@Bigcitylib2 monday, and for all the poll needy we are going to be doing a rollin poll fairly soon so numbers every day!— Frank Graves (@VoiceOfFranky) May 31, 2014
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: X Ethical Oil SpokesThing Running For Tim Hudak
Jamie Ellerton, his name is, and he’s running down in Parkdale High-Park. Click through link below for more on him: @SunNewsNetwork @JEllerton The old ED for @Ethical_Oil is running for Tim Hudak? The BCLSB file on him: http://t.co/HSuMHixehL #onpoli— Bigcitylib (@Bigcitylib2) May 31, 2014 His bio is interesting: As the Executive
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: PCPO Candidate for Sudbury Paula Peroni: Job Losses Will Be In Other Ridings
They’re still doing the calculations, but: Peroni says the party’s numbers “are indicating very minor numbers in job loss here in the city… what we’re really after are the high-paid bureaucrats, the majority of which are in southern Ontario, central Ontario, so we expect very little impact here in Sudbury.”Fair
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Shorter MaRS "Scandal"
In 2002, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government, eager to throw off the notion that it hated science and evidence, ordered the building of some big buildings with words like “science” and “discovery” in their very names. Today these buildings sit only partially tenanted, and the current government must deal with this
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tory Turmoil For Tim Hudak
See PCPO candidate Jeff Bennett disown Tim hudak’s 1,000,000 jobs plan at local candidates debate.
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Andrew Coyne assures us "Hudak’s bogus plan is no reason not to vote for him"
The media reaction to Hudak’s 8 fold screwup in his Million 75,000 Jobs Plan has been almost as ridiculous as the mistake in the plan itself. I already wrote about what the CBC’s frontpage was doing in the interest of “balance” and “nonpartisanship”. But what about the media op-eds? The latest
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Media stenography: The CBC can’t bring itself to call Hudak’s plan what it is
If you haven’t heard, Hudak’s so called Million Jobs plan is more like a 75,000 jobs plan, based on an obvious mistake that meant most of his numbers were multiplied by 8. That is the best case scenario, accepting all the numbers selectively pulled from a particular report, accepting the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sri Lankan Paper Accuses NDP Candidate of Extremism
Don’t know quite what to make of this. The source is a Sri Lankan Newspaper (The Sunday Leader); the guy in the picture does look like Neethan Shan, and he is definitely standing in front of a Tamil Tiger flag. On the other hand, some of these Lankan papers through
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: 2014 Ontario Election: Much to lose, little to gain for the NDP
I once wrote about what I called the “n-party problem”, how movements of various parties on a political spectrum is much more complicated when n, the number of political parties, is greater than two, analogous to the complicated orbits of n-body solar systems for n greater than two. The positioning
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: PCPO Candidate For Simcoe-Grey Is Ready To Break Contracts
“We’ll do whatever it takes to stop WPD Canada from putting the wind turbines in this vicinity,” said [said PCPO candidate Jim] Wilson. “It is in process, and it may end up in a lawsuit, but we just can’t allow it.” It seems to me that you can’t effectively argue
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Contempt Of The Electorate?
Tom, a friend of mine, posted the following on Facebook yesterday: Kind of tired of all the polemical posturing in the latest election. However, can anyone provide one instance in history — at least, since the advent of the Industrial Revolution — where, corporate or business tax cuts, the basis
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The best case view of the NDP platform
NDP candidate Rosario Marchese cuts through a lot of spin to defend a frank and real representation of the NDP’s platform. In my previous post, I was fairly harsh towards the NDP plan – both as a set of policies and the larger strategies. I wanted to share his post
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: New EKOS Poll Shows Steady OLP Lead, NDP Sliding Off Track Into Snow Fence Of Failure, Green Party Surge!!!!!!
From here. Looking at the NDP numbers, one could make cheap jokes about “electile dysfunction”, but we are above that here at BCLSB. The Green party spike is fascinating and, I hope, permanent. Having even one GP rep has made an out-sized difference not only federally with Canadian Hero Lizzy
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The Ontario NDP’s small plan isn’t even good strategy
Shortly after the 2014 Ontario Election was called, I said that progressives – whether nonpartisans like myself or NDP supporters like some of you – should take yes for an answer, and vote to reward Kathleen Wynne’s relatively left leaning and progressive budget. Andrea Horwath’s big chance to change my
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: New Forum Poll Shows OLP Moving Ahead
Sure its only Forum (from here, but behind irritating pay-wall.). But it does show what common-sense dictates…that running on a platform of “leaner times for all” won’t fire up no crowds. It also shows something confirmed by every other poll, regardless of source: that the NDP campaign has come out of
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Doug Holyday In Trouble
Good morning, Toronto residents. From here.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Most Interesting Bit From The New Abacus Poll
…which you can find in its entirety here: Voters more likely to have been contacted by OLP or PC campaigns than NDP campaign.…which reflects my own experience in Scarborough this time around. The NDP has been very slow off the mark, them of the unparalleled ground game. And they started
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: PCPO MPP Lisa MacLeod: An Inconvenient Clip
Its truncated, sure. But anyone’s first impression of PCPO MPP Lisa defending Tim Hudak’s jobs plan is that a Hudak gov. will somehow include women taking maternity leave in its total of 100,000 civil servants fired. Clarification is surely needed.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Common Sense Revolution Redux ( A.K.A. Tiny Tim Roars)
H/t Theo Moudakis If you have resided in Ontario for some years, and were of a certain age when Ontario’s Common Sense Revolution was conducted by Mike ‘The Knife’ Harris, you will recall it was a time of great upheaval that, contrary to the mythologizing that the right-wing so much
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Hudak’s New Ad
My favorite bit. He’s just fired a bunch of people. It wasn’t an easy decision. It was a hard one. It didn’t make him happy. The rest of is here.
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