Stephen Harper must be smiling.
I mean, deep down he probably wanted the gun registry kept.
It survived by the slimmest of votes, and for Harper it's good news.
Sure, he wants the registry to disappear, but it's better for him if it's an election issue.
He will pick up seats in rural areas because of this and those flip-flopping NDP'ers will not be forgiven by some voters.
Harper was successful in another way, too.
The Tories are particularly good at this.
It's called wedge politics, to divide and conquer
There are 75 ridings where the margin of victory was 10 per cent or less in the last election, and the registry issue will serve Harper well
It's an opportunity to win up to a dozen NDP and Liberal seats.
I'm happy the registry is still around. It's not perfect and it needs improvement, but when the police chiefs support it, when the Canadian Public Health Association and the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians support it, it's good enough for me.
Because in the city of Ecole Polytechnique, Concordia, and Dawson, it's personal.
Truth gets lost in the shuffle at Bastarache Commission
A lie gets to travel half way around the world before the truth has time to put on its pants.
Churchill said that, and at the Bastarache Commission, truth hasn't even got one pant leg on.
This has become personal and nasty.
A vendetta, this has nothing to do with the appointment of judges.
Liberal party fundraiser Franco Fava reminds me of Sergeant Schultz from that old sitcom Hogan's Heroes.
"I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing."
Fava is totally denying Marc Bellemare's claim that he pressured him to name three people to the judiciary.
And then there's the premier, again denying anything and everything.
It's hard to know who to believe.
The real victim in this charade will be truth.
And people's faith in our system
Because someone is lying to us, and that is the biggest insult of all.
Price is bound to succeed...somewhere else
You knew it was bound to happen, those idiotic bottom-feeders booing Carey Price at the Bell Centre on Wednesday night.
Price is in an impossible situation.
He's like Obama, with the expectations so high they are impossible to meet
One false step and the golden boy becomes the pariah.
The half-witted fans and the pundits are analyzing the entrails of his every move.
I wonder why we do that. I wonder why so many relish in seeing others fail.
The kid is 23. Give him a break. I'm sure he will one day be an NHL superstar.
But I'll bet the farm on it: It won't be here.
