Writing in the NYT, David Frum argues one reason the sponsorship scandal happened is because the Liberal Party's historical role as a brokerage party is coming to an end.

(Ding! Ding! Ding! This is also my 1,000th post to this blog!)

If PM PM wants to keep his job, he needs to turn the sponsorship scandal to his advantage, says the Toronto Star's James Travers, who goes on to explain how.

From the Toronto Star, some grousing about the current construction activity in Little Italy.

Flowers have pushed up from under the soil and blossomed for more than a week now. There's splashes of colour livening up the cityscape!

And today, I noticed leaves are starting to unfurl from their buds.

The stories of the day for Monday clearly had to be Warren Kinsella's testimony before the Commons public accounts committee and the spat over opposition days.