There is a glimmer of very good news to be celebrated amongst Her Majesty’s official opposition. The Liberals had a very good quarter. It’s ironic since Ignatieff is almost dependent on the recession getting deeper if he intends to dethrone Stephen Harper. The Liberals managed to raise $3.9M this past quarter. That’s somewhere in the neighbourhood of four times what Stephane Dion was able to scrounge up. So that’s the good news. Read the rest of this entry »

Maybe that title is a touch misleading.  Micheal Ignatieff is flexing his fresh Liberal crown and threatening to topple the Tory government as early as June 12th.  The standoff between Iggy and Harper centres around the ballooning deficit and… uh… isotopes.  I wonder if isotopes have every caused so much grief for a PM.  I’m going to set the isotope issue on the shelf because I don’t think Canadians see that as a crisis, certainly not one worthy of an election.  Iggy’s other card is Read the rest of this entry »