I know it’s going to be a rough week for the Conservatives, when there are election-levels of traffic coming to my blog for political information. I don’t know when I’ve had so many hundreds come through liblogs.ca, of all places, to my site. And that’s on the weekend! Canadians don’t
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The Scott Ross: Del Mastro: ‘Robocalls? Sure. Ridings exist? You’re crazy.’
On a February 28th episode of CBC’s Power & Politics Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro announced his party was investigating the Robocall Scandal; on that same show he went on to say he was not only not aware of possible fraud in a certain riding, but that he was unaware
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Ignatieff’s Liberals & Romney’s Republicans
The comparison between Canadian politics and American politics has been made more than once, the similarity of Liberal and Republican dominance in their respective countries during the last century is the most obvious. But in recent years Liberals and Republicans seem to be sharing more and more in common, Michael
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: The Day Stephen Harper Called Canada a Benign Dictatoship
“Canada’s system of one-party-plus rule has stunted democracy.” – Stephen Harper (and Tom Flanagan) Not long ago, Stephen Harper suggested that “although we like to think of ourselves as living in a mature democracy, we …Read More
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: NDP & the Decline of Labour
The NDP is certainly not asking whether it should abandon organized labour, but maybe organized labour should ask whether it abandon the NDP. What does it say about the New Democratic Party when it is the only political organization of unions, for unions and organized labour over the last thirty
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Vikileaks vs. RoboCon
Democracy is more important than the feelings of a hypocritical and creepy politician. http://ianmcbain.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/NOPE.jpg
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Robo-Gate: Harper Conservatives stole the 2011 election from the NDP
The New Democratic Party (NDP) suggested in a press conference today that the Conservatives rigged the May 2011 federal election against the Bloc Quebecois, NDP and Liberals. Call it election rigging western style. Apparently, RackNine …Read More
Continue readingFar and Wide: Weed As A Winning Wedge
From my perspective, there was a lot of misguided “scoffing” when the Liberals emerged from their Convention advocating marijuana be legalized. The passage was extrapolated into an indictment of not having compelling polices on issues that “really matter”, instead left to champion some quirky side issue that is clearly not
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Don’t Toews Me Bro – Conservatives Eying Email Spying
Minister Vic Toews is a nice guy, on Mark Horseman’s authority. I have to disagree, the evidence to the contrary is too strong. Nice guys don’t try to destroy the Internet as we know it, and subject innocent Canadians to higher ISP bills to fund government spying on legal communications.
Continue readingTerahertz: Analysts remarks reveal underlying bias, I say
Sometimes PostMedia News goes so far as to almost parody itself. One might even think that this article from the Vancouver Sun could have been written by Fox News North Sun News. Justin Trudeau betrays his political immaturity and narcissism in suggesting that his commitment to a united Canada is
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Liberals Riding High in Quebec?
There’s been a lot of buzz lately over the small snippets of a recent federal Forum poll that shows the Liberals gaining steadily on the NDP, especially in the province of Quebec where according to Forum, the Liberals lead with 28% of the vote, the NDP second with 25%, the
Continue readingTrashy's World: Ontario PCs…
… give the Liberals another election victory! Great news that the PC’s walking-talking campaign disaster has been given the nod to continue to “lead” the party… probably into another election! Awesome! That is just about the best present that the Liberals could hope to receive! They get to trounce Hudak
Continue readingRandom Ranting Raving and Ratings: Harper Conservatives on Liberal’s Plan for OAS – 2004
Back in 2004, the Harper Conservatives accused the Paul Martin Liberals of having a “hidden agenda” to raise the age to qualify for the Old Age Security to 67. The Conservative Party of Canada had acquired the information on the Liberals through access to information. As far as I… ..
Continue readingBlunt Objects: The State of Play in #TorDan
Announced this week, Toronto-Danforth voters will head to the polls on March 12th 19th to vote for a new MP after the death of NDP Leader Jack Layton, who had represented the riding since 2004 with ever-increasing percentages of the vote in four successive elections. Eric Grenier created a pretty
Continue readingFar and Wide: The Dope On Marijuana
Perhaps more interesting than the Liberals- at least their assembled delegates- advocating legalization of marijuana, has been the reaction to said passage. I sense some hostility, revolving around the notion that Liberals are misguided to highlight this issue, when so many other “top of mind” concerns exist with the electorate.
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Reflections on convention and moving forward
I’ve had some computer difficulties the last couple weeks, combined with work and school keeping me busy, so only now do I have a chance to reflect on the LPC convention. First off, congratulations to Mike Crawley and his team for a great winning campaign for President. I had a
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: The Liberal Identity
The Liberal Party lost the last election not because they didn’t know what they stood for, but because they stopped looking. After the last election many party officials, pundits and members of the public claimed the Liberals lost because they didn’t stand for anything, that Liberals didn’t even know who
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: No threat #nlpoli
In a meeting of the committee that manages the business affairs for the House of Assembly, the Tories approved an additional $150,000 for the Liberals. The New Democrats got nothing, even though they have a significantly larger caucus. Check this CBC report for a good synopsis. The Tories used a
Continue readingFar and Wide: Red Wave Envelops Canada
Well not quite, but since the name of the game in the short term is perceived viability, Liberals will take the recent spate of polling. Three polls out, all offer similar trends, Liberals will a slight uptick, NDP down, reinforcing recent narratives. Perhaps of biggest concern to the NDP, CROP
Continue readingTerahertz: Brand politics
Dan Gardner’s latest article compares the success of the Conservatives and failure of the Liberals in terms of their basic branding message. He argues that one of the keys to the success of the Conservatives is that they have identified and sold their brand as “small government and individual liberty.”
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