Canada investigates sending Troops to Darfur

Looks like they could be there by September. The head of Canada’s military returned recently from meeting with leaders of the African Union peacekeeping force that Canadian units would support. Well it’s about time there was some action on this. Too bad it seems as though Canada is going in spite of rather than in …

Blair takes early huge lead in Election

Looks like Tony Blair is well on his way to victory. The BBC has an excellent website up showing live results as they come in across the UK (remember it’s the middle of the night there now!). It is still early, Labour still hasn’t quite reached the the magic number of 324 seats needed for …

Ed Broadbent to retire again

Not surprising really, but the CBC is reporting that Ed Broadbent will retire from politics and not run for re-election when a Federal Election is inevitably called in the next few weeks/months. It’s too bad because he is a class act and was a great NDP leader. He led the NDP to 43 seats in …