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 …

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 …