2006 IN REVIEW

Winners of the Year: Stephen Harper, Stephane Dion
Losers of the Year: Paul Martin and his team, Michael Ignatieff, Jim Dinning, Bob Rae
Best Political Show Host: Don Newman
Worst Political Show Host: Jane Taber
Best Political Columnist: Andrew Coyne, Paul Wells, Chantal Hebert
Best Political Blog: Calgary Grit- an amazing amount of work, readable, humourous and a minimum of cult-member mentality.
Most Effective Blogger: Stephen Taylor. He embarrassed the CBC into an on air apology and embarassed the Liberals into dropping the $20,000 fine against Joe Volpe.
Most Effective Runner-Up: TDH Strategies and the role he played in cleaning up Liberal student clubs.
Best New Blog: nbpolitico, a Calgary Grit from down east.
Political Fan-Dancer: Frank McKenna and his constant will-he-run routine.
Most Over-Hyped Story: Same-sex marriage. Three years in, less than one per cent of the gay community have had wedding ceremonies. Neither an important human rights issue or a threat to marriage.
Most Under-Reported News Story: Bill Grahams sex life. More dirt than Mark Foley.
Best Political Pundit: Tim Powers
Worst Political Pundit: Scott Reid
Best Political Journalist/Commentator: Don Martin, Rex Murphy, Bob Fife
Worst Political Journalist/Commentator: Everyone at the CBC other than Rex.
Best Hair: Gerard Kennedy, freshly coiffed for the Liberal convention.
Worst Hair: Mark Holland and brunette Belinda.
Best Cabinet Minister: Jim Prentice
Best Oppostion Voices: Mark Holland, Libby Davies
Most Powerful Religious Group: Jewish Canadians
Most Powerless Religious Group: Liberal Catholics.
Fading Ethnic Power-broker: Joe Volpe
Rising Ethnic Power-broker: Navdeep Bains
Reap-As-You Sow Award: To all the Liberals who loved to bash America and then backed Ignatieff, only to find him to be considered "too American"
Good Riddence Award: Svend Robinson
Tough Luck Award: Bernard Lord, who won the popular vote and lost the election in New Brunswick.
Courtney Love Award: Ontario Liberal MPP George Smitherman and his party drug addiction.
Canadian Heroes of the Year: Our soldiers in Afghanistan
Canadian Zeroes of the Year: Israel/Jew bashers in the Liberal party
Please Go Away: Justin Trudeau, Scott Brison
We Miss You: Deborah Grey, Ed Broadbent
Political Comeback: Michael Wilson as ambassador to the US.
Political Bomb: Marc Garneau as star candidate