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 …

Live Blogging BC Leaders Debate 2005

Just getting started here. GC = Gordon Campbell (Liberal) AC = Adrian Carr (Green) CJ = Carol James (NDP) I’ll focus mainly on the non-scripted debate. The answers to the questions by reporters will be, I assume… party line. click On the Economy: Scripted question to MR CAMPBELL on why everyone has Not benefited from …