In Fact, Project Claudia Will Drive Some Trade Back Into The Streets What the hell was that all about? It's a question you might have asked yourself after police Chief Mark Saunders' news conference Friday, which was hijacked by a couple of activists whose persistent questioning and arguing left virtually no room for Saunders to answer, for minutes on end. The journalists in attendance were left to stand around waiting for a chance to get actual information, and the chief was left standing as the event drifted along, to seemingly no purpose. [continues 955 words]
Those looking to shoot darts at Belinda Stronach's fledgling campaign for the leadership of the federal Conservatives found themselves armed straight off with a good deal of ammunition: she was a failure in university and twice a failure in marriage who doesn't speak French and who's never accomplished anything more significant in her 37 years than not screwing up a figurehead nepotism appointment and she had never, prior to last week, spoken publicly about any issue of political substance. [continues 830 words]