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Kelly McParland: Liberals to gather for super-mega-brainfest

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The Liberals are planning a big think-fest in Montreal in March, to figure out what they stand for. In a way you have to admire this: Rather than sit around the leader's office making up policies, Liberal worthies will gather for three days to listen to one another and hope some good ideas emerge. In a letter today, Michael Ignatieff positioned the gathering as a successor to similar brainstorming...

National Post editorial board: End the 10-per centers

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On Sunday, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff wrote to Parliamentary Speaker Peter Milliken asking that stringent new guidelines be imposed on MPs' use of "tenpercenters," the free mailings each MP may send to voters in ridings other than his or her own. Members of Parliament are permitted to send such far-flung flyers, brochures or postcards -- equal in number "to a maximum of 10% of...

Christmas Letters: Stephen Harper

CalgaryGrit (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

It's that time of the year again, when Christmas cards and year-end letters start arriving in the mail. I've managed to get my hands on the letters being sent out by all party leaders and will be posting them here over the next week. First off, the Prime Minister. Greetings friends! It’s been another great year despite these grave economic times, which we are only now coming out of thanks to...

Checking in on the "in and out" litigation

Impolitical (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

The "in and out" litigation is being heard in the Federal Court this week. This is the one where the Conservatives are seeking to exploit what they believe is a loophole in the Elections Act. It's a gigantic loophole that they're arguing for, actually, one that would essentially render meaningless the federal campaign spending limits on national parties. Their argument is that they can transfer...

Pointing Out The Obvious

They Call Me "Mr. Sinister" (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

Robert Silver in the Globe : What makes this fact interesting (at least to me) is that while the Liberals are at an all time low in popular support in the polls (and no - none of this should be taken as a statement that all is good in Liberal poll land), the NDP have really not been the beneficiaries at all of our swoon. In fact, 15.9 per cent would be Jack Layton's second worst result as leader. Even...

• NDP running dead average - Globe and Mail

Torture: Layton Takes a Swipe at Ignatieff

liberal catnip (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

From Monday's Question Period : Hon. Jack Layton (Toronto—Danforth, NDP): Mr. Speaker, when it comes to this whole question of torture, unlike other party leaders , we are not going to stand for denying of the evidence. We are not going to cover up the truth. We are not going to write books justifying torture in any way, shape or form. Nothing can justify torture and nothing can justify the full-scale...

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Jewschool (Free subscription) | yesterday

Update to Canadian Conservatives Woo the Jews: Leading members of the Jewish community – many identified as Liberals – have sent a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper asking him to withdraw a taxpayer-funded Conservative flyer that they say portrays the Liberal Party as anti-Semitic. …. “We find it highly disturbing that any party or parliamentarian would [...]

The road back

Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday

As he tries to find a way back to contention, there are two roads open to Michael Ignatieff. Here’s the first: Michael Ignatieff isn’t a Tim Horton’s kind of guy – and that suits his new chief of staff just fine. Peter Donolo has spent his first week on the job reminding Liberals that party icon Pierre [...]

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Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday

Jack Layton’s third question this afternoon. Mr. Speaker, when it comes to this whole question of torture, unlike other party leaders, we are not going to stand for denying of the evidence, we are not going to cover up the truth, and we are not going to write books justifying torture in any way, shape or [...]

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Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday

The first Bloc Quebecois student club outside Quebec has been formed at the University of Ottawa: Les Bloquistes de l’Universite d’Ottawa, recently approved by the university’s student federation, is now eligible for a variety of services, such as use of rooms at the university, and up to $1,000 a year in funding from the student federation [...]

Paying attention: The sad story of the passengers’ bill of rights

Rob Cottingham (Free subscription) | yesterday

MPs from all parties professed to support the idea, including then transport minister Lawrence Cannon.But behind the scenes, his office was pleading with the airlines to launch a lobby campaign to defeat the motion, according to documents obtained by Canwest News Service.While Cannon was promising to bring in a travellers’ bill of rights, a key [...]

Steve Janke: Janine Krieber's letter a last gasp as the door shuts on the Liberal left

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Back in January, I wrote that the Liberal Party faced a serious problem in the aftermath of Stephane Dion's disastrous leadership coup mounted by Michael Ignatieff to take over the leadership of the Liberal Party without a vote. The problem was the fury of Canada's left , both within the Liberal Party and those outside of it, which had come so tantalizingly close to achieving power, only to see it...

• Janine Krieber letter points to a far more serious problem for the Liberal Party - Angry in the Great White North

Senate Confirms Paul Martin as NASA Inspector General

The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

Paul Martin, formerly of the Justice Department, is re-launching his career. Sort of. Martin was confirmed by the Senate on Friday as the inspector general for NASA. Since 2003, Martin had been Justice’s deputy inspector general, serving under Inspector General...

• NASA's New IG Confirmed By Senate - NASA Watch

Ottawa press pack upset at silent Prime Minister

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The Prime Minister's relations (or lack thereof) with the Ottawa press gallery has once again got the gallery worked up. The Toronto Star got all exercised after Mr. Harper gave a speech on Saturday extolling press freedom, then failed to take questions from reporters. (Note to Star: "Freedom of the press" isn't synonymous with having regular press conferences with the prime minister. Freedom...

Liberal Party, heading for the trashcan of history

The News Cruncher (Free subscription) | yesterday

Janine Krieber, the wife of former Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, one of Canada’s dimmest light bulbs and a lifelong admirer of all things Marxist, has attacked the Liberal Party, saying that it’s headed “for the trashcan of history”. This is true, of course, but her comments reveal a lot of troubling aspects. First, Krieber’s background is Austrian, or to be more...

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