Canada’s Top 25 Political Blogs - January

Below you will find Canada’s Top 25 Political Blogs for January. These are ranked according to a combination of influence and web traffic. You can read the specifics of that here.

Before the listings, three things:

Single Issue Blogs. I’m getting bugged about single political issue blogs. I don’t think I should include them. I understand that blogs like Michael Geist’s are important and relevant and far better than one or two of the blogs on the list, but I still don’t think they fully meet the criteria of a “political” blog. For the record: If Mr. Geist’s blog were listed here, he would come in at number 2 with a PR of 6 and an Alexa rank of 205250.

Second - new BC Blogroll. If any of you are in BC and are Liberal or Tory bloggers, please let me know in the comments section of this post if you would like to be included on the BC Young Liberals Blog Aggregator. I’m in the process of finishing it up - but you can view it here: youngbloggers.ca .

Lastly, please do try and take some time to read Andy Olmsted’s final blog post if you haven’t already. If you don’t know, Mr. Olmsted was killed in Iraq 2 weeks ago. He wrote a humbling post to be published if he were killed:

Believe it or not, one of the things I will miss most is not being able to blog any longer. The ability to put my thoughts on (virtual) paper and put them where people can read and respond to them has been marvelous, even if most people who have read my writings haven’t agreed with them. If there is any hope for the long term success of democracy, it will be if people agree to listen to and try to understand their political opponents rather than simply seeking to crush them. While the blogosphere has its share of partisans, there are some awfully smart people making excellent arguments out there as well, and I know I have learned quite a bit since I began blogging.

Here are the rankings. If there’s something I left out - please let me know in the comments section.

Current Rank Site Google Page Rank Alexa Traffic Rank December Rank

1. Matthew Good | Google PR6 | Alexa 171766 | DR 1 |
2. Mark Steyn | Google PR6 | Alexa 196433 | DR 2|
3. Small Dead Animals | Google PR5 | Alexa 188865 | DR3 |
4. Le Blogue du Quebec | Google PR5 | Alexa: 205426 | DR4 |
5. Abandoned Stuff | Google PR5 | Alexa: 254405 | DR5 |
6. Daimnation | Google PR5 | Alexa: 447471| DR8 |
7. Five Feet of Fury | Google PR5 | 463763 | DR6 |
8. Canadian Cynic | Google PR5 | Alexa: 512692 | DR7 |
9. Angry in the Great White North | Google PR5 | Alexa: 514025 | DR9 |
10. Le Revue Gauche | Google PR5 | Alexa 572686 | DR11 |
11. Galloping Beaver | Google PR5 | Alexa: 614075 | DR12 |
12. Vive le Canada | Google PR5 | Alexa: 617874 | DR10 |
13. Gen X at 40 | Google PR5 | Alexa: 726901 | DR14 |
14. Stephen Taylor | Google PR5 | Alexa: 734954 | DR16 |
15. David Akin’s On the Hill | Google PR5 | Alexa: 763865 | DR17 |
16. Calgary Grit | Google PR5 | Alexa: 799536 | DR19 |
17. Andrew Coyne | Google PR5 | Alexa: 806708 | DR13 |
18. My Blahg | Google PR5 | Alexa: 875908 | DR20 |
19. Garth Turner Unedited | Google PR4 | Alexa: 449926 | DR21|
20. Proud to be Canadian | Google PR4 | Alexa: 505580 | DR23 |
21. Ken Chapman | Google PR4 | Alexa: 519079 | DR22 |
22. Dr. Dawg | Google PR4 | Alexa: 604062 | DR– |
23. Warren Kinsella Musings | Google PR4 | Alexa: 634795 | DR24 |
24. Dust My Broom | Google PR4 | Alexa: 714263 | DR25 |
25. April Reign | Google PR4 | Alexa: 856096 | DR– |

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