At the very least, the media finally seems to have picked up on the reality that all Canadian national parties include some former Bloc members and/or sovereigntists in their ranks. But that leads to the next obvious problem: that it’s scolding the NDP…
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Accidental Deliberations: On broken systems
Let’s add one more to the list of theories as to how the other parties’ pearl-clutching over interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel may actually play to the NDP’s advantage – and this time with a far more immediate effect.
Keep in mind that the last nationa…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Angus Reid Poll is Good News for NDP…. Or Is It?
Regular readers here know of my criticisms of Angus Reid which, from time to time, are proven exceptionally right. Their most recent poll, however, is kind of a mixed bag – especially for the New Democrats.But first, the topline numbers:CON: 39%NDP: 31…
Continue readingEnglish Canada and MSM Blind to Turmel Affair
thestar.com iPhone : English-speaking Canada blind to Turmel affair Filed under: NDP, Nycole Turmel, Sovereignty
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On distinguishing factors
Lest there be any doubt, it’s still ridiculous to pretend that any person’s past involvement in a Quebec sovereigntist party should be taken to disqualify that person from Canada’s public discourse. But for those looking to facilitate the Cons’ attacks…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.
– On the Nycole Turmel front: Christopher Majka cheers the fact that the NDP has managed to encourage so many more Quebeckers to see a place for themselves in Canadian federal politics. Michael Taube doesn’t see an…
Continue readingTurmel Scandal Enters Week 2
The “Government In Waiting” is off to a slow start. The parliamentary session has not even begun for the fall, and already the major issue isn’t any oversight of the government, it is a dispute over their own new chosen interim leader. NDP …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Tom Mills challenges the Cons to show any job creation whatsoever as a result of their non-stop corporate tax slashing:The thing is, if corporate tax cuts really do create jobs, Flaherty should be able to dem…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- L. Aaron Wright nicely contrasts the fabricated hysteria over Nycole Turmel against the choices of the Libs and Cons:Where was the outrage when Stephen Harper tried to recruit Mario Dumont of the ADQ in Quebe…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Welcome to the official opposition…
…and all the anonymous news reports that come with it:NDP ‘unease’ surrounds Turmel’s Bloc secrecyThere’s a serious unease in the NDP over interim leader Nycole Turmel’s memberships in two Quebec sovereigntist parties, a party staffer said Thursday.T…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Gerald Caplan calls out the non-stop and substance-free gotcha politics facing the NDP since the public started recognizing that it had a legitimate chance to form government: It never stops and never will. The momen…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Perfesser Dave explains the problems with separatists in the Canadian government
Bryan Mulroney having fun with his confidant and Quebec lieutenant Lucien Bouchard, one of many Conservative separatists who have spent time in the House of Commons. Below: Perfesser Dave; Western sovereignist Stephen Harper.Some stories are just too c…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Last Word On The Turmel Fiasco
To the MSM, give your collective heads a shake. You have been played. You chased after the shiny rather than using your heads (or whatever the hell Rob Silver uses for thinking). You have now said to soft nationalists that they have no right to change …
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Yup
Turmell is much more fun than that boring old economy.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on the silliness of this week’s hullabaloo over Nycole Turmel’s past Bloc membership – and the lessons we can stand to learn about Quebec politics in response.For further reading…- Marianne White also treats this week’s news as a teachable mome…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: A Neocon Barbeque Cooks up a Plate of Ignorance
If you are wondering what Stevie is up to this summer, besides bombing for oil, wonder no more. He’s cooking up neocon burgers, hold the lettuce, with his buddy Rob Ford.I hope their insurance covers having both those men at the same event. Talk about …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Liberal Lynching of Nycole Turmel
As the Liberals continue their fevered assault on Nycole Turmel. No doubt hoping that out of her ashes, their shrunken party will rise again, like some fleshless phoenix. Or some charred scarecrow.Even as they help fuel comments like the…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Saint Turmel
The new talking points: she joined all those Que. separatist groups to draw them into the Cdn. mainstream. Not a bad alibi, actually: like joining the Hell’s Angels so as to bring them to Jesus. We’ll see how it works.
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Turmel Turmoil
We all knew the NDP’s flirtation with the separatists would emerge as an issue at some point during the 41st Parliament. I just don’t think anyone expected it to move to the forefront quite so rapidly:Interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel says she’s a f…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Martin Patriquin offers up the definitive response to the pearl-clutching over Nycole Turmel’s Bloc membership (italics in original, bold added):(H)ere’s the wee nuance that seems lost on the rest of…
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