minister looks a little like a cat who has just swallowed the […]
Japan still has the second largest national economy in the world today, measured in US dollars. (The 15 largest are, in descending order: United States, Japan, China, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Brazil, Russian Federation, Spain, Canada, India, Mexico, Australia, and South Korea.) So it is perhaps not surprising that after the United States voted […]
The accident-prone Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (or just OLG to its friends) has been causing the Liberal government of Canada’s most populous province further grief. And now some heads have rolled. Our resident Ontario historian, Randall White, has prepared a full if inevitably still quick and dirty report on the deeper background. See the […]
[UPDATED SEPTEMBER 4.] Yesterday Ontario finance minister Dwight Duncan announced at a press conference that he had accepted the resignations of the entire board of directors of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation. A new interim board of senior public servants has been appointed. And it has dismissed the OLG chief executive officer Kelly McDougald […]
