This is from an email from Ontario Proud, who may be a PCPO front group: And it’s true. I cannot see a party led by some coup leader doing better than the current leader. As for recent polls, McGuinty was down 15% back in 2011, which is similar to today’s
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the reeves report: Mississauga mayor urges government to move on from gas-plant hearings
Outspoken Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion lit up the Standing Committee on Justice Policy at Queen’s Park Thursday morning with testimony on the government’s 2011 decision to cancel a proposed gas plant in a residential neighbourhood. Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion Though a witness called by the Liberal government, McCallion was blunt
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: When Green Energy Meets Endangered Species In Ontario
…you get something like this decision from the Environmental Registry, allowing Grand Valley Wind Farms Inc. to build nine wind turbines in the Township of East Luther Grand Valley on Bobolink habitat. The restrictions seem quite elaborate, and involve “more than mitigation measures or “replacing” what is lost”, for example providing
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: MikeHudak/Tim Harris
Ontario News Watch has been gradually expanding beyond simple news aggregation into investigative jurnalism, with occasionally impressive results. For example, this story: Directly contrary to what PC leader Tim Hudak’s advisors have been saying publicly for two years, a number of former Premier Mike Harris’ so-called “Whiz Kids” were involved
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: The Fall and Rise of Dalton McGuinty
If I told you a few months ago there would be a picture of Dalton McGuinty waving on newspaper front pages October 7th, you’d have assumed it would be on the Sun, directly below a “GOODBYE! GOOD RIDDANCE!” headline .After all, when the unofficial campa…
Continue readingthe reeves report: Ontario votes to amble into the twenty-tens
For an election that was about as little as an election can possibly be about, last nights results brought more change to Ontario than many anticipated. And despite the set election dates we have in Ontario, Ontarians should not expect to wait until 2015 before casting their next provincial ballot. But they can be forgiven … Continue reading »
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Quick Notes
…on the Ontario Election results.1) Folks weren’t that angry after all. The opposition here–as opposed to B.C.–to the HST was never more than muted. That was the first sign to those who were looking. The cost of Hydro as an e…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Majority-ish
With nearly all the votes counted, here’s how it looks:Lib 53PC 37NDP 17Which, as you will hear about fifty billion times this weekend, leaves the Liberals one seat shy of a majority government. However not all minorities are created equal, and failing…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Ontario Votes
I won’t be providing many updates tonight, but will offer some thoughts before heading off to bed, with the mandatory post-mortems coming tomorrow.By all means, share your thoughts in the comments section as the results roll in.
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Ontario Votes
Ontarians head to the polls today, with the two parties deadlocked a Liberal majority looming a PC victory likely the outcome still up in the air.I’ll be voting for Dalton McGuinty. No surprise there. But I still want to take a moment to explain why, b…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: MTHIRTY Pulls Down Another Fake Enviro-Blog
MTHIRTY is the marketing firm behind the PWU’s (Power Workers Union) social media campaign against the McGuinty Green Energy Act. Part of this campaign involved creating a number of fake blogs touting the PWU’s stance on AGW and sustainable …
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: “The Tories are not going to win. This campaign is all but finished"
Those are the words of Ipsos’ John Wright.If Tim Hudak is worried about a Liberal-NDP coalition, there’s only one way to prevent it at this point – and it’s not by voting PC.Ipsos (Sep 30 to Oct 3; n = 1200 phone)Lib 41%PC 31%NDP 25%Green 3%Nanos (Oct …
Continue readingthe reeves report: Ontario Votes 2011: Getting back to the Meat and Potatoes of Governing
Well, here we are. The Ontario provincial election is two days away, and the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives are locked in a dead heat, continuing to make election promises at the 11th hour; the House of Commons in Ottawa has been in session for weeks now with Stephen Harper’s Conservative majority firmly in power; and … Continue reading »
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Let us make one thing perfectly clear
Ontario is parliamentary democracy, albeit within it’s own constitutional jurisdiction. As such it is the Ontario legislature that determines who will be in the government and form the Cabinet. As in all parliamentary democracies a government is legiti…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ontario Progressive Conservatives Go Gay Bashing
The article from Xtra in fairly in-depth. The most interesting bit:Liberal spokesperson Alicia Johnston says the flyers were distributed in English and Punjabi in a Brampton grocery store……which reminds me of this incident from the Toronto mayoral …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Monday Morning Notes
Junk-mail: this piece of homophobic drivel is circulating in a number of Brampton ridings. It has been officially sanctioned the the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (note the boilerplate text at the bottom). It is …
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: The Sun Won’t Come Out For Hudak
The Toronto Star’s endorsement of Dalton McGuinty shouldn’t surprise anyone. Yes, they were briefly the “Orange Star” this spring, but anyone who has read their Ontario election coverage saw this one coming a mile away.Today’s Globe endorsement is like…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Who’s Endorsing Rocco Rossi?
…actually, they’ve gone PCPO down the line, it looks like. That’s JDL-Canada–the guys that made allies of Stephen Lennon, leader of that gang of neo-Nazis, pedophiles, and crack heads that is the English Defense League, who is now lo…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: The Morning After
Last night was the lone televised debate of the Ontario election campaign. With the vote too close to call, a lot was riding on it, and after last night……not a heck of a lot changed. I have a hard time seeing how anyone would actually change their …
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