I’ve suggested this before but here it is again in brief, can anyone explain to me what the downside of this would be for the Liberals? Nuclear Option: The Liberal party makes a statement in the last two weeks of the campaign such as If we form government, our party will put forward legislation to […]
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Pop The Stack: Deja Vu Election All Over Again
Hey there, election season in Canada is here. Can you smell the ballot papers, the baby powder, the stench of hateful attack ads? Doesn’t make you feel alive… Well, unfortunately this election has come at a bad time for me so I won’t be posting much this election. I’ve got a thesis to write (in fact, […]
Pample the Moose: Brooke Jeffrey, <i>Divided Loyalties: The Liberal Party of Canada, 1984-2008</I>
As I write this review, Canada appears to be on the eve of an election call. It thus seems fitting to reflect on elections and campaigns past. For the past two weeks, I’ve been making my way through Divided Loyalties, Concordia political scientist …
Continue readingPample the Moose: Wild election predictions
I haven’t blogged nearly as much about contemporary politics of late as I did when this blog got started. In no small part, it’s because I’ve found both federal and provincial politics to be rather depressing, and largely without policy initiatives to…
Continue readingCampaign Manager Training
I am sitting in a room of Liberals in downtown Toronto, listening to a series of presentations delving into the details around communications and campaign management. What strikes me is how similar these discussions are to those I have been a part of i…
Continue readingWhen will the Next Federal Election happen in Canada?
I put out a survey asking for people's opinion on when we will have the next Federal election in Canada. The initial results as of now are shown in the chart. I will update it as more results come in. Update 1: March 7, 2011 – 00:01 While the…
Continue readingLunch & Learns a Roaring Success – Revised Schedule
The four part, biweekly Lunch & Learn series on Human Rights and Diversity in the Workplace kicked off with a bang on February 23rd. Karen. Dr. Karen Mock, outstanding lecturer, expert in human rights and women’s issues and the Federal Liberal can…
Continue readingLIVE BLOG: Kitchener Open Mike Event
Real Canadian Politics is happy to be Live Blogging this event live from Bingemans Conference Centre in Kitchener, Ontario. Unfortunately, I have a hockey game at 2:00pm this afternoon so I will have to leave the event early, at about 1:30pm.
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Continue readingDear Afghanistan, we’re not going anywhere yet!
The Conservative Government has finally unveiled the plan for our troops in Afghanistan, and surprise, surprise… we aren’t going anywhere.
Canadian troops will no longer be used in active combat roles after 2011, rather the 950 troops will take on a…
Continue readingIgnatieff Makes Personal Appeal
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff sent out an email to his mass mailing list today, with a subject line of “This is personal.” Here it is:
My mother got sick with Alzheimer’s when she was in her 60s — early, in other words — and my dad took care…
Continue readingCensus vote!
The House of Commons will vote on a motion to call on the Government to reinstate the long form census, about 40 minutes from now. It is known that the Liberals, NDP, and Bloc will all support the motion, with the Conservatives likely voting against it…
Continue readingPutting the registry in perspective
Conservatives, and many other Canadians, are upset about Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff’s decision to force his MPs to save the gun registry, but Liberal MP Scott Simms really put it in perspective today.
Simms was one of the eight Liberal MPs that …
Continue readingTories take lead, or statistical anomaly?
The latest EKOS poll, released to the CBC, show that the Conservatives are holding a 32.4% lead, with the Liberals at 28.9%. The NDP are holding 16.6% support, while the Green Party maintains 10.7% and the Bloc are at 8.9%.
Normally, the statistics wo…
Continue readingLayton Exercises Proper Politics
Jack Layton has his own views on politics like anyone else, and sure perhaps his opinion is regarded a little more than the average person, but he is the leader of the NDP so it makes sense. As the leader of one of the major political parties in Canada…
Continue readingPop The Stack: Can Iggy and Jack Learn to Work Together?
You should read this interesting article at Macleans by Peter C Newman on the trials of the Liberal leader this summer. It sounds like Iggy really has come a long way in understanding Canadian politics, good for him. (Of course, if they’d picked leader, ahem…Bob Rae…ahem, who already knew all this they could have recovered […]
Ignatieff appoints new House leader
We’re back everyone! We have been extremely busy these last few days but we are back for good now!
In political news today, a rather exciting day considering we are still in the summer session. The Liberal Party has released a statement announcing Ra…
Continue readingPop The Stack: A Simple Solution to the Gun Registry
It seems the opposition NDP and Liberals are dancing around each other, both wanting the same result yet shouting at each other about how to get there; and the Conservatives are providing the music they are dancing to. The Liberals support the gun registry in principle, but would introduce legislation if they form government to […]
Standing in the way of the Firearms Registry
I have tried to avoid righting anything about the gun registry in the interests of non-partisanship, but I feel that now is the time to weigh in on it. My colleague Chad is invited to argue this one with me if he so wishes.
The Firearms Registry was e…
Continue readingPop The Stack: Vote, Check, Stalemate
Just saw this post about NDP-Liberal Coalitions by Gregory Morrow over on democraticSpace and my comment was getting so long it might as well be a blog post. Greg makes the point that with all this talk of how the NDP and Liberals should form an alliance or coalition before or after the election one […]
Pop The Stack: Stockwell Gets Tough on Imaginary Crime
Oh Stockwell, you never let us down do you? Whenever we doubt for a moment that the Conservative government makes all its decisions based on gut instinct, emotion and irrational fear you’re there to remind of the true Reform-Alliance-Conservative way of thinking, like protecting Canadians from the “alarming” amount of unreported crime. You have to […]