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Canada Day in Ottawa

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 Blogging | No Comments »

Yesterday, July 1st, saw Canada celebrate its 141st birthday. The biggest celebrations, of course, occurred in the federal capital and I was thrilled by the opportunity to experience this day ... Read more..

Campaigning in Toronto Centre

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Blogging | No Comments »

Federal by-elections in Canada were closely watched by both parties, as they were occurring in Liberal-held ridings and were a direct test of Stephane Dion's leadership of the Liberal Party ... Read more..

Canada Networking ‘08

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 Blogging | 1 Comment »

The Manning Centre for Building Democracy organised a brilliant conservative networking event in Ottawa during the last weekend of February. The first Canada Networking Conference & Exhibition brought together close ... Read more..

Une Vue Depuis Le Mont-Royal: Montreal student seminar

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Blogging, Event Reviews | No Comments »

An excellent day-long free event hosted by the Fraser Institute for students and academics, held in the beautiful surroundings of the Hilton Bonaventure hotel with world-class speakers. Topics included anti-capitalism ... Read more..

Watching from the CN Tower: Toronto Liberty Seminar

Monday, January 21st, 2008 Blogging, Event Reviews | 2 Comments »

The Institute of Liberal Studies hosted a libertarian-oriented day of presentations at the University of Toronto last Saturday. The topic of "Free-Market Environmentalism" couldn't be chosen at a better time, ... Read more..

Une Vue Depuis le Mont-Royal: Who’s scared of the foreigner?

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Uncategorized | No Comments »

It's Halloween and someone might be tempted to tell you a popular scary story these days. Into your perfect world or sunshine and roses came one day a dark and ... Read more..

Une Vue Depuis le Mont-Royal - Cameron’s six words proved true

Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Uncategorized | No Comments »

Be it a thousand words to define Britishness or a new electoral system, "stop wasting money on pointless gimmicks"! The Liberal government of Ontario bothered the whole province with a citizen's ... Read more..

A view from the Mount

Thursday, October 4th, 2007 Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

One quick point before posts reviewing the Party Conference deservedly take the top spot on the website. From the news one gets across the pond it seems that there is ... Read more..

A View from the Mount

Friday, September 21st, 2007 Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Veiled women, immigrant integration, multiculturalism: the list of issues to be discussed by a Quebec commission on reasonable accommodation is long and covers a lot of hot topics. Roughly the ... Read more..

Cameron’s Press Conference

Monday, May 21st, 2007 Uncategorized | No Comments »

This morning David Cameron hosted a brief press conference at the St Stephen's Club. His statement focused on the Labour handover timeline and the following points were emphasised: - The current ... Read more..

CF Action Day in Tooting

Sunday, May 20th, 2007 Campaigning, Event Reviews | 1 Comment »

Conservative Future brought out 70 people to the streets of Tooting yesterday, delivering leaflets in various wards. The day was a roaring success, with thousands of envelopes going through voters' ... Read more..

What a Stumble !

Saturday, May 12th, 2007 Uncategorized | No Comments »

The choice of Zimbabwe to lead the UN Council on Sustainable Development is a discouraging setback for the organisation and the cause of sustainable development itself. Such an ambitious cause ... Read more..

A Welcome Hold

Sunday, May 6th, 2007 Uncategorized | No Comments »

The victory of Nicolas Sarkozy in France is yet another bit of welcome news to celebrate this Bank Holiday Monday. It is the proof that, even after 12 years in ... Read more..

Blitz-Campaign

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007 Event Reviews, May 07 Elections | No Comments »

A great Tory 10-people strong campaign team descended today on King's Cross station led by yours truly and comprising various activists from over London. We distributed free leaflets that looked ... Read more..

Calling all Conservatives!

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 Uncategorized | No Comments »

Polling day is tomorrow and those are the key hours when the swing vote can be won. It is essential that we all contribute if we are able to. I ... Read more..

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