Q: Where did you go? A: Blogathon!

So, I haven’t been dilligent with these posts of late, but I have a really good reason. I run another blog, one about UBC student politics and education issues named The Radical Beer Tribune, and my co-blogger and I are going to be participating in this year’s Blogathon, raising money for the Canadian Mental Health [...]

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The Wide World of Not-News

Apparently people are getting all wound up over whether or not Stephen Harper pocketed a piece of the Eucharist while at Romeo LeBlanc’s funeral. Now, I may not be the most religious guy, but I do go to church, and am probably one of the more religious amongst my group of friends (and Catholic to [...]

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We’re waiting, Dr. Swann…

Soon, we will be ‘celebrating’ Dr. David Swann’s seventh month as Liberal leader. As surprised as I was that he could win the race, and as dissapointed as I was that Dave Taylor wasn’t elected, I did hope for, if not expect, good things for the party under the new leader.
I haven’t seen to much [...]

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A Rose By Any Other Name…

I thought I would comment on the buzz throughout the tubes that the NDP will be looking to change its name at the upcoming national convention in Halifax.  The story goes that this is straight from the top of the party.  Party officials have so far admitted that their has been pressure from Ontario and [...]

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Friends, May, come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Elizabeth May is finally going to do something smart for her party and try to win a Green seat in the next federal election. This, I have to say, disappointed me, as the Green party is, in the current electoral system (one which, I should note, I voted against reforming in the recent BC referendum), [...]

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