[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 […]
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 […]
Especially in countries like Canada, it is important for political leaders to surprise the people from time to time, to keep our interest up. And federal Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has done just that, in his appointment of retiring Manitoba New Democrat Premier Gary Doer as Canada’s new ambassador to the United States. In […]
We still have [Dr.] Frank Bunting hard at work on a deep think-piece about the real prospects of yet another Canadian federal election this fall. But he has just told us that everything has been suddenly blurred by two conflicting opinion polls that came out at the start of this week. An Ipsos Reid survey, […]
[UPDATED AUGUST 24, 25, 27]. We first heard the (almost certainly false?) prophecy that the Bank of Montreal is in some kind of quite serious difficulty from twitterings on the net. One source is something called Washington’s Blog, which posted a short piece headlined “Is the Bank of Montreal (Canada’s 4th Largest Bank) About to […]
The Vancouver Sun thinks “A Halloween election would be … frightening.” Prime Minister Harper himself has said “I can assure you that I do not intend to trigger an election.” (Whatever that means?) Another Canadian federal election may nonetheless be upon us before the end of 2009. We have commissioned a deeper report from our […]
We were saddened to hear that Ted “Teeder” Kennedy, who played centre for the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey club in the 1940s and 1950s – and helped them win five Stanley Cups – passed away in Port Colborne, Ontario on August 14, 2009, at the age of 83. We are pleased, however, that we managed […]
UPDATED AUGUST 16. The federal New Democratic Party is meeting at the World Trade and Convention Centre in Halifax this coming Friday-Sunday, August 14—16. Among many other things, “delegates will debate and vote on a proposal to drop the ‘New’ from the party’s name, going with just the Democratic Party.” Our guess is that delegates […]
The first Monday in August is a holiday of sorts in eight Canadian provinces and two territories. If your idea of the best way to spend holiday weekends is relaxing with your computer, read on: * More than one million are expected for the annual Caribana madness in Toronto this holiday weekend. The Iroquois who […]
OTTAWA. The still mysterious Employment Insurance Working Group is apparently meeting for the first time this afternoon. The rain is setting the right kind of mood. You may or may not recall that this group was hastily nailed together last month to avoid a Canadian federal election this summer. If it comes up with some […]
