Calgary Grit
Blog URL http://www.calgarygrit.ca
Located Calagry, Alberta Canada
Tags Liberal Party, Canadian politics, Alberta politics, Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff, political humour, Jack Layton, Ed Stelmach, Canadian election
A look at Canadian politics, from the perspective of the rarest of political creatures - a Liberal in Calgary.
Calgary Grit mixes commentary, humour, and statistical analysis of politics - voted Canada's top political blog in 2008.
Latest Blog Posts
- Party Like It's 2009 on Nov 20, 2009
Everyone went list-crazy in 1999, but the end of the aughts is fast approaching with little fanfare or retrospective. So, since this December figures to be a lot less interesting than the last, this is the perfect time for a Calgary Grit mini-contest...
- Asleep at the switch on Nov 20, 2009
Stephen Taylor poses the following, regarding the Ruby Dhalla nanny thing (which I absolutely refuse to "gate"):Just a few minutes ago, the House of Commons unanimously endorsed a report produced by the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigrati...
- Yet he who is without sin cast the first tweet on Nov 19, 2009 in Charlie Angus twitter politicians looking like idiots
Now:Charlie Angus wants MPs banned from Twitter just “to save politicians from looking like idiots.”The Northern Ontario New Democrat is serious: “I have nothing against the technology, nothing,” he said this morning. “But it really exposes...
- Fun With Numbers: 2008 Conservative Breakthroughs on Nov 17, 2009
A few weeks back, I posted on the ridings where the Liberals exceeded retrospective expectations in the 2008 elections (how's that for a Rumsfeldian opening sentence?).Click on the link for a fuller explanation, but the short of it is these were ridi...
- Meet Your OLO All-Stars on Nov 17, 2009 in who you know in the OLO Peter Donolo
People voters have never heard of, replaced by DIFFERENT people voters have never heard of - film at 11!Dear Liberal Colleagues,Today is my first day on the job as Chief of Staff in Mr. Ignatieff’s office and I am delighted to be back on the Hill a...
- From the "it could be worse" files on Nov 12, 2009 in The ADQ and other failed experiments in democracy
Are you an embattled Canadian political party leader?Well…it could be worse:Outgoing ADQ Leader Gilles Taillon claims he was the victim of a plot organized by the party establishment and federal Quebec Tories that led to his political downfall only...
- Turnout Last Night on Nov 11, 2009 in Voter apathy by elections
I hate to toss up yet another by election post because we shouldn't read too much into them. So rather than look at the results, I'll just add a final word on voter turn-out. Here's where it was yesterday:Montmagny 36.6%Cumberland-Colchester 35.7%New...
