… but the good people of Surrey–Panorama Ridge have decided to say thanks, but no thanks to Gordon Campbell’s New Era.It wasn’t just that they threw the Liberals out. It was a rout; the Liberals got nearly exactly the same result the NDP did in 2001 – an election that practically annihilated us Dippers province-wide.Campbell’s strategy of handing the Liberal Party over to the religious right may… Read more...

Ladies and gentlemen south of the border, try, just try to rouse yourself to head to a polling station after this clarion call from actor Wallace Shawn:

“So, you know, for me it’s humiliating to vote for Kerry, because I don’t respect him; but I would — I will — it’s unpleasant, it’s like killing a big rat that is running around your apartment. It must be done. But… Read more...

As a Canadian blogger, I hate to be drawn into the American Ann Coulter quagmire. She’s clearly a few verses short of a sonnet (this metaphor brought to you by Random Acts of Poetry Week), and God knows enough other progressives get themselves into a lather over whatever asinine comment she’s made this week.But now she’s calling an incident last week where two doofi (doofi: noun, plural; see… Read more...

Oh, how sharper than a serpent’s tooth is the ungratefulness of a lowly employee?The Chicago Sun-Times has reprinted an exchange between Conrad Black and Roger Ebert. The gist of it is unremarkable: Ebert tells his publisher he’ll join his fellow Guild members on the picket line if a strike is called; Black accuses him of ingratitude; Ebert returns fire.Mundane enough. But readers can take delight in Ebert’s systematic… Read more...

…along comes one of these incidents:”[NDP MPP Marilyn] Churley was heckling Health Minister George Smitherman during question period and was asked by Speaker Alvin Curling to settle down when Qaadri yelled out, ‘OK, the hot flash is over.’Churley immediately stood up and demanded an apology.Qaadri, the member for Etobicoke North, addressed the Speaker and said, ‘Yes, Speaker, I believe you said, ‘I will give the member opportunity to… Read more...

Just got back from seeing Team America.Here’s the thing about movies when you have a young child: you don’t go out to see one in the theatre unless you’re damn sure you’re going to like it. Because if you drop the money for a babysitter, movie tickets and – if you recently won a scratch-and-win lottery – popcorn, you’ve made a serious investment. And you want it to pay… Read more...

Errol Morris, the film-maker who gave us The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line and Fast, Cheap and Out of Control — and turned Ellen Feiss into an icon for people switching to Apple — has now posted a series of campaign ads for MoveOn.If you caught Ellen or any of the other switchers, you’ll recognize the style. Real people who voted for Bush… Read more...

If you’re following the U.S. election blogiverse, you probably already know this. For everyone else, here’s the skinny:The past week’s online buzz has been dominated, not by the latest focus-tested-to-death charges from the Kerry and Bush campaigns, but by Jon Stewart’s appearance on CNN’s Crossfire on October 15. Hugely worth watching.If you missed it, you can find the clip online (here’s one version in RealPlayer, an AVI