Dion’s failure to get out the progressive vote last week is, in my opinion, as much of a commentary on politics as it is on Dion.

The Liberals are doomed. Does anyone honestly think that Ignatieff or Rae or Tobin or (hey, we can hope) McKenna can just sweep in and lead the Liberals back to victories? Not a chance ( Read more... )

I just e-voted in the HRM election. Boy, was it easy. Your PIN is in the mailing you get if you're on the voters list. (Of course, I had to get my mother to read me mine over the phone ( Read more... )

I've just realized that I have almost no reason to go back to Saint Mary's when I return, aside from its merits. And it's a meritorious school ( Read more... )

In 2000, the Alliance was not a threat. It was my first federal election as an eligible voter, and I felt free to vote as I pleased; in the end I voted for the NDP incumbent, who’d appeared for a candidate’s debate at my university in place of then-leader McDonough, and rather than being disappointed that McDonough couldn’t make it (it was ( Read more... )