Below you will find Canada’s Top 25 Political Blogs for February. These are ranked according to a combination of influence and web traffic. You can read the specifics of that here.
NOTE: one thing I noticed while clicking through the blogs was that a lot of bloggers are talking about Free Speech and the Human Rights Tribunals. It seems largely split between left and right – with a few exceptions as always. The issue isn’t necessarily over abolishing the HRCs – though some do argue that – but over eliminating their ability to police speech by modifying or removing subsection 13 (1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act. Personally, I side with those who want to change the Act. To those who don’t think it’s necessary, I would strongly encourage you to read through the judgments of the HRT and the reasoning behind those judgements. You can find some of that reasoning excerpted below:
it is not necessary to prove that the effect of the communication will be that those who hear the messages will direct hatred or contempt against others. Nor is it necessary to show that, in fact, anyone was so victimized.
You can read more here. Enough of that then. Here are the rankings.
If there’s something I left out – please let me know in the comments section below.
Current Rank Site Google Page Rank Alexa Traffic Rank January Rank
- Mark Steyn | Google PR6 | Alexa 183458 | JR 2|
- Matthew Good | Google PR6 | Alexa 189211 | JR 1 |
- Paulitics | Google PR5 | Alexa 190966 | JR — |
- Small Dead Animals | Google PR5 | Alexa 215146 | JR3 |
- Galloping Beaver | Google PR5 | Alexa: 221053 | JR11 |
- Le Blogue du Quebec | Google PR5 | Alexa: 236293 | JR4 |
- Abandoned Stuff | Google PR5 | Alexa: 264311 | JR5 |
- Daimnation | Google PR5 | Alexa: 456907 | JR6 |
- Angry in the Great White North | Google PR5 | Alexa: 494835 | JR9 |
- Five Feet of Fury | Google PR5 | Alexa: 502887 | JR7 |
- Canadian Cynic | Google PR5 | Alexa: 539464 | JR8 |
- Vive le Canada | Google PR5 | Alexa: 599626 | JR12 |
- Gen X at 40 | Google PR5 | Alexa: 646245 | JR13 |
- Stephen Taylor | Google PR5 | Alexa: 727526 | JR14 |
- David Akin’s On the Hill | Google PR5 | Alexa: 738681 | JR15 |
- Le Revue Gauche | Google PR5 | Alexa 765204 | JR10 |
- Calgary Grit | Google PR5 | Alexa: 811277 | JR16 |
- Andrew Coyne | Google PR5 | Alexa: 913223 | JR17 |
- My Blahg | Google PR5 | Alexa: 1168303 | JR18 |
- Big City Lib | Google PR5 | Alexa: 1194585 | JR– |
- Jordon Cooper | Google PR5 | Alexa: 1297272 | JR– |
- Garth Turner Unedited | Google PR4 | Alexa: 514920 | JR19|
- Proud to be Canadian | Google PR4 | Alexa: 567210 | JR20 |
- Warren Kinsella Musings | Google PR4 | Alexa: 579330 | JR23 |
- Dawg’s Blog | Google PR4 | Alexa: 626247 | JR22 |
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Grok, way to prove my point. And Kate, I wasn’t talking about lefties. There are many Conservative writers with excellent insight who never get hits because they tend not to view Muslims as cockroaches.
A useful tool? Can you get more cryptic?
“….all of a sudden?”
*smokespit!*
you kill me, cräbs!
KEvron
“they tend not to view Muslims as cockroaches”
barnum would be so proud of our kkkate….
KEvron
Raphael,
let me see: the unsophisticated Reagan said in 1982 that Soviet Union can and will be defeated, the brilliant Trudeau in 1985 took his sons to Soviet Union to show them “the future”.
Care to provide any good reason for people to “do” those whom slavishly snobbish individuals call intellectuals?
As for the tool mystery: google “Lenin” and “useful idiots”.
Kate is such white trash.
Agnostic, she didn’t say useful idiot, she wrote useful tool. It’s almost ambiguously a compliment.
Less ambiguous is how she is about her amorous like of child rape redirects and holocaust jokes.
Enjoy!
KEvron: “…you kill me, cräbs!”
Thanks, Kevron. I was hoping that hadn’t gone undetected.
Interesting. Why is Ezra Levant one of your top “referrers” but his blog is not listed. Does it not qualify as a political blog? I, for one, don’t go a day without checking out the latest; the guy is a dynamo of blog action … and I stress the “action”. I would be quite surprised, given his sudden rise to YouTube stardom, if he doesn’t register favourably on Alexa relative to, say, Kinsella.
Ezra’s blog is really new and hasn’t got a Google PR yet. I checked in on it earlier in the week and a couple of the pages are showing up with PR’s. As soon as that happens he would join the list at something like 11th place.
Based on your traffic.gif, my guess was at least half correct. The key to insane levels of traffic (not to mention a higher rate of insanity, period) is to draw a large American studio audience. Some forms of politics seem to do that better than others, let’s just say.