The Liberals pledge to offer $10 000 in tax credits to Ontario businesses that hire new immigrants is spot-on. It might just be the cure for a stubborn cancer called “Canadian experience”. Foreign-trained immigrants with professional creden…
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The Progressive Right: Tory Syndrome, the Follow Up
Well, it appears that Tim Hudak supporters are attacking former Progressive Conservative leaders, instead of Tim Hudak himself. I’m not entirely sure I’ve seen a sitting Progressive Conservative MPP, standing for re-election, attack one of th…
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Tory Syndrome
Four years ago this month, a sizeable chunk of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative supporters already had their knives out and sharpened for John Tory. This was based upon the belief that Tory was not a true conservative like Tim Hudak and tha…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Tories lead Ont. Libs by just 3.5% – Nanos
Though they’re both down from their last poll thanks to an NDP jump (or, possibly just a resettling, given that Nanos had them lower than other pollsters before) Nanos has the race in Ontario at just 3.5% difference between the two main parties.The num…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Ontario Student Debt
Last week, the CCPA released a paper by David Macdonald and Erika Shaker entitled Under Pressure: The Impact of Rising Tuition Fees on Ontario Families. The paper does a good job of explaining which households have been most impacted by rising tuition fees in Ontario. Points made in the paper include the following: -In light […]
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Ford Nation is now a little clam. And, Tim Hudak is as out of touch as ever
Toronto News: Hudak plunges into dangerous liaison with Rob Ford – thestar.com
According to the Toronto Star, Rob Ford’s popularity has been steadily since the election in Oct. 2010.
Ford’s popularity is sinking, according to polling data, as his h…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Ontario NDP continue to rise in the polls
Ontario Liberals close in on Hudak’s Conservatives: poll | News | National PostThe Ontario NDP continue to rise in the polls. In the latest Forum Research poll, support for the NDP has risen to 26%. Previously, in Forum polls, they were at 24% in lat…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Green Energy Proposals Part I: An Overview
With a variety of different green energy proposals floating around, it is worth recalling what the various schemes are and what their advantages and disadvantages are. In Part I, I look at an overview of the particular at the systems being implemented …
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Buskerfest
Where I was Thursday. I’m not very good at writing art review-style critiques using high-flown language, but I can say that I enjoyed Buskerfest a lot. There’s a bit of an edge to the performers. They generally live on the margins. They swear freely, even with children present. (O the horrors!) They’re tattooed and pierced, […]
The Liberal Scarf: Hudak’s municipal downloading scheme would stick Ontario families with a $500 million bill
The OYL had a very successful “Remember the 90’s” campaign launch party last night, and Tim Hudak at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario meeting this week showed that he was ready to take Ontario families back to the 90’s by cancelling the Dal…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Liberals built this!
www.liberalsbuiltthis.ca
Had a great time this weekend taking part in the province wide Ontario Young Liberal blitz showing the great investments that the Ontario Liberal Party has made in families and communities across the province. Be it new school…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The Power of Provinces and the Importance of the 2011 Ontario Election
When Stephen Harper won a majority in the federal election he did this first and foremost by attracting a large body of voters who had not voted for him in the past and may not in the future. Discussions of the political seppuku committed by Liberals a…
Continue readingHudak to help students: Can we trust him?
Yesterday, PC Leader Tim Hudak announced that he would provide more funding for Ontario students, by diverting funds away from the Ontario Trillium Scholarship program.The Ontario Trillium Scholarship program was created by the McGuinty government in 2…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Deep thought
Nothing says open and accountable government like a little-known fiscal commission labouring in the shadows to decree what public services will get slashed and/or sold off. That is, unless it’s also timed to to override the results of an election.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: The Double Whammy of Defunding Universities
As I’ve blogged about here, federal funding for post-secondary education (PSE) in Canada is decreasing. Between 1985-1986 and 2007-2008, annual federal cash transfers to Ontario for PSE (in constant 2007 dollars) decreased from roughly $1.4 billion to just under $1 billion. (Yet, during that same period, PSE enrolment in Ontario increased by more than 60 percent). And as I’ve written about […]
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: How much do you notice the politics of your fellow city dwellers?
How much does the political leanings of your fellow city dwellers leak into your day-to-day living experience? 
The Liberal Scarf: ONDP candidate mocks child abuse allegations in Catholic Church and posts dirty jokes on Twitter – Classy guy
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/08/17/facebook-101-loose-lips-hurts-election-campaign
Is this why Andrea Horwath is going to such extreme efforts to hide her “team”? Less than 3 weeks before the start of the writ, and the ONDP website still has zero me…
Continue readingThe problem with Hudak
Hudak has a number of problems, the largest being trust. People don’t trust him. In particular, women don’t trust him. In a new poll, Nanos Research concluded that only 1 in 4 men trust Hudak, and even less, only 1 in 5, women trust Hudak.Let me say th…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Ontario Liberal announcements put Ontario families first
In the past couple of days, the Ontario Liberals have come up with some solid policy announcements that show how Liberals are committed to delivering results, not reckless rhetoric for Ontario families.
At Summer Fling last weekend, I was proud to sta…
Continue readingTrashy's World: OK. So this is a good idea.
NO WAY that the IQ-challenged Tim Hudak came up with this!
It would be kind of akin to Rob Ford putting his shoes on the right feet in one try…
But still – kudos to the Ont. PC lemming who came up with this…
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