2007 IN REVIEW
Winners of the Year: Stephen Harper, Dalton McGuinty, Brad Wall, Mario Dumont,the NDP
Losers of the Year: Stephane Dion, John Tory, Andre Boisclair, the BQ
Best Political Show Host: Peter Mansbridge for "At Issue"
Worst Political Show Host: Jane Taber
Best Political Columnist: Chantal Hebert, Sheila Copps, Greg Weston
Best Political Blog: Calgary Grit- It's not only the lack of competition.Well written, a sense of humour and never hysterically partisan.
Most Effective Blogger: Stephen Taylor. A thorn in the side for the CBC.
Best New Blog: Blue Lemons-I especially liked the daily summaries of the political shows.
Political Fan-Dancer: The Liberals. Do they want to bring down the government or not?
Most Over-Hyped Story: Global warming, Mulroney/Schrieber.
Most Under-Reported News Story: How Canadian casualities in Afghanistan are related to Liberals not arming our troops properly.
Best Political Pundit: Joy McPhail, Goldy Hyder.
Worst Political Pundit: Gerard Kennedy. His personality shows why he'll never be Liberal leader.
Best Political Journalist/Commentator: Don Martin, Bob Fife, John Ivision
Worst Political Journalist/Commentator: Susan Delacourt
Best Hair: Rahim Jaffer
Worst Hair: Mark Holland, still. Eraserhead, as Kinsella said.
Best Cabinet Minister: Jim Prentice
Best Oppostion Voices: Ralph Goodale, Michael Ignatieff
Most Powerful Religious Group: Sikhs
Most Powerless Religious Group: Evangelicals
Fading Ethnic Power-broker: Denis Coderre
Rising Ethnic Power-broker: The NDP.
Reap-As-You Sow Award: Harper befriending Mulroney and then suffering guilt by association.
Good Riddence Award: The retiring Liberal MPs.
Tough Luck Award: Mario Dumont, who won big without a caucus to go with the prize.
Courtney Love Award: Ernie Fage, bounced from the Nova Scotai goverment for leaving the scene of an accident.
Canadian Heroes of the Year: Our soldiers in Afghanistan, still
Canadian Zeroes of the Year: Liberals, for keeping themselves out of an election.
Please Go Away: Irene Mathyssen
We Miss You: Preston Manning, Frank McKenna
Political Comeback: Conservatives in Quebec.
Political Bomb: That Liberal guy who lost Outremont.