I decided against blogging last week about the new Ontario cabinet in part because it wasn’t very exciting news – no defectors à la Belinda to give the Libs a majority, no new names in cabinet – and also because three (posts), as they say, is the magic number. Had I written the aforementioned would-be post, [...]
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I whipped off a reply today to Susan Delacourt’s blog post questioning whether the Liberal Party of Canada is dead. Coincidentally, I’m doing the Klout thing again – unconvinced it means anything but mindful that people check such scores – and lo and behold, I’m still a “specialist” in politics. I think this is Klout’s [...]
Oct 20, 2011 | Categories: Canadian Politics | Tags: Apps, Bob Rae, Chretien, conservative, dead party, Diefenbaker, Dippers, Harper, Ignatieff, journalism, Klout, liberal, Liberal Party, LPC, majority government, Martin, Mulcair, NDP, political journalism, politics, Rossi, Sheila Copps, social democrat, Susan Delacourt, Topp | 1 Comment »