Well there is now just over a month to go before the election. And in the leafy lanes of Ward's Island it's easy to relax, for everything is so peaceful, progressive, and mostly orange.In this riding the battle is between the NDP and the Liberals, and the Cons don't stand a
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Susan on the Soapbox: Can Lynton Crosby Save Stephen Harper?
Big news this week for the Harper campaign watchers—uber political strategist Lynton Crosby joined the Harper campaign team. Why this is news now and not when Crosby started working with the Harper team in March is a mystery, but never mind. Mr Crosby has a stellar record. He brought John
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Bad Conduct Con Campaign
If you remember when we last left Stephen Harper, he was sitting in the office of his Australian spin doctor getting the bad news about his campaign.And either squirming uncomfortably, or gagging violently.Which as it turns out now seems almost like proctologist poetic justice.Now that we know that he has slapped a
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Spitting Into The Wind
http://364daysofthanksgiving.com/ Last week, Stephen Harper pulled an Australian rabbit out of his hat. Up until now, he’s been a pretty successful magician. He’s created diversions to distract his audience from what he’s really doing. The diversions are called wedge issues. But his show has been on the road for
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is the Con’s Australian Attack Dog Violating Our Election Laws?
When the story broke that the Australian attack dingo Lynton Crosby was working for the Cons, I was struck by how angrily the political thugs in the PMO reacted.The Con flak Kory Teneycke tried to play down the news, claiming first that Crosby was not here, and then that all
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: It Couldn’t Happen To A Nicer Guy
ipolitics.ca The wheels are falling off the Harper campaign bus. Michael Harris writes: No wonder Jenni Byrne is folding like a $3 dollar suitcase. Reform-style loons have broken out of their shallow graves and are once more shambling across the landscape. And how did Stephen “He’s Not Perfect” Harper
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Desperate Stephen Harper and the Ghastly Bigot of Oz
It couldn't be more desperate or more absurd or more obscene. And the timing couldn't be worse. Just as Stephen Harper seems to be bowing to public pressure, and preparing to finally do something to help desperate Syrian refugees. The Conservatives, after continued criticism they are not doing enough to address the Syrian
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Another Great Video And Even More Reasons To Stop Harper
Earlier today I ran this adbuster's video with its reasons we deserve better than Stephen Harper and his monstrous regime… Now here's another powerful video with even more reasons to Stop Harper…Read more »
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Three months later … #nlpoli
In June, SRBP used the CRA poll from the second quarter of 2015 as the basis for a bit of “what if” thinking. Consider that the Liberals have dropped seven points in six months. The New Democrats are up seven in three months. Extend that trend forward to September. Then
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Are We Finally Witnessing the Total Collapse of the Harper Regime?
Yesterday I told you that the mood in the Con War Room couldn't be grimmer, and that the mood on their bus couldn't be more toxic. And that many were blaming Jenni Byrne.Well now Byrne has been kicked off the bus and sent back to Ottawa. One of Stephen Harper's closest advisers
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Wheels Really Are Falling Off the Con Campaign
As you know I've been having a bit of fun following the Con campaign bus as it roars down the road, from one tightly controlled photo op to another.Or limps into third place.And for a few weeks I've been hearing rumours that all is not well on the big blue machine. And
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Really REALLY Bad Day
Well I can only imagine what Stephen Harper must have been feeling like when he returned to his war room or his rubber room last night.But he must have been fit to be tied, or bouncing off the walls.Because he couldn't have had a worse day. There just wasn't ANY good news.It
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Disastrous State of the Con Campaign
When Stephen Harper launched the longest election campaign since 1926, he no doubt hoped that by now he would have crushed his political enemiesThrown them under the wheels of his mighty bus.Or smeared them beyond recognition as he flew over them in his shiny new plane… And if that campaign had been
Continue readingMontreal Simon: What I Believe This Election Should Be About But So Far Isn’t
It has to be the strangest election campaign I have ever known. In the condo jungle where I live it's hard to know one is even underway. There are no lawns, so there are no lawn signs.I have received only one pamphlet, from the local Con candidate. Which I quickly
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Why Would Any . . .?
http://www.quickmeme.com/ In his latest column, Tim Harper recounts his frustrated and frustrating attempts to talk to Conservative candidates across the country: I never met Mike Little, the Conservative candidate in the key riding of Burnaby North-Seymour. I met every other candidate but Little had personal considerations
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: No Ordinary Election
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ This is no ordinary election. Ralph Surette has been around quite awhile and he’s seen a lot of governments. And, he writes, the Harper government
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Chicken Harper and the Con’s New Campaign Song
Well as you know Chicken Harper has changed his tune or his feathers. Now he isn't going around claiming people should vote for him because only he can save us from the terrorist menace.Or because our economy is so strong, and he's a Great Economist Leader.Now he's claiming we should vote
Continue readingcentre of the universe: How to get engaged in Canadian politics: an educational resource
Here is a handy guide that will help you, disenfranchised Canadian, get engaged with and get involved in the upcoming (eventually, at the end of several more weeks of pre-election hell) federal election! The first step, as the number to the left would indicate, is to click every single link
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Remembering Jack Layton and the New Orange Tsunami
It's hard to believe that it's now been four years since Jack Layton died, and the hopes of so many turned to sadness.And yesterday evening, when I returned from the island to the ferry dock named after him, I paused for a moment before this statue in my neighbourhood. I
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Nightmare Week in Campaign Hell
I can only imagine Stephen Harper's state of mind, after what must have been for him a week in the hell of his own making.For it was the week the Duffy scandal shredded what was left of his credibility. The week his campaign went off the rails.The week that revealed the
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