Feel that? A rush of warm air in the frigid, dry winter air? That hot tingle running up your leg? Feeling all fuzzy inside? It’s ELECTION SPECULATION FEVER SEASON! Have you got the FEVER?
The Conservatives have introduced their new Human Smuggling bill, and everyone hates it! The Liberals and NDP are gonna vote against it! [...]
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It’s been a couple weeks of protests, earthquakes, tornadoes, royalty and a dead hockey goon. Here’s some brewing news stories that might’ve slipped through the cracks!
> Oh wow, hey, there’s a new Governor General? I’d just planned on mailing in a News In Briefs today, but the changing of our head of state’s official representative [...]
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Everyone loves interviews, because it gives a chance to meet people, learn about their ideas, and – most importantly – it means we have to do less writing! Here’s a new feature, Ask A Party Hack, where we ask the tough questions of the day to a totally biased partisan we find! If you love [...]
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As I type this, Your Honourable Leader of the Opposition His Iggyness is engaged in an online live chat! Not with the media, or a newspaper… with a Facebook group! Oh God, the political parties are becoming aware of “The Internet”! Soon it’s gonna be all, Facebook Michael Ignatieff’s Twitters On Youtube To Blog A [...]
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Here’s how easy it would be to win this contest, or at least aim for #3, so you can get that SWEET, SWEET COAL to burn. It’ll come in handy when your suburban McMansion gets foreclosed on, and you’ll need something to burn to keep warm on the streets this winter!
Two main themes emerged in [...]
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The Liberal Party, in a long and painful struggle to seem hip and cool, has launched a Photoshop challenge! I imagine the conversation went something like this:
Staffer 1: Alright, we need something fun, something fresh, something to get people involved! Web 2.0! Social networking! New media! Rap music! Buzzword! Buzzword!
Staffer 2: What’s that thing Rick [...]
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You’ve all heard about this already, right? Probably, since you’re a politics wonk. But here it is anyways: Janine Krieber, the lovely wife of a Monsieur Stephane Dion (remember THAT guy?) has some beef with Michael Ignatieff, and posted a nasty little diatribe about him on Facebook, the popular friend-stalking network. We’re not gonna acknowledge [...]
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This is why this blog was started. For moments like this. For Dean Del Mastro.
Summary, if you’ve been oblivious to hilarious current events: Conservative MP for Peterborough and known lardbutt, Dean Del Mastro, was being a dick to some Liberals in a committee where he insisted that the Sponsorship Scandal (hey, remember that? Retro!) be [...]
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