I haven’t yet seen the popular vote counts, but my initial impressions from last night are: -It is possible to attract progressive voters to the polls. -It is possible to find success running as the anti-Harper. -Ignatieff wasn’t able to shepherd the left’s “herd of cats”. Layton now has 4
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Enormous Thriving Plants: Election thoughts.
I haven’t yet seen the popular vote counts, but my initial impressions from last night are:-It is possible to attract progressive voters to the polls.-It is possible to find success running as the anti-Harper.-Ignatieff wasn’t able to shepherd the left…
Continue readingliberal catnip: Election – Post-Game Thoughts
So, there we have it: the Cons have a majority government. The NDP is the official opposition. Iggy led the Liberal party to a historic low in the house. The BQ is all but decimated and, at this point, Elizabeth May of the Greens might have won a seat …
Continue readingliberal catnip: Election – Post-Game Thoughts
So, there we have it: the Cons have a majority government. The NDP is the official opposition. Iggy led the Liberal party to a historic low in the house. The BQ is all but decimated and, at this point, Elizabeth May of the Greens might have won a seat for
Continue readingElection – Post-Game Thoughts
So, there we have it: the Cons have a majority government. The NDP is the official opposition. Iggy led the Liberal party to a historic low in the house. The BQ is all but decimated and, at this point, Elizabeth May of the Greens might have won a seat for
Continue readingA. Picazo: Sun News Network: Let The (Incredibly Lazy) Astroturfing Begin!
It has been fascinating to watch the Conservative campaign strategy evolve over the past two weeks; working in tandem with Sun TV in a quest to secure a Harper majority, and to destroy the opposition leaders. Aside from the standard issued talking points submitted by the Conservative war room and
Continue readingDrive-by Times: NDP looking strong on eve of Canadian election
In an EKOS-iPolitics poll for May 1 the gap between the NDP and front-running Conservatives has narrowed to just 3 points. The poll has the Conservatives with 34.6% of support of decided and leaning voters – the NDP is at 31.4%. The Liberals are back a…
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: Election Day Eve
Based on no story but inspiration from an online friends. Thanks Erik and Red! 😉
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Stephen Harper tweets that a coalition government would be legitimate
Democracy is all about choices, deciding which individuals and which parties we want to represent us in government. There has been some concern that Stephen Harper might not accept the rules of our democracy if he were to be leading a minority gover…
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Its going to be a Harper Majority
The polls open in less than 24 hours, so its time for a prediction…and sorry to say it looks to me like a Harper majority. Based on the polls, especially those relating to the province of Ontario, I see Harper’s Conservatives garnering somewhere…
Continue readingPop The Stack: Liberals Turn My Dreams a Whiter Shade of Pale
I just flipped on the radio and Michael Ignatieff is talking about electoral reform. Am I in some kind of Fringe-like alternate universe where my dreams (ahem, remember The Liberal Nuclear Option?) are about to become reality? Well, not exactly. Iggy…I believe you have a large bucket of ice world water for me? I’ve said […]
Enormous Thriving Plants: "SUN gives Jack a happy ending"
The Rev. Paperboy gives the latest bit of election nonsense the best roundup I’ve read yet.
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: "SUN gives Jack a happy ending"
The Rev. Paperboy gives the latest bit of election nonsense the best roundup I’ve read yet.
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: "SUN gives Jack a happy ending"
The Rev. Paperboy gives the latest bit of election nonsense the best roundup I’ve read yet.
Continue readingIts not going to work
#ndp #elxn41 #jacklayton #cpc #toronto
The recent smear on Jack Layton isn’t going to work. Remember Bill Clinton? His extra marital affair was used by his conservative enemies to undermine his office and tried to impeach him from office. Hardly a tre…
Canadian Soapbox: Harper majority out of reach? DON’T BET ON IT!!!
Surprise surprise, Stephen Harper’s tightly controlled campaign machine has sprung a leak. The Toronto Star is reporting that senior Conservative party insiders are saying ‘they’re just not there’ in terms of being able to garner enough seats aft…
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Sun Media – Smear trumps journalism
Okay, we all know the story by now. Jack Layton went to a licensed massage clinic something like 15 or 16 years ago. Yawn.
That an organization that tries to pass itself off as a source for news would even bother reporting this is one thing, but t…
Preserving Judeo-Christian Values in Canadian Society
Bearing false witness is apparently not much of a Judeo-Christian value these days.
Check this out:
“Naked in a bed in a brothel with a young Asian woman.” Well, that’s not in the story linked to. He was in the bed, she wasn’t. And it was “suspect…
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Canadian Soapbox Exclusive – Jack Layton hit a girl in kindergarten
Jack Layton is alleged to have hit a girl when he was in pre-school back in 1955.
A now retired kindergarten teacher has made startling allegations against NDP leader Jack Layton. The stunning revelation about the current leader of the New D…
thwap makes a good point
Again. But he tends to doing it.There have been serious war crimes allegations made during the Afghanistan war, which demand investigation, and if necessary, prosecution.Appointing an investigator with subpoena power is one of the very first acts Prime…
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