The EKOS survey taken after the election throws some interesting light on the Changers. The G&M article is here, and the poll results are herehttp://www.ekospolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/41st_election.pdf.Scott’s Diatribes deals with another face…
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CuriosityCat: Save the Eurozone and the EU with EuroHope Bonds
The grand experiment of the European Union and of the 17-member Eurozone is far too significant for Europeans to let it fail.The problem: Right now, the EU is buffeted with low growth, high unemployment, high public and private sector debt, and politic…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Ontario NDP’s Andrea Horwath can remedy the democratic deficit, massive poll says
We are close to the wire in the race for a new provincial government in our most populated province, says a massive new poll. The chances right now are high that neither the Liberals nor the Tories will win a majority.And the NDP will emerge as the one…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: How long before Quebeckers start feeling unloved by the NDP?
We seem to be witnessing the parade of the emperor without any clothes, as the leadership campaign to replace Jack Layton gets underway. If you are inside the NDP, it seems that you see the emperor garbed in shining gold cloth, with a crown reflecting …
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Rex Murphy: NDP leadership election rules are "suicide"
The latest voice to chime in on the questionable leadership rules for the NDP is that gravelly-voiced prophet of doom, Rex Murphy.Known for his incisive and opinionated views on Canadian politics and politicians, Murphy has made a career of being strai…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Is this NDP leader Nycole Turmel’s "Kissinger Moment"?
Nixon and Kissinger: Benign NeglectHenry Kissinger firmly believed that his understanding of Realpolitik reflected the realism of a handful of famous statesmen of bygone decades.Bismarkian in his aloofness, Metternichean in his pronouncements, Kissinge…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Science Communication: Training for the Future
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Yesterday I arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada, for another installment of an enterprise to which I’ve been increasingly devoted over the last year: Training scientists in c…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: NDP’s brilliant use as a wedge issue of the Quebecois are a nation resolution
Right now Liberals and Tories are getting warm around their collars because the major candidates for leadership of the NDP are supporting a special deal for the province of Quebec which locks in a permanent 25% of seats in the House no matter how small…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: NDP Leadership election: Mulcair has a point
He says that the low membership in the federal NDP party compared to other provinces puts anyone from Quebec running for leader at a disadvantage.He is right.Mulcair is now calling for a leadership drive in that province, mounted by the federal NDP, an…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Modernizing the NDP: Who is pinker – Brian Topp or Thomas Mulcair?
They’re off! The race for the new leader of the Official Opposition party – the NDP – is now on, with one major announced candidate (Brian Topp) and the other major candidate (Thomas Mulcair) setting up a panCanadian team before throwing his hat in…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Mulcair and Topp – Their challenge: 90,000 new NDP members
Right now, the NDP in Quebec is punching far below its weight when it comes to the number of Quebeckers signed up as members of that party. In fact, it is punching so far below its weight that it really isn’t in the ring at all.The challenge for Topp a…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Harris Decima polls: NDP and Liberal cooperation – now and in 2010
The latest Harris Decima poll shows little appetite for a merger of the NDP and Liberal Party.However, this poll only shows the views of supporters of these two parties with respect to a full merger of the two parties. The total nationally is 24%…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Who will win: Mitt Romney or Rick Perry? Ask the Cheese Doctor
If Obama wants to know which of these two men he will be facing in the 2012 election, he could find the answer from a French-born anthropologist who could be called the Cheese Doctor.Jack Hitt in the New York Times describes a lengthy interview he had …
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Will the new Canadian NDP leader lack legitimacy?
There’s a good chance he or she will.If the NDP executive (bureaucracy) decide on September 9 to hamstring the Quebec wing of the NDP by setting a date for the election that is too short (anything before May 15 would be too soon), and/or provide for so…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Liberals: Ask your NDP friends to vote for Pat Martin as next NDP leader
Liberals have a golden opportunity to shape the contours of our politics for the next decade by involving themselves in the NDP leadership selection process.They can do this by talking to their NDP friends and trying to persuade them to vote for an N…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Bob Rae and the Iffy Question of Merger with the NDP
Summer nonsense spilled over into the press conference held today with Bob Rae. One of the questions dealt with a possible merger between the Liberal and NDP parties. Rae was forthright, and quoted FDR in his answer.Like Roosevelt, Rae said he saw the …
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The Answer to the Tea Party No-Taxes Pledge
The world had just watched in befuddlement as the mighty USA has reeled from the impact on its governance of a large group of members of Congress who have united in a pledge placed before them by Grover Norquist.Norquist’s claim to fame is his mission …
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Krugman loses hope – without cause
The US has just gone through one of its periodic bargaining sessions, involving the President, the House and the Senate. Much ado about nothing occurred, and then a deal was cut and disaster averted.Meanwhile, back at the ranch, progressives are bemo…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Jack Layton’s Plans versus Reality
Right now Jack Layton and the NDP are rightfully riding high, with their newly elected MPs learning the ropes. Layton says repeatedly that the NDP will keep the Conservative majority government honest, by raising issues which it believes the government…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: First signs of the Bobby Bounce?
On May 25 Bob Rae became interim Leader of the Liberal Party, after a few weeks of speculation that the job would be his. On May 2 the surprising election was held, reducing the Liberals to a mere 18.9% of the votes cast, which sank a few weeks later t…
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