From CFRA: Alex Cullen, the NDP candidate for Ottawa-West Nepean admitted public sector job cuts are likely if his party is in power following the June election, but would likely not approach the number proposed by the PC’s. The NDP! Sacking civil servants! I never thought I would see the
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Politics and its Discontents: Connecting The Dots
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Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: New EKOS Poll Result Is Good For OLP
First the highlights: our polling shows the Liberals with a clear and possibly growing lead. They have opened up a seven-point lead on Tim Hudak’s Progressive Conservatives (PC) and the (for now) hapless NDP have blown up under a decision to pull the plug on a budget that normally would
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Following Politics Too Closely Takes Its Toll
I imagine that many people who follow politics closely do so in the belief that it is one of the few arenas that offers the possibility of change on a wide scale. Enlightened public policy, backed by the appropriate fiscal measures, can help bring about greater social and economic equity,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Hudak Adviser Ben Zycher Is Crazier Than I Thought. Tim Hudak Should Fire Him
I just picked up on the “in the tank for tabacco companies” stuff, and the GAW denialism. I missed the really crazy stuff: Hudak needs to fire his economic adviser who made racially-charged insult against Michelle Obama. #onpoli #voteon #olp— Greg Crone (@GregCrone) May 15, 2014 What he’s talking about
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Ontario NDP: The Party of No Damn Principles?
That is the conclusion Rick Salutin recently came to in a column entitled Andrea Horwath’s right-wing populism. Describing her as a right-wing populist, full out, Salutin explored the framework within which this unpleasant and inconvenient truth emerges: She’s Rob Ford, thinking always about saving taxpayers money simplistically by cutting waste
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Why I’m Glad I Wasn’t A Math Teacher
While those heard-headed pragmatists who rule the world today often disdain ‘soft’ subjects like English literature, sociology, and a host of other disciplines that require nuanced, as opposed to blunt thinking, I am glad that I was an English teacher instead of one dispensing the wonders of mathematics. Even though
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Meanwhile, Back In The Land of Ontario Election Campaigns….
The mask of boyish innocence was slowly slipping away from young Tim Hudak. H/t Toronto Star H/t Ray Mirshahi Recommend this Post
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: I Know Its Only A Forum Poll/ But I’ll Take It
The 1,000,000 pink-slip plan is a dud:Kathleen Wynne’s governing Liberals now lead with 38 per cent support to 33 per cent for the Conservatives, 21 per cent for Andrea Horwath’s New Democrats, and 5 per cent for Mike Schreiner’s Greens.In the May 2 Forum poll, the Tories were at 38
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ontario Tories Get Economic Analysis Of Million Job Plan From AEI Junk Scientist
The PCs have released the economic analysis under their million-jobs plan. It’s by Benjamin Zycher, of the American Enterprise Institute.— David Reevely (@davidreevely) May 13, 2014 One thing to know about the American Enterprise Institute is they’ve lobbied in the past against policies to curb both smoking and anthropogenic global
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: What Stephen Harper, Tim Hudak And The Rest of The Neocons Really Think
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Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: NDP Should Stop Crapping On Windsor
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is damaging Windsor’s economy by exaggerating and exploiting the Herb Gray Parkway girder dispute as an election issue, Mayor Eddie Francis claims.Francis has asked the Horwath election campaign to cut it out. He’s asked twice — the party ignored a written request last week and returned
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Taking the HST off hydro is bad policy, if good politics
One of the signature campaign planks for the NDP in the 2014 Ontario Election is to remove the HST from our hydro bills, saving perhaps $120 a year for average families. The motivation behind this – reducing the cost to average families – is reasonable and will undoubtedly be a
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Bad Math From Hudak? Press Release Over-Estimates Savings From Cancelling Fit Program By Factor Of 20?
Their news release can be found here. But here’s a screen shot just in case they try to alter it: Because Tom Adams, no friend of wind energy, says point 1. is just wrong: @Bigcitylib2 The PCs have a press release claiming $20B savings per year. Must be a typo.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Surely You Jest. Tim Hudak Blames Unions For His Advance Team’s Inability To File The Proper Fucking Paperwork
Tim Hudak’s PCPOs have an excuse for why Mr. Hudak got his ass tossed off the TTC this morning for attempting to film an “availability” without getting clearance from the proper authorities. CUPE workers stop Tim Hudak photo op on the TTC. They are only interested themselves, not fixing transit
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: If Tim Hudak Runs The Province Like He Runs His Campaign, We’re All Screwed
He may want to have a chat with his advance team. RT @AdrianMorrow Transit cops busting up @timhudak‘s TTC photo-op pic.twitter.com/pBOtWQqyQt— Adam Radwanski (@aradwanski) May 11, 2014 Immortalized on Youtube:His plan to fix transit undermined by the fact his handlers are too dumb to successfully take a subway train.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tim Hudak’s Plans For Education?
On CBC The House, Tim Hudak said he would increase class sizes to economize. Increase class size to 60 students per teacher #Onpoli #VoteON— Nickie (@MuskokaMoneybag) May 11, 2014 The “?” is because I didn’t listen to The House yesterday. Should be easy enough to verify, though. PS. Between about
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: While Wynne goes to the left, Hudak dives hard right
You might have thought that Tim Hudak would have learned his lesson after his disastrous and short lived attempt to push his party towards US style union busting: going hard right in Ontario isn’t a winning strategy. Well, he is at it again with the first two major campaign announcement
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ontario Fire Fighters Against Tim Hudak’s Proposed Civil Service Cutbacks
BURLINGTON – The Ontario Professional Fire Fighters Association came out against Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak’s plan to cut 100,000 jobs from the public sector. “Tim Hudak can’t seem to make up his mind. He says he wants to bring jobs to the province, but then announced this morning that he plans to
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tim Hudak Is Mike Harris Squared
BARRIE — Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak says a Tory government would cut 100,000 jobs from the Ontario public sector. He specifically mentioned firing teachers, so look out for another teacher’s strike down the road. And, like Mike Harris and his downloading, it appears Hudak will try and get
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