Is A Vote For Christy Now, Officially….

AllThePollsThatFit BigBoldPABsterBacklashVille ….A Vote For The NDP? The VSun’s Doug Ward is first out of the gate with the latest poll numbers. Here’s his lede: VANCOUVER — B.C. Premier Christy Clark has failed to stem the growing appeal of the provincial Conservatives, a new poll suggests. The survey by Forum

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Canada’s new Liberals (*snicker*)

As some readers may remember, I covered the Conservative Convention in 2008 and the Liberal Convention in 2009. The upcoming Liberal Convention plans to charge bloggers $1,100 to attend. We will not be given accreditation, you see, unless we are sponsored by some member of the corporate media. Otherwise we

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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Just Read Jeff

 …re the LPoC’s decision to charge non-MSM affiliated bloggers $1,100 to attend their lame, non-newsworthy convention in January.  Its all well-argued, but here’s his take on the only argument in favour of the LPoC decision that I have occasionally considered defensible: Why are they ending blogger accreditation? I can only speculate. I

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Canada Still Coming Up Triple Zeros

IfTommyDWereAliveToday WouldTheHarpoonsDestroyHimTooVille? In a good way….. As was explained by citizen Terry Champion in a fantastic letter to the Edmonton Journal a couple of days ago: “Statistics for 2009 compiled by Harvard Medical School and the U.S. Census Bureau show that, in the insurance-dominated U.S. healthcare system, 45,000 Americans died

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