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Accidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your long weekend.- Thomas Walkom highlights the message being sent to students as to what workers should expect in the years to come. And it’s well worth reflecting on whether the problem lies precisely with the politicians s…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Ontario NDP still rising in the polls
Hudak’s lead shrinks, poll shows – thestar.comAll the polls since Jan. 2011 have shown the Ontario NDP steadily rising (Nanos, Ipsos, Forum) from a low of 13% in January, to a high, so far, of 24% in the latest Forum Research poll.Latest Forum Resear…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to end your weekend.- Brian Topp points out the biggest difference between the Parliamentary reaction to the Harper Cons’ attack on Canada Post workers and previous overreaches by the Con government: Before May 2, there would hav…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Using U.S. Stock Photos Over CanCon To
…express your solidarity with Ontario workers isn’t the worst thing you could do. But it’s the sign of a shoddy campaign.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On ripple effects
I’ve noted before that the main advantage for incumbents – and thus the main obstacle to substantial change – is the perception on the part of potential challengers that it’s not worth mounting the effort to compete. But it would seem to follow that wh…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Ontario NDP would cap gas prices
New Democrats will stop price gouging at the pump: Horwath « Ontario NDP
An NDP government in Ontario would set weekly price caps on the cost of gasoline.
Five provinces and many U.S. states have some sort of price cap on gasoline. The benefits have …
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Ontario NDP would role back tax cuts for corporations
New Democrats will scrap McGuinty’s corporate tax rate giveaway: Horwath « Ontario NDPIt’s been proven time and again that giving tax cuts to corporations doesn’t create jobs for Canadians and doesn’t boost the economy. Corporate tax cuts only boost…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Fordmania/Slight-Dipper-Mania in Toronto
As noted by BigCityLib, a Forum research poll for the City of Toronto shows some relatively interesting numbers today, both on the municipal and provincial scene.
Let’s start with Rob Ford’s approval ratings:
As you can see, there isn’t a huge dip in…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Ontario NDP on the rise as an election looms in Ontario
Ontario provincial NDP has momentum – The Globe and MailNanos polling shows that since Feb. 2011, the NDP has risen 6 points from 13% to 19%.During this same time period, the Conservatives have dropped 2 points to 41% and the Liberals have dropped 5 po…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Provincial nomination progress, NDP and Greens
Neither the ONDP or GPO have nominated a particularly large slate so far, so I combined them here.The NDP haven’t nominated a whole lot of candidates so far as I can tell, and they so far seemed to have focused on the GTA. I could only find one notice …
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