That’s what David Suzuki had to say about the Ontario Liberal plan to keep Ontario’s economy on track by creating green jobs and helping our environment.http://www.thestar.com/mobile/news/canada/politics/article/1028008–suzuki-warns-tory-scheme-to-can…
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The Liberal Scarf: Ontario NDP vs. the environment
Hard hitting piece from the David Suzuki foundation on the NDP playing political games with the environment:http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/climate-blog/2011/07/the-ontario-ndp-platform-politics-trump-good-energy-policyagain/?fb_ref=top&fb_source=…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Follow the Eastern Region Policy Parliament online!
I’m liveblogging right now from the Eastern Region Policy Parliament, we’ve got dozens of great Young Liberals, great special guests and great policies.If you can’t make it, you can still follow along online:Like the Eastern Region Young Liberals on Fa…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak and his own caucus vs. your wallet
When Hudak MPP Garfield Dunlop isn’t too busy being contracdicted by his own party over handing tax payers the bill for eco fees (see: http://theliberalscarf.blogspot.com/2011/06/tim-hudak-vs-your-wallet-and-his-own.html), he’s handing taxpayers the bi…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak vs. your wallet (and his own caucus)
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/06/27/tories-eye-eco-tax-on-electronicsTim Hudak showed his recklessness with his flip-flops on the HST (Going from being in favour of it, to wanting to scrap it, to saying he would reduce it, to now keeping it), health c…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak vs. your wallet
Tim Hudak is feeling hungry. Can you spare him some of your hard earned tax dollars so he can grab a beer and some chicken nuggets?
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak vs. Full Day Kindergarten
Today, Ontario is announcing the last stage of the rollout of full day kindergarten. In a highly competitive, globalized, knowledge-based economy it is absolutely essential that Ontario invest in the younger generation to ensure that we build a powerfu…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak vs. video games (and jobs)
http://www.thestar.com/article/661781In honour of Anime North, which is sharing a convention centre with the PC’s this weekend, I thought I’d highlight an example of Ontario investment in creating jobs in the high tech sector, such as Ubisoft investing…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak vs. the safety of Ontario families
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/997721–walkom-chain-gangs-and-the-tories-search-for-scapegoatsWhile Liberals focus on creating jobs and growing the economy (The headline of the Windsor Star today read “Green energy wave powers job …
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak vs. Canadian teams
Not quite as serious as my previous postings.
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak vs. health care
Tim Hudak on health care, yesterday:”I know how important our health services truly are…healthcare will be our top funding priority”That’s interesting, but let’s take a look at what Mike Harris had to say about health care spending in 1995 before he …
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak vs. his own record
Tim Hudak once said he’d fight the HST “tooth and nail” after being accused of flip-floping on the long record of PC support for a harmonized tax system, and now he has done a double-flip flop, by saying he wouldn’t fight the HST at all, but would inst…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak vs. Randall Denley
Tim Hudak has pushed aside an active nomination to appoint Randall Denley as PC candidate in Ottawa West-Nepean.Tim Hudak is also hoping to push aside Denley’s criticism of Hudak and his reckless rookie scheming, but as you can see below, Hudak is less…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak vs. Ontario jobs, Eastern Ontario edition
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Hudak+urged+support+green+energy/4787642/story.htmlFrom Windsor to Ottawa, Ontario families & Ontario businesses are standing up to defend jobs created for families by private investment helped by the Ontario Lib…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak vs. jobs for Ontario families
Hudak has declared war green energy jobs for Ontario families, but Ontario is fighting back:
http://www.windsorstar.com/opinion/blogs/Green+energy+threat+makes+region/4783142/story.html
“[The PC Party] has declared war on this region with the insane …
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak vs. Frank Klees on green energy
With the Hudak attack on Ontario’s economy and jobs continuing today, one of Hudak’s most senior MPP’s demonstrated how little faith he really has in Hudak’s wreckless rookie scheming.http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/990868–tory-mpp…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Hudak attack on Green Energy Act would cost Ontario jobs
But don’t take my word for it. Windsor mayor Eddie Francis knows a thing or two about the challenges and opportunities faced by Ontario’s industrial sector over the last few years, and what does he say about the Hudak attack?”It would be hard to believ…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Riding hashtags – now with edits!
So I made up hashtags for every riding. With Twitter being abuzz, I think this it would be good to get some standardization when talking about individual ridings. Here’s my effort:NewfoundlandAvalon – #ava Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor – …
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Provincial nomination progress, NDP and Greens
Neither the ONDP or GPO have nominated a particularly large slate so far, so I combined them here.The NDP haven’t nominated a whole lot of candidates so far as I can tell, and they so far seemed to have focused on the GTA. I could only find one notice …
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