Author: Kyle H.

A couple days ago, the Conservatives held on to two of their seats in Yellowhead and Whitby-Oshawa by fairly strong margins (42.6% in Yellowhead and 8.5% in Whitby-Oshawa). At least to me, this was not unexpected; Yellowhead did not feature the hullabaloo that Brandon-Souris or Fort McMurray did, so the

Today is election day across Ontario’s thousands of local municipalities, ranging from the big ones in Toronto and Mississauga, to itty bitty races where specific people need to be beaten back by large margins. Turnout in these elections are hilariously low usually, despite municipalities being the closest level of government

I just got off the phone with my grandfather, a staunch Conservative for his entire life, but an extremely intelligent and reasonable man who knows a good or bad thing when he sees it. The conversation went, paraphrased, as such: “Your leader is a disgrace.”“Why?”“For the ‘whipping them out’ joke-““I

So there is some chatter going around that New Brunswick was yet another flop for pollsters in Canada, and in particular Forum Research, who released the final poll in the race that also happened to show a 40-40 tie between the two main parties (Libs and PCs) in the popular

So that was fun, wasn’t it? I don’t know how many people stayed up last night to watch the New Brunswick election results come in, then wait around two hours for them to actually update after a huge flub from Elections NB, but all I know for sure is that

Uh-oh. The last couple of weeks have seen a dramatic tightening of the race in the province of New Brunswick between the governing Progressives Conservatives, led by Premier David Alward (Carleton), and the opposition Liberals, led by Brian Gallant (Shediac Bay-Dieppe). So dramatic, in fact, that the race went from

Its now made the news: Liberal riding association executives have resigned in protest over what they considered unfair standards in that ridings nomination race, which didn’t end up being much of a race because there was only one candidate, Danielle Takacs. Well, this is a doozy, and its something we’ve

The above is a very interesting, if alarming, video by a YouTuber named CGPGrey, who I’ve subscribed to for a while now and I suggest you do to if you’ve got an interest in random, well-researched videos on various topics. The video, entitled “Humans Need Not Apply,” is CGPGrey’s longest

The headlines today are quite amusing: Liberal fundraising slides to ‘scary’ numbers, says party official – MSN.ca‘Scary’ Fundraising Numbers Show Stall In Trudeau’s Momentum – HuffPoLiberal fundraising momentum stalls – Toronto Insider These are just small outfits too, I can’t wait until the big three editorials – Globe, NatPost, and

Oh, this is brilliant: Long-time Progressive Conservative MLA Bev Harrison invoked the memory of former British prime minister Winston Churchill as he confirmed on Friday that he will run for the NDP in the next provincial election. Harrison appeared with NDP Leader Dominic Cardy at a news conference on Friday to

I’ve been relaxing this summer, so my activity on the blog has been a bit low, but I was asked to help out with an endorsement of a great candidate, a former blogger who is taking the big leap into federal politics – and I’m more than happy to do

While I’m pretty sure anyone who reads this blog regularly is quite aware of the last night’s results, I think it might take a while to sink in just how awesome it was. Absolutely, 100% aweseome. I’ve never been more excited about an election in my lifetime, and even my

I’ll try not to make this post a long one, but there are a few things to go over before we get into the meat of the projection. First off, its no secret that the entire month and a half of polling has been fairly erratic. While there were no

If you’ve been following the Ontario election – and lets be honest, why would you? – it seems like the pollsters, each in their own way, are starting to converge. And the thing they’re all saying is that Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals are well set to probably win the election, or

Yeah, its time to comment on this, unfortunately. I have held back (mostly) from commenting on the “nuanced” decision by Justin Trudeau to tell all future Liberal Party MPs that, no matter what their stance on abortion, they must vote along pro-choice lines in the House of Commons – the

So, in the interest of my unusual hobby of looking at/projecting/stalking elections, I looked hard online for a full transposition of the 2013 redistribution of New Brunswick’s provincial electoral districts, which dropped from 55 seats to 49 seats. The short of it is that Elections NB, while providing tonnes of

So the federal New Democrats, currently facing a series of accusations that they out-and-out lied about their caucus satellite office and looking for a way to change the channel, are apparently going to drag the abortion debate back into the House of Commons in a pretty blatant attempt to smear

While the provincial election has gotten off to a slow start so far, what with the promised “big issues” campaign so far focusing on itty bitty quibbles like this libel lawsuit between Wynne and Hudak, Horwath’s $12/hour minimum wage, and pretty much nothing else, the political landscape has started to

After years of watching from the sidelines as a whole host of other provinces and countries got to have their elections, finally the day has come – the province of Ontario is going to the polls on June 12th! We all knew the Ontario Liberal government elected in 2011 has

You remember when it was us languishing in third place? Now its Hudak’s turn (and not just in the approval rankings). Yes, its just one poll and its within the margin of error and yatta yatta – as BCL put it, that’s boring. Let us take this EKOS poll at