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September 12, 2015 Richard Hughes

Cowichan Conversations: Harper Hires Infamous Australian Political Strategist From ‘Spin Doctors Without Borders’

Richard Hughes Here we are in a three way race, according to the polls, with Harper hugging the margins of being the underdog to both the NDP’s Mulcair and Liberal’s Trudeau. This is fertile Read more…

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May 29, 2013 bluegreenblogger

Not an Official Green Party Canada Site: Robocalls Case: If the CPC did not do it, then someone stole the data. Call in the RCMP please.

I am not too happy that Elections Canada is getting nowhere with their robocalls investigation. Back on the EDay in question, I too received a robocall informing me that my polling place had changed. At the time I shrugged it off as Elections Canada incompetence, because I had already voted

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March 25, 2012 Rev.Paperboy

the woodshed: More ratfucking

Looks like Pierre Poutine has been at it again.How long before we get to see Dean Del Mastro speculate about whether it was the Liberals who did this or the NDP executive in a false flag attack intended to gin up sympathy for the party or possibly the CBC trying

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March 19, 2012 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Robocon: Bob Rae and stopping the clock

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March 14, 2012 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Robocon: Bob Rae has one week to protect Canada’s democracy by stopping the clock

Bob Rae – one week to go And a study by a Simon Fraser professor finds that the robocalls could have affected the result of the May 2 2011 election: In a new paper, a Simon Fraser University economist finds that robo-calling, if the phenomenon did occur, could have significantly

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March 9, 2012 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Robocon: Can this Tory help find Pierre Poutine?

Andrew Prescott Canada’s Woodward & Bernstein journalists (the intrepid Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher), have a report this morning about some tweets in Guelph before the questionable election of May 2, 2011: On the day “Pierre Poutine” activated the burner cellphone used to launch his robocall blitz on voters in

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March 8, 2012 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Robocon: Bob Rae has 12 days to protect Canada’s democracy by stopping the clock

The clock is ticking and there are less than three weeks to go (around 12 days as of today) before voters lose their right to appeal to the courts under the Canada Elections Act to upset the results of the May 2 election in at least 27 ridings. And Bob

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March 7, 2012 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Robocon: Were our laws broken?

Misinformation is in the air, from the Tory front and back benches to journalists. Some is deliberate, designed to distract the public’s attention from misdeeds; others are perhaps simply mistakes. Take this opinion in the Montreal Gazette: Many of the complaints are about calls that were simply annoying and deceitful,

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March 7, 2012 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Roboscam: Bob Rae has 13 days to protect Canada’s democracy by stopping the clock

The clock is ticking and there are less than three weeks to go (around 13 days as of today) before voters lose their right to appeal to the courts under the Canada Elections Act to upset the results of the May 2 election in at least 27 ridings. And Bob

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March 6, 2012 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Robocon: Crushing poll results for Tories on the voter suppression in the last election

Hat tip to Kinsella for pointing the way to this March 6, Angus Reid poll. Almost two out of three Canadians believe there were many voter suppression telephone calls during the May 2011 election (despite Tory MPs desperate attempts in Parliament to limit the criminality to one riding only –

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March 6, 2012 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Robocon: Bob Rae has 14 days to protect Canada’s democracy by stopping the clock

The clock is ticking and there are less than three weeks to go (around 14 days as of today) before voters lose their right to appeal to the courts under the Canada Elections Act to upset the results of the May 2 election in at least 27 ridings. And Bob

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March 4, 2012 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Roboscam: The Cat’s Hints for Journalists

Journalists, wanna be modern day Woodward&Bernsteins? Wanna rise to the top of the pack right now and make a name for yourself and your publication? Wanna get your name in the history books of those proactive members of the Fifth Estate who changed the course of history? Yes? Then don’t

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March 4, 2012 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Roboscam: Bob Rae has 16 days to protect Canada’s democracy by stopping the clock

The clock is ticking and there are less than three weeks to go (around 16 days as of today) before voters lose their right to appeal to the courts under the Canada Elections Act to upset the results of the May 2 election in

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March 4, 2012 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Roboscam: Is this the smoking gun?

Deep Throat says: Stop the clock! Hat tip to Saskboy for this bit of sleuthing (along with his many commentators and twitters): If the Conservative lie that only Guelph is the focus of the Robocalls (RoboCon) investigation, and Pierre Poutine worked only for some rouge op in Guelph, who in

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March 3, 2012 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Roboscam: Did Americans try to rig the May 2011 election in Canada?

With Elections Canada flooded with 31,000 complaints from Canadians, and with 25% of the 308 ridings (a total of 77 ridings) now associated with possible voter suppression tactics during the May 2011 election, a new issue has arisen which should concern Canadians. THE TWO ISSUES Was there an organized, deliberate

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March 3, 2012 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Roboscam: Bob Rae has 17 days to protect Canada’s democracy

The clock is ticking and there are less than three weeks to go (around 17 days as of today) before voters lose their right to appeal to the courts under the Canada Elections Act to upset the results of the May 2 election

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March 2, 2012 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Roboscam: Where’s Poutine? Follow the map!

Hat tip to Saskboy for this fascinating post which hints that it might be possible to physically track exactly where the mysterious Pierre Poutine was when he made those voter suppression calls during the May 2011 election. Click here for a graphic illustration of how this works! Click the start

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March 2, 2012 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Roboscam: Ten Things You can do to protect Canada’s democracy

Elections Canada has finally thought fit to let the public know the extent of Canadians’ concern about voter suppression actions during the May 2011 federal election. It says it has received a staggering 31,000 complaints from upset Canadians about possible election fraud! Now is the time for all Canadians to

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March 2, 2012 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Roboscam: Bob Rae has 18 days to protect our democracy

The clock is ticking and there are less than three weeks to go (around 18 days as of today) before voters lose their right to appeal to the courts to upset the results of the May 2 election in at least 27 ridings. And Bob Rae, having identified 27 ridings

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March 1, 2012 CuriosityCat

CuriosityCat: Roboscam: How the courts can help voters find justice

We seem to have hit a roadblock in a prime minister who treats evidence of voter suppression cavalierly and instead stalls when asked to appoint an independent judicial commission to inquire into possible major breaches of the democratic rights of Canadian voters. By what measure can a prime minister

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