Jay Currie

I was there. My LAV CASEVACed Bulletmagnet after he was hit by the same shrap that got Mellish and Cushley. It was a Taliban Spig 9, not friendly fire.

Jack Harris is a tool. milnet.ca

The attempt to control Gaza from outside, via its residents’ diet and shopping lists, casts a heavy moral stain on Israel and increases its international isolation. Every Israeli should be ashamed of the list of goods prepared by the Defense Ministry, which allows cinnamon and plastic buckets into Gaza, but not houseplants and coriander. It’s [...]

I have long thought a Liberal/NDP merger would be a great idea. All the nuts in one bag.

Now the Liberals are only talking coalition and not all of them are on board. But it would be a great thing for Canada.

For a very long time the NDP has been supplying the Liberal Party’s talking points. [...]

To nobody’s great surprise, President Ahmadinejad’s star-attraction speech in Geneva ended up being what French president Nicolas Sarkozy later called “an intolerable appeal for racist hatred.” The speech was in fact just more of Ahmadinejad’s usual anti-semitic rubbish. Eight countries were already boycotting the event, but the speech was enough to prompt delegates from another [...]

Also, I haven’t seen any economist mention this yet, but I think it’s pretty significant that Jack Layton is in favour of a massive stimulus package, which is really the best argument against it I’ve heard yet. Listening to Jack Layton on the economy is like getting parenting advice from Britney Spears: “Alls y’all [...]

“There is fear in the land,” said Ignatieff, who has been holding consultations across the country in advance of the return of Parliament on Jan. 26. the star

The elderly will remember Keith Spicer’s 1991 Report following the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord which, if memory serves, began “There is anger in the land.”

That anger, [...]

“The American people have spoken,” said Obama. “They demand change, and I promise that I and every one of my former Clinton administration appointees will work hard to deliver that change.” He also said something about hope and sacrifice and believing.

Other highlights of the plan include:

The Toronto Star, Pravda for the Toronto Party, reports:

Federal Liberals say that Stéphane Dion’s leadership role could be coming to an early end as the party gears up for the next round of political conflict with Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government. toronto star

Of course those are just “unnamed sources”. Over at the Globe and Mail [...]

That’s the sound of the Coalition lead balloon’s slow motion death spiral hitting the hard frozen ground.

The prorogation of this session of Parliament gives Harper and the CPC time to write an Election Budget, appoint a few Liberal MPs to sinecures, run an advertising campaign to paint the Libs and NDP as Bloc huggers, and [...]

Face Parliament on Monday.

Appoint a few Ambassadors and Crown Corp Chairman from the Liberal ranks. (But not Iggy’s people.) Take a meeting with Iggy. Ignore Dion.

Watch the Liberals scutter.

Win the vote.

I was in Guelph last Friday for a meeting. I wish I had met Frank Valeriote then. Maybe someday soon.

Here’s another brave man, Michael Chong, from the other side of the aisle. We were at a wonderful Sikh wedding last weekend, and Michael was there – and I can attest to the fact that he, [...]

I know a good many Liberals who are utterly aghast at where this is taking their party. Simply put, Dion is driving them off a cliff. That picture of Dion, Duceppe and Layton together on the podium will be featured in every Tory attack ad from here to kingdom come. It will burn its way [...]

“In the years that I have served in the (legislature), I don’t know if there was another issue that’s drawn such angry response from Albertans,” Stelmach said Tuesday afternoon. The premier has been representing rural residents in and around Vegreville since 1993.

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“Let’s put Canada first…. Allow the prime minister to deliver the budget, and then [...]

Here’s Ezra’s point 17 – the other 16 are well worth reading if you want to understand the nuts and bolts of the “Coalition”.

17. My point is this: This isn’t a Liberal-NDP deal. A Liberal-NDP deal doesn’t get them to a majority. A Liberal-NDP deal would be ignored by the Governor General. Only a [...]

What might the partners in a new coalition government do about Afghanistan? The Liberals voted to extend Canada’s military mission until 2011; the NDP and the Bloc Québécois want our forces out as soon as possible. How can there be a coherent government policy? mark at daimnation

Fortunately the largest point drop in the TSE’s history had nothing to do with the Three Mouseketeers. For a look at life under the new junta you won’t do better than the Flaming Kitty.

“We’ve decided that the only person and the best person to lead and form a coalition government is the elected leader of our party … Stéphane Dion,” said leadership hopeful Dominic LeBlanc.

“We are comfortable with that, we support that and we think that’s right.” globe and mail

Kate has been pulling for this for donkey’s years.

The [...]

If Stéphane Dion really wants to be Prime Minister, let him. The best Christmas gift the Conservatives could get right now is to lose power.

How does that make sense? Let us count the ways:

1) Having an unpopular dud like Stéphane Dion as leader hurt the Liberal brand. Having him as prime minister will kill it. [...]

While we watch the clash of egos in Ottawa (and Toronto) let’s take a moment to consider the broader implications of an NDP/Toronto Party coalition supported by the Bloc.

First off, regardless of whether the coalition achieves government – which I think unlikely at the moment but no matter – an essential fact about Canadian politics [...]

There is a good deal of excitement/hysteria over the prospect of the defeat of the CPC and the installation of an NDP/Liberal coalition.

The trigger for this was the CPC’s announcement, since retracted, that in its economic plan it was going to cut the $1.95 a vote/year public subsidy Canada’s main political parties now enjoy. But [...]