Remember, nobody…not the Feds, not the Hudak Tories, not the Wynne Liberals…promised a penny of the funding required to actually transform the SRT replacement from an LRT to a train running underground…though they all sure did proclaim their love for Subways enough. And the T.O. city council vote returns everything
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: A Question For Scarborough-Guildwood Candidate Ken Kirupa
Liberals fire back at Ken Kirupa & accuse him of “deliberately misleading” voters about living in Scarborough-Guildwood for “so many years”— Don Peat (@reporterdonpeat) July 30, 2013 Its been impossible to find a record of a K or a Ken Kirupa residing within the riding boundaries. The folks covering his
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ottawa NDP Candidate Happy To Throw By-Election To Hudak Tories
Spoil factor never sounded so good: http://t.co/fr9YN5ncUR #OttSouth #onpoli— Bronwyn Funiciello (@BFuniciello) July 24, 2013 One would like to think she’s in it to win, but apparently not.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ontario By-Elections: Scott’s Gut
The esteemed Scott Tribe says: The OLP seems to be holding on a slight lead to the Toronto ridings (Scarborough and Etobicoke). They are probably ahead in Mcguinty’s old riding in Ottawa.Windsor will go NDP unless every NDP voter down there decides not to bother showing up to the polls
Continue readingImpolitical: A Kitchener-Waterloo note
If this had been known: Elizabeth Witmer put an end to speculation about why she stepped down as MPP after 22 years. She said her decision had nothing to do with politics. Her husband of 32 years has cancer. Might the by-election result have changed? Might voters have looked on
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Paul Donofrio: NDP Candidate. Rob Ford Supporter. Social Media Cautionary Tale.
Yesterday, I wrote about how the PC candidate in Kitchener-Waterloo, Tracey Weiler, has been running away from the PC leader Tim Hudak. In the riding of Vaughan, the ONDP and their leader Andrea Horwath, the opposite has been the case. Paul Donofrio, the ONDP candidate, has been completely ignored by
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