Bryan

This has been going on for quite a while. Very few PCers are happy with Stelmach. Most consider him a Liberal. If the Liberal Party wasn't a complete non-entity in Alberta, I'm quite certain he'd be one. It's a wonder he won the leadership in the first place, but considering the totally unconservative way he's been running Alberta, I would expect him to lose seats to Wildrose next time around. Alberta has a history of dropping one conservative option for another, then sticking with that choice to the ultimate demise of the former. I think Wildrose has a very legitimate chance of becoming "next".

You don't even know what term limits means, do you?

Possible.

They're either lying or incompetent, take your pick.

CP is lying, Nicholls is probably just misinformed. The content changes all the time, content on the front page cycles back to one of the thousands of pages on the site. What might have been front page one day may well be on another section now, but nothing is missing. It especially changes based on what's been announced. If the PM made some speeches that week, he'll be all over the front page. If other MPs made speeches/announcements, they'll be featured.

List the specific images. Show them in the cached copy, and prove they are missing from the current version.

No they don't. The pictures are still there. This "scandal" is wafer-gate all over again: Liberals making something up that never happened, then attacking that strawman.

Did you look at the cached copy? The same pictures are on the new version. The main feature spots cycle the content each time you visit, and they add new content every time there is a new announcement. Nothing's been removed.

If anything, the media blitz about H1N1 is grossly overhyped. Far too many resources are being wasted on this.

Seriously, anything at all that isn't coming from an activist site?

The only Conservatives who are even remotely disappointed in Harper are the ones who think he's already turned out to be far too PC than they thought he would be. The party could not go further left with the next leader. If they did, they would just trigger Reform all over again. Liberals might like that, but anyone honestly looking for 'progressive- conservatism' would be left in an even worse position than they're in now.

I sure as hell do. When activist judges can just decree that things are "unconstitutional", the government should also have the right to respond to that by just changing the constitution. It should not be considered a "crisis" if people want to fix that horrific mess that Trudeau foisted on us. The very fact that not all provinces even officially ratified it makes it invalid as far as I'm concerned. If you really want a "set in stone" constitution, you've got to come up with something better than what we have now.

Ignatieff will lose if he runs in an election, even he knows that full well right now. He'll probably just quit and go back to Harvard instead of lining up just to lose. Rae will probably replace him, but he won't fare any better. McKenna is probably their only legitimate shot in the near future.

Even if you do keep it out of the courts, and the son is physically fine, at least get a new bike out of her.

To be totally serious, it doesn't surprise me at all. I've been saying it since before he was appointed leader, and I still honestly believe it; Ignatieff will be easier to beat than Dion was. The only surprising part of the polling trends to me are: a) that even CBC's polls are showing it. that the CPC is even gaining ground in Quebec again, I honestly thought that ship has sailed. c) that a lot of the CPC gains have been at the expense of the NDP. I know a lot of Manitobans who will vote Conservative or NDP only (never Liberal), but I didn't think that would happen in the rest of the country.

The guy changes his mind by the hour. What is he doing, channelling John Kerry?

It's not a tax, you do have a choice. Opt out of employment, go into business for yourself. Self-employed still pay tax, but not EI. Lots of contract employees don't pay into EI either.

We do, just not directly. If it was as simple as you seem to think, the leaders wouldn't spend so much time campaigning, there would not be leaders debates, and there would not be federal advertising campaigns. It absolutely IS about the party. Who runs locally for that party is seat, while important, is still secondary.

Yes, and for a very real current example of that, look at the current polling. The Liberal support has remained essentially static, while the Conservative support has gone up. How is that possible? NDP support has dropped. I actually do know plenty of people (especially here in Manitoba) who will vote either Conservative or NDP but never Liberal. It seems illogical, but it does demonstrate that you cannot lump "other" together.

False. It's insurance, separately accounted from general revenues. If your house or car insurance goes up, that's not a tax increase. If the cost of operating EI increases, so do the premiums, just like any other insurance.

I guess it depends on how much bias the MSM shows. If they actively campaign against Harper the way they have in the past, I sure won't have nice words for them. If they just call it as it is, and Ignatieff doesn't light his own campaign on fire, I'll just be shocked.

Perfect. Short and succinct. Even Reform had seats in five provinces by their second election.

About what?

Instead of deciding on the spot who's in and who's not, the networks should develop a checklist of criteria. If you can fulfill the requirements, you're in, nothing to discuss. At bare minimum, it should be limited to parties that actually have seats in the house. Something that requires the party to actually be national (running in more than one province, etc) should be there too.

If what doesn't happen?