A surprising Abacus Data poll says the Liberals would vault from their third-place doldrums into a statistical tie with the Harper Tories atop the polls with Justin Trudeau as leader, leaving Mulcair's NDP eating red dust. Don't believe it. This poll shows he's cute, people have heard of him and the lad can punch. But not that he's the stuff political dreams are made of. Click here to read the rest.
Jim Flaherty thinks we’re financial idiots. What a coincidence. Click here to read the rest.
On Tuesday, Wisconsin voters took the momentous step of not firing their governor. It's very good news for the United States, and probably Canada too. Click here to read more.
When even politicians say Canada has too many politicians, don’t believe them. They’re just trying to get rid of the competition. Click here to read the rest.
The recent modest reforms to Employment Insurance are in fact far too modest. Even so, they may force the Opposition’s brains to get off the couch and find real work. Click here to read the rest.
So the UN thinks Canada needs a national food policy. And some snooty Harvard-educated multi-professor of judicial fantasizing to come here, berate us for every sin in the left-wing catechism and urge us to wish away our problems. Well, we don't. Click here to read the rest.
It’s starting to look as though this school co-parenting thing is more complicated than it looks. Even the bit about eating your veggies. Premier Dad hectors your kids and serves them cardboard and they just won’t bend to his will. Click here to read the rest.
One side-effect of Europe's financial crisis is the rise of fringe parties who want to dump the Euro and maybe the whole European Union. So it's not all bad news.