The Dan Report

The Globe and Mail's Perspective

2008-06-23T22:02:00.004-05:00

Apparently the announcement by Stéphane Dion of his Green Shift plan merited no headline coverage on the Globe's website last Thursday. But in their opinion the fact that the plan shares a name with...

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The National Implicates Ian Brodie

2008-03-05T21:22:00.004-06:00

According to this evening's The National, the origins of the Naftagate began when Ian Brodie blabbed about the meeting of Obama's economic advisor and Canadian consulate officials with members of the...

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Whither Orchard?

2008-01-29T23:19:00.000-06:00

John Dorion is now supporting Joan Beatty's appointment and is taking shots at Orchard. Seems like Mr.Orchard is reaching the point of no return if he hasn't already crossed it. Orchard may want to...

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Conservative MP Kickback Controversy

2008-01-14T18:56:00.000-06:00

No not the in-and-out issue, but Global is reporting that Conservative MP Gary Goodyear from Cambridge is in a little hot water for handling of election expenses in 2004. Global National reports...

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What The Other Guy Thinks

2008-01-13T11:58:00.000-06:00

Dorion Upset With Media Attention On Orchard Friday, January 11, 2008 at 13:30 One of two men hoping to become the Liberal nominee in a northern Saskatchewan by-election...

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Correction

2008-01-09T19:08:00.000-06:00

Well I'm obviously not as pleased with the situation in Northern Saskatchewan as I was. I think I was just being hopeful. Talk about a lot of bad decisions being made by a lot of people. Amazingly...

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Ownage All Around

2008-01-08T22:38:00.000-06:00

Hillary owns the pollsters, every pundit around, Obama, and me. Experienced bureaucrat totally owns Gary Lunn. Joy Smith, oddly enough, owns Vic Toews.

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That's My Boy!

2008-01-03T22:41:00.000-06:00

Barack has won the all too important Iowa caucus. That's great news. I don't think it's over for Hillary but I still feel for her. Sometimes no matter how deserving a person is, the right...

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Tip For David Orchard

2007-12-19T21:33:00.000-06:00

I'm overstepping here, as I don't know much about Saskatchewan politics or David Orchard. But I'm going to say it anyways. If Joan Beatty really wants to run, and David Orchard really wants to...

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Make No Mistake About Harper Foreign Policy

2007-11-28T14:55:00.000-06:00

In March of this year a world poll indicated that of all the leading countries in the world Canada is viewed most positively. This is one poll in a long line of polls indicating how well Canada is...

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Harper in Kampala

2007-11-24T15:50:00.000-06:00

I don't understand what was going on in Kampala, I really don't. Maybe Harper's right, or maybe he's just not very interested in cutting emissions. But I do know that if he's using the excuse that...

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PVL Logic?

2007-11-15T15:56:00.000-06:00

Does this make any sense?The federal government sent Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty a scathing letter Tuesday in defence of its plan to add 22 seats to the House of Commons. ... In one final dig...

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Mulroney Now Tangling with Harper?

2007-11-12T22:13:00.000-06:00

Top news tonight is that Brian Mulroney is now calling for a full independent inquiry into his dealings with Karlheinz Schreiber and Air Bus. This is far and away more than Stephen Harper has said...

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What Goes Around Comes Around

2007-11-09T16:54:00.001-06:00

I know most Conservative supporters won't be able to resist their most basic human emotion to decry the "Liberal/liberal/socialist/anti-Conservative media" that this headline they'll claim...

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Bernier Contradicts New Death Penalty Position

2007-11-02T14:03:00.000-05:00

Le ministre des Affaires étrangères assure que le Canada n'a pas de nouvelle politique pour ne plus intervenir lorsqu'un Canadien va être exécuté aux États-Unis. Le ministre Maxime Bernier contredit...

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Canada's Back... to 1962!

2007-11-01T21:26:00.000-05:00

The Canadian Government will no longer protest the death penalty for Canadians in countries it considers are democratic that support the rule of law. Hmmm, I wonder what kind of confusion those...

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Better to be Feared than Loved?

2007-10-31T22:14:00.000-05:00

Senate schmenate, if these practices are considered reasonable by Stephen Harper and Conservative Party headquarters it's very disconcerting. Bring on the by-elections already. Well-spoken,...

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Stephen Harper, So Brave

2007-10-23T19:06:00.000-05:00

All federal parties denounce Quebec immigration bill except Tories -The Canadian Press 2 hours later... All federal parties denounce Quebec immigration bill -The Canadian Press *** Federal...

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If You Weren't Sure Ezra Levant Was a Bozo...

2007-10-18T21:42:00.000-05:00

I've always just ignored Ezra Levant so I didn't have to deal with him, but I caught a panel on Paula Todd today, and boy, the guy really is nuts. He claimed that immigrants are trying to bring...

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Endureth

2007-10-17T22:02:00.000-05:00

I really wish that Dion could have brought the government down right away but it probably just wasn't possible. It seems like a large majority of the caucus was for making parliament work, and while...

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More Ivison Nonsense

2007-10-04T16:51:00.000-05:00

John Ivison the other day:The Liberals hope that shifting Mr. Carroll to a new position and implementing a mini-shuffle of the shadow Cabinet will mean the worst is over for leader Stephane Dion, who...

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We're Still Coca-Cola Classic Somehow

2007-10-03T20:35:00.000-05:00

Con 33 (+1) Lib 31 (+2) NDP 16 (-1) This poll was a little bit reassuring. Of course I wouldn't rule out another polling company coming out tommorow and saying that we're down 10 points. ...

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Big Booboo at CTV Homepage

2007-10-02T17:28:00.000-05:00

Bias! Bias! Pierre-Luc Bellerose is not a Quebec Liberal MP for the riding of Joliette. Hell, as far as I can tell a Liberal hasn't really represented this area since Lester Pearson was Prime...

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Gerard Kennedy in Ukraine?

2007-09-28T13:22:00.000-05:00

I had no idea he was even over there. Pretty surprising news. Kennedy said the police tried to hinder the observers from ensuring that the process was fair leading up to Sunday's parliamentary...

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Quebec Wasteland

2007-09-27T21:36:00.000-05:00

I still don't even know what to say. Other than Stéphane Dion, Michael Ignatieff, Bob Rae, Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin and whoever the hell else have got to get their arms around this thing somehow,...

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