Stephen Harper and The Re-Death of the Tories

Over the past couple of days it has become clear to me that Stephen Harper, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, will never be Prime Minister. This is not because the Conservative party lacks the support to win a minority or even a majority. Rather, it is because Stephen Harper himself has made a …

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 …

UK Goes to the Polls

It’s almost 19:00 in London… 3 hours until polls close and we start to see results from the election. It seems that the result is a foregone conclusion… the only interesting part will be how many seats Tony Blairs Labour party wins or loses. Another interesting tidbit that I heard on CBC-Radio this morning was …