(alternatively titled: “Reason number 457 to loathe and despise Peggy Nash”)
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The Toronto Star reports on the latest tit-for-tat between Stephen Harper and Jack Layton about who’s to blame for current and future gas price hikes:”Layton responded by saying gas prices are already too high and said Harper is to blame for some of it…
Continue readingQuotable
William Kaplan, in today’s Globe and Mail, on the media’s reaction to Stephen Harper’s limited campaign access, and restriction to only five questions per day:”The only astonishing thing is that the media are taking it. They are playing along, acceptin…
Continue readingDebate post script
For the second night in a row, I didn’t watch the Leaders’ debate (there was an all-candidates debate in York Centre tonight which featured an equally jarring Tory candidate, but that’s for another day).Radio-Canada’s coverage of the post-debate was re…
Continue readingAnd now, the French debate…
Tonight’s French language leaders debate will almost certainly attract a smaller audience than yesterday’s – language comprehension being one reason and hockey playoffs, another – but it is likely to be a more substantive affair than the English one.De…
Continue readingA grain of salt
Noteworthy in this Globe and Mail article describing the results of the latest Nanos Research daily tracking poll, is that in every single region, except the Prairies, every single lead or deficit between the Tories and Liberals is about half the size …
Continue readingLinks for junkies
In absence of generating any of my own content, here are a few links that I’m reading regularly as the federal election campaign unfolds. I thought I’d pass them along…CBC’s The National has a couple of excellent features. The “At Issue” panel is a m…
Continue readingStephen Harper, on responsibility
My communications staff limit questions, not me…The local campaigns set my events, not me…It’s our local candidates who hire discredited and fired employees, not me…The RCMP threw them out, not me…The staff barred her from entering, not me…Th…
Continue readingThe Canada Pension Plan
Everyone under the age of 60 should read this article. “Most of today’s retirees did not contribute enough when they were working to pay for the cost of the benefits that they are currently receiving. That deficit is being made up for by greater cont…
Continue readingOn the teevee (II)
Here’s the link to my first foray into Mississauga cable TV. Our panel on the federal election had no-shows from both the Greens and Tories, but host Ben Mercer and a handful of callers made it all run smoothly. You can watch it here.
Continue readingOn the teevee…
Given the ususal content found here, I realize that they’re probably aren’t a heck of a lot of regular visitors to this blog who watch Rogers Cable in Mississauga. But there are a few… and if you’re one of them – I’m a guest on tonight’s Ben Mercer L…
Continue readingElectoral financing reform
From the CBC’s website, my pal (and pretty smart guy) David Herle on Harper’s proposal to scrap the current public subsidization of political parties. “The government of the day should no more be able to set political financing rules that benefit its p…
Continue readingCampaign vandalism – a.k.a. "Douchebaggery"
I am reluctant to use words like “douchebag” in daily conversation. There are, and have been, a number of politicians for whom I have little regard, but for whom I reserve at least a small amount of respect. In the riding of Pierre Pollievre, however, …
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