The Equal Voice National Leadership Summit is going on in Ottawa today, and I’ll be providing live updates via Twitter if you want to follow along at www.twitter.com/WilliamNormanYou can also watch the live webcast at http://equalvoice.ca/
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The Liberal Scarf: Provincial nomination progress, PC edition
Click the link for full sized version: http://i53.tinypic.com/2r4h2tk.png The most colour-complex map, for start. The PC’s have nominated almost all of their caucus, with only Steve Clark of Leeds-Grenville, Jerry Ouellette of Oshawa, and leader Tim Hu…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: A look at provincial candidate nomination progress – Liberals
So on a whim, I decided to whip up some tracking maps of each party’s nomination progress, as far as I could tell. You’ll probably want to click on the maps for full size, and to tell the colour shades apart. I’ve decided to include Sarah Thompson’s ru…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: PC positions on health care are cartoonish
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/11214013/Little cartoon I made showing Tim Hudak’s misadventures and flip-flops on public health care. Remember, “everything is on the table”!
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: John Tory on the HST: "good economic and tax policy if we want to create jobs in the province of Ontario"
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/936390–tory-praises-mcguinty-s-courage-on-the-hst?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeedAnd this quote from McGuinty brings it home:“I’m absolutely convinced that the PCs in fact are supportive of the …
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tory in-fighting in Mississauga South, part I don’t even know anymore
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-bicker-in-key-toronto-area-ridings/article1897744/page1/Conservatives in my home riding of Mississauga South must really miss the days when they could just throw a Kennedy on the ballot and have the r…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Is weakness in the regions the real cause for NDP flip-flopping on the budget?
At this point, the NDP has had more than a few positions on supporting the Tory budget. While Liberals have been clear that hard working Canadian families deserve a hard working government that invests in the social services they need to put ground und…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Sold down the river without a paddle
Above: Rocco in more Liberal timesGotta love this quote from the Star on Rossi running for the PC’s:Here’s what both your old, and new friends are saying about you Rocco:Both Tory and Liberal insiders denounced Rossi as “an opportunist” — Tories…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Hudak slammed over his non-plan for Ontario Energy
From The Star:http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/926787–hudak-show-us-yoursProgressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak…claiming that provincial investments in green energy will actually cost jobs… this conclusion is based on a flawed …
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Nancy Branscombe, new PC candidate in London North Centre, has some interesting ideas about political integrity
Nancy Branscombe was nominated as Tim Hudak’s candidate in London North Centre last night, and while Tim Hudak says that she will “fight for the priorities of families”, given Nancy’s personal record of political games, she has her own priorities.Here’…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: No Plan
Kevin Page once again shows the truth: That the Harper Conservatives talk on the economy are all transparent politics.http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2011/01/20/budget-office-report.htmlPage’s office expected to find out how 10 departments that had repor…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right…ONDP joins PC’s in party civil wars
We’ve heard plenty about the ongoing failure of Tim Hudak’s leadership to keep a lid on party and factional leadership in his PC caucus (see: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Eastern+Ontario+feud+troubles+Tories/4028265/story.html, and http://toronto….
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