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Liberals and Iggy promise national childcare program

Posted by Scott Tribe on February 2, 2010, at 9:29 am |

It’s been nice to see not only the Liberals capitalize on the Conservatives proroguing of Parliament by showing up for work on the Hill, but actually doing some substantive announcements and round-tables on policy, and this is probably their biggest and best one to date – promising to implement a national childcare/daycare program, regardless of [...]

The time isn't to panic.. the time is to rethink strategy.

Posted by Scott Tribe on October 8, 2009, at 1:28 pm |

I won’t sugar-coat my views on things; the latest set of polls are not good for those of us in the Liberal camp. The latest includes today’s Ekos poll release, that has a few of us Liberal-allied blogs smarting. I’m sure the Liberal politicians and strategists are smarting even worse.

I have a few qualifiers [...]

My attempt at a segue

Posted by Scott Tribe on September 13, 2009, at 11:53 am |

I saw this status message on Facebook from a “friend” – who I believe ironically enough is a Harper/Conservative supporter, but who was leaving this in a non-political context:

“Great people talk about ideas; average people talk about things, small people talk about other people. In other words, those talking about others have nothing intelligent to [...]

Ignatieff: 'We can do better' TV ads pre-released to Youtube, Facebook

Posted by Scott Tribe on September 6, 2009, at 1:07 pm |

The English language ad titled “WorldView”:

..and the 2 French language ads – one dealing with the Harper record on the environment, the other with the Harper record on the deficit:

These will be on Canadian TV networks and stations soon, and 3 more of these ads are due out on TV in the next few [...]

Best article on the Obama visit…

Posted by Scott Tribe on February 20, 2009, at 11:15 am |

.. in my admittedly Liberal-slanted POV comes from Richard Gwyn of the Star, commenting on the Obama/Ignatieff meeting, titled, Ignatieff has what it takes to be a first-tier leader:

Unless all my instincts are dulled and my antennae have rusted (most certainly possible), I’m pretty sure Ignatieff is going to become our next prime minister…This thought, [...]

Obama and Ignatieff dicuss Omar Khadr.

Posted by Scott Tribe on February 19, 2009, at 11:48 pm |

True to his word, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff and (presumably) Bob Rae discussed Omar Khadr with the President today. Here’s part of the discussion President Obama had with Iggy over the Khadr file, as made public by the Liberal leader:

The leader of the official Opposition said Obama told him that the detainees are being classified [...]

“Iggy is too uppity to be a leader”

Posted by Scott Tribe on January 6, 2009, at 7:12 pm |

That will apparently be the Conservatives – or at least the Blogging Tories – line going after Ignatieff come the next election, if this blogentry of Stephen Taylor that was highlighted over at Macleans is any indication. Apparently, Harper’s attending more hockey games then Ignatieff shows he has the appeal to the common man, or [...]

Thoughts on our new Liberal leader.

Posted by Scott Tribe on December 9, 2008, at 12:19 pm |

So, Michael Ignatieff will be picked as the new Liberal leader by virtue of Bob Rae dropping out this afternoon. As I said in my last blogpost, while I’m a bit uncomfortable with what the Liberal Executive decided on last night, which more or less sealed Rae’s fate, I do congratulate Mr. Ignatieff [...]

Random Observations – Harper, Colombia, more Iggy blog endorsements.

Posted by Scott Tribe on November 25, 2008, at 12:42 pm |

- In case you missed it, Harper has signed a Free Trade agreement with Colombia, which has had one of the worst human-rights records in the hemisphere, as well as still being the largest producer of cocaine in the world. It’s not a surprise Harper would sign this despite all of that, since he considers [...]

The 2 most unsurprising events of the day

Posted by Scott Tribe on November 13, 2008, at 2:12 pm |

1) Michael Ignatieff announces he is running for the Liberal leadership

2) Warren Kinsella announces he is supporting Mr. Ignatieff‘’s candidacy.

I’m glad about #2: the breathless speculation of who Warren is supporting can now cease and desist – I suppose we’ll now see some Liberal bloggers going after Warren for his choice, but I have to [...]

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Best article on the Obama visit…

Obama and Ignatieff dicuss Omar Khadr.

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