I won’t make a habit of this, I swear, but the parallels do go on and on. How can you possibly deny the appropriateness of these comparisons?
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A very different view from the West
You may be surprised with what some notable Western Canadians have been saying this week about the crisis in Ottawa
Will the West revolt?
With all this talk of a coalition in Ottawa, what’s a westerner to do?
It’s the flag debate
Old-timers have commented that the vitriolic climate in the House this week rivals the 1964 Flag Debate, in which Lester Pearson and John Diefenbaker slugged it out. Actually, this is turning into another sort of flag debate.
Irony-free headlines from the recent past
In honour of the current goings on in Ottawa, in which the Liberals and the NDP are planning to form a coalition government with the tacit approval of the Bloc Québécois, DMA humbly presents, without comment, a few choice headlines from the run up to the 2006 federal election–AKA, the last time Canada underwent a ‘national unity crisis.’
Wells: Why Dion was not a leader, in his own words
The 8:30 a.m. tactics meeting got too big. So he began a secret 7:30 meeting. Guess what?
Tough talk
There was a darkening in Stephen Harper’s rhetoric today. The line that popped in his speech to a rally in Winnipeg early this evening was this: “If you are worried about tough times then elect a government that can make tough decisions.”
Wells: Learning the art of politics
Dion held his own in the debates. Can he keep the momentum?
Morning memo: September 30 – Harper borrows a phrase, Dion channels his inner leader, and May is no pretender.
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Morning memo: September 29
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