.. Re iPolitics.ca's coverage of the Prime Minister's visit to flooded areas of Manitoba, Myra Barss asks: Did Mr. Sunshine walk on water while viewing the floods?...

16 May, 2011

Thursday's "morning brief" from iPolitics.ca led with a puff piece about a Prime Minister Harper's visit to flooded areas of Manitoba. I'm sure there were stupider things written in Canadian journalism this week, I just cant think of any offhand: Mr. Sunshine brings better weather to soggy Prairies Just call him Mr. Sunshine. Stephen Harper came, saw and left behind some improving weather for the drenched people of Manitoba. The prime minister toured flooded areas to the west of Winnipeg yesterday, promising federal help to build better infrastructure for future floods. And while his trip was short on...

14 May, 2011

The unprecedented rise in support for the NDP is provoking a lot of reaction from various thoughtful observers. Here's a compendium. From Frank Graves of Ekos Research, author of yesterday's dramatic poll putting the NDP in second place nationally with a projected 100 seats, in a live chat this morning at ipolitics.ca: Nothing is absolutely ruled out. But I think the public is answering Mr. Harper's request for a majority with a pretty clear "No." The intricacies of vote splitting might confuse this as late campaign shifts, but at slightly under 34 points, the Conservatives are well short of a majority. In...

26 April, 2011