I get the sinking feeling that the National Executive may not be 100% behind the recently-created Supporters category, for which you can see me ranting about here. For many long, slow months we’ve heard nothing much about Supporters. Granted my connectivity into the scene isn’t at its most connected right
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Blunt Objects: Warren Kinsella – You Get What You Pay For
And given that I’m unfortunately forced to have Sun TV on my cable box, I feel more like he and his lot should be paying me. But, this is besides the point – I just wanted to mention that it royally pisses me off. But so does Warren Kinsella today,
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Redistribution 2012: Western Canada
So as I said in the post before, I’ve managed to get my hands on the transposed results of the 2011 election into the new federal boundaries, which gave us a Conservative majority government of 191, versus 111 for the NDP, and 32 for the Liberals, plus the Bloc and
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Later Today: Complete Transposition of Federal Ridings
That’s right, I’ve got all 338 ridings transposed and laid out accurate as I can make it, using my fantastic sources. If you want to see all the transposed ridings, you can visit the official Redistribution Commission page. They’re all done, but none have transpositions done yet. For a preview,
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Call to Quebeckers
I know some things about Quebec’s political parties, and some more things about the Quebec Liberals… but I’m not that attuned to it. And I’m very interested in watching the upcoming PLQ leadership race, because I feel it’ll be fairly important given that we have a PQ minority and another
Continue readingBlunt Objects: "Northern Gateway Could Destroy This Country"
What the heck is this post from BigCityLib? In summary, BCL is saying that the next Liberal leader should oppose the Northern Gateway pipeline because most British Columbians oppose it. Fair enough, I disagree with that but that statement makes total sense. No slippery slope there. Then he goes on
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Kitchener-Waterloo and Vaughan – An Update
Never to be outdone by Quebec, Ontario politics have been gearing up for a showdown of rather epic proportions today: by-elections in Kitchener-Waterloo and Vaughan. In these two ridings hangs the future of the Ontario Liberals and the current McGuinty government, as well as that of the Ontario PCs as
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Horton Hears A LiberalWho
And sadly it turned out to be a troll (no I don’t mean Rick Mercer, thats just where the site redirects now), or a sadly-set up site from either the Liberal campaign – based on it apparently redirecting to the Liberal.ca/Supporters page before it switched to Mercer – who panicked
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Final Projections for Quebec 2012
I’ll be trying to keep this post short, but that time is here: the final projected results, based on polling and momentum and gut-feelings, that I will present for the biggest election since May 2011 – and sadly, like that election, the result isn’t a great one. As I said,
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Ontario Liberals Doing Harper-Like Campaign Tactics? Good on them.
Two Liberal bloggers – Scott Tribe and local Kitchener-Waterloo blogger Darcy Casselman, who I’ve read once or twice but don’t have the greatest familiarity with – have come out saying that the Ontario Liberal campaign in Kitchener-Waterloo, and candidate Eric Davis, are not holding themselves up to what we’d call
Continue readingBlunt Objects: 2012 Redistribution – Toronto
Finally, the new proposed boundaries for Ontario are out, and this commission has changed so much, yet so little at the same time. But here they are now, and first up that I’ll be looking at will be the City of Toronto proper, which has gone from 23 ridings (22
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Léger Marketing Shows CAQ Boost, Péquistes First
In opposition to the recent Forum poll, Léger Marketing has come out with a new poll that shows the Parti libéral in third for the first time during this campaign – though they’ve certainly been third in Léger polling before. I don’t want to go too deep into a campaign
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Liberalwho.ca – Candidate’s website or something else?
If you haven’t seen this quirky site yet, then go take a look – its just some standard-fare messages and a silhouette of some guy standing with his arms crossed and a background of Liberal L’s. The minor media has gotten something of a buzz over it, and the WHOIS
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Nanos and Forum Ontario Polls
Two new polls have come out for Ontario’s provincial scene, which has been getting slightly rocky as of late given the issues over teachers unions, doctors, scandals, and by-elections. Let’s delve right into the one that I’m sure people are going to laugh at, Nanos: Nanos Research (Ontario – Aug
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Quebec’s Election So Far
So, it’s been awhile, a couple of weeks actually, since I’ve paid attention to the race in Quebec or this blog in particular, mostly due to work and preparations for an upcoming college term. However, my co-blogger Teddy has done a couple of good filler posts for which I’m grateful,
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Can Fat People Serve as Health Minister?
That was the all-consuming question PQ Leader Pauline Marois needed to answer yesterday it seems, replying in the affirmative and saying, “I believe a health minister has a basic duty to set an example. Like, for me, the education minister has a duty to set an example by sending their
Continue readingBlunt Objects: New Sask Ridings Give NDP a Leg Up
The folks doing the federal redistribution for the province of Saskatchewan has come out with their proposed boundaries today, finally putting to rest those horrible eight ridings that broke up the cities of Regina and Saskatoon into four parts each, combining urban and suburban parts of the cities with huge
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Will Marois and the PQ Sweep Gaspé?
The Globe and Mail has an interesting article pointing out PQ Leader Pauline Marois’ belief that a sweep of the three ridings that make up the Gaspé region of Québec. It is an interesting notion, and one that isn’t crazy either. The péquistes swept the Gaspé in 1994, the Oui
Continue readingBlunt Objects: We Missed Something in Manitoba…
A by-election call and a new Opposition leader! Well, I missed it anyways. I knew that former PC Leader Hugh McFadyen had stepped down as leader and also as MLA for the riding of Fort Whyte, but I wasn’t aware that Greg Selinger had opted to call it so soon
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