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Much of the brouhaha can be traced back to two blog posts, both of which make our top five this week – "Trusty Tory" and Steve "Angry" Janke. Trusty Tory is a rather quiet anonymous fella/gal who exudes partisan credentials to his/her loyal readership. I tell my friends it's Mulroney's blog, others suspect it's Conrad Black….but I digress. "Angry" Steve J. has proven to be one of the most effective partisan bloggers over the course of the campaign – this man should be in the Tory caucus research department.

Anyhow, the debate is a rather long-winded and confusing one. But here it is: In Steve Janke's original post "Stephane Dion went to climate conference just to read someone else's report", he stated: "In **2006**, as Minister of the Environment, Stephane Dion opened a climate conference focused on the Arctic." (emphasis added). The U.N. climate change conference held that year was in Nairobi, leading us to assume that this formed the basis for Janke's concern about "...how much carbon he emitted into the atmosphere to get to the conference..."

Some time after this original post Janke changed his blog to indicate that the date of the conference was 2005, when the conference was held in Montreal. Janke does not make note of the change on his blog but told Ormiston Online that the date change was an effort to correct a "typo". Enter Kady O'Malley. She takes up Janke's posting and digs a little deeper with her post: Seriously, y'all. Attributions. Use them.

O'Malley's contribution to the plagiarism blame-game comes in at number 4 – well worth a read (as is James Curran who has taken up the Liberal counter-attack across the blogosphere, including on the Ormiston Online page).

Andrew Coyne seems to own the number five spot for some reason. This week the "At-Issue" mainstay and editor of Macleans magazine offers up a critique of the opposition leaders recent comments on the economy: "It isn't that they're fear-mongers: it's that, having mongered such fears, they do not propose to do anything about them."