In case you missed it two more Blogging Tories members have moved to their own domain. The Phantom is settling down in his new digs at PhantomObserver.com while Greg can be found at PoliticalStaples.com

(Hmmm. There seems to have been some type of Blogger hiccup with a post I just put up about General Rick Hillier. Both the comment and post page links rendered a 404. Strange. So here it is again. Apologies to the visitor who left a comment.)

Not one to mince words General Rick Hillier is in [...]

Blogging Tories member Dust My Broom has some questions for George Stephenson of the Winnipeg Free Press.
That post got me thinking about an op-ed George penned last week in which he lashed out at conservative bloggers.
WITH the election of the new Conservative government, there is a legion of Internet pundits who, once they stop hyperventilating [...]

Well so much for that theory. I had thought for sure that when Frank McKenna resigned his post as ambassador to the US it was because he wanted to run for the Liberal leadership. But CTV News is reporting not so.

Canada’s outgoing ambassador to the United States, Frank McKenna, will not be running for the [...]

I’ve been observing a strange behaviour over the course of the last month or so with respect to pinging but never bothered to investigate the problem. Now I see that Blogging Tories member Jesse Gritter Online is reporting the same problem.
The only time I ever ping is when I post a new item. But for [...]

I’ve been involved in some great discussions over the results of the Palestinian election and listened to many valid points from all sides. Initially I stated that I did not recognize the validity of the new Hamas-dominated government but perhaps that was an incorrect choice of words. But before I get to that I want [...]

What goes through the mind of someone planning suicide? While browsing through my RSS feeds on tech news I came across a very disturbing story about an individual who not only took his own life but warned the world he would do so both on his blog and in a tech news forum.
Fellow Winnipegger Chris [...]

In response to Stephen Harper’s news conference yesterday, University of Toronto political scientist Nelson Wiseman warned the Conservatives against “picking” old fights with the Liberals.

“It wears off after a while… Piling on is a penalty in football and politics,” he said yesterday.
What a load of turkey feathers. Harper vowed to enact his Federal Accountability Act [...]

Yesterday Canada laid to rest one of its own, another victim in the war on terror. Although he was in the middle of one of the world’s most dangerous spots he was not a soldier - he was a diplomat. And we was doing something he truly believed in.
Glyn Berry, 59 years of age, died [...]

Mojtaba Saminejad is an Iranian blogger. Mojtaba Saminejad is in an Iranian prison for blogging. Incarcerated since February 2005 the 25-year-old university student was arrested for what authorities called “insulting the Supreme Guide”. What was his crime? This is an excerpt from his blog,
Mojtaba SamieNejad, 25 year old blogger and student, was first arrested on [...]