Diane Francis? You gotta be kidding

I have to admit here and now that I'm not really a blog person, I'm a discussion board person. Blogs seem to me to be too sterile; I like the give and take of a large like-minded (and sometimes opposing) population of discussion group members. If it weren't for the fact that I'm a member, again I have to admit that I probably wouldn't otherwise bother to read Points of Information regularly, and I don't really follow too many of the Canadian politics blogs. Warren Kinsella, who seems to be one of the favorites, bores me with his smart-alecky nyahnyah insiderishness. And this type of irritating pretentiousness seems to be typical of the rather conservative Canadian political blogosphere.

So in addition to some of the sites that the Member from Mustafa Hirji has suggested, I would like to add what is far and away my favorite Canadian political discussion board, babble. It's extremely active, and yes, it's unashamedly ideological, which to me is only honest--but it has a smattering of dissenting voices to give it a good spice. And I think it's about ten times more fun and interesting than any of the popular Canadian blogs out there--and it retains good replay value even without elections!

But as for election blog suggestions, I have to add Andrew Spicer's blog and Tilting at Windmills. I think I've seen some others, but since I don't check them regularly, I've forgotten them. I probably won't check those two very often either.