How many people play The Sims? Are you going to create a character called Pierre Poutine? Tracey Kent @TraceyKent @4got @tondamacc A CIMS user cannot make changes, run queries on any other ridings but their own. Access approval is hierarchical – @TraceyKent @4got @tondamacc That’s incredibly IMPORTANT information. It’s
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Politics and its Discontents: Voter Suppression – March 11 Toronto Protest
As I suspect is the case with most political bloggers, I offer commentary and provide links to important stories because I love my country and am very concerned about the direction in which it is heading. As well, I am deeply offended when abuse of political power occurs. And, like
Continue readingImpolitical: RMG call centre in Gatineau used during election?
Noted from a report this week in Le Droit, three Ottawa area Conservative candidates also hired RMG during the May 2011 federal election: Les campagnes de trois candidats conservateurs de la région d’Ottawa ont versé tout près de 30 000 $ à l’une des firmes de sollicitation téléphonique soupçonnées d’avoir
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tory Story Changes Again
Now they’re as confused as anyone about the Guelph robocalls. And in one sense Dean Del Mastro is the perfect advocate for this position; he does indeed seem very confused. PS. It was the Tories that told everyone that Mike Sona was suspect number one. Just to be clear on
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCon: Pierre Poutine Recording, Production Order Warrant for RackNine, CPC Payments
– @TheGorryDetails: I agree with Stephen [Taylor], where is the hard evidence? audio tapes, billing info? – kady o’malley @kady: Requires production orders. I hope you can use this post as a reference in the future, for source documents (and more) listed in the title. Audio of Poutine’s recording
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Are Canadians ‘Mad As Hell’ Over Voter Suppression Crimes?
Read a cross-section of opinion from the Star’s letters and decide for yourself. This one from the Guelph Mercury also merits scrutiny. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Harper’s Fondest Fantasy
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Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The blogosphere is now out in force in chasing down new angles on Robocon. Dave pointed out that the misleading calls look to be linked to a “target seat management unit” set up by the Cons’ central brain trust; Saskboy connected that same
Continue reading14 Cons conned voters from US Front Porch Strategies
Looks like Stephen Harper and his puppet, the hapless Dean Del Mastro, have been caught in yet another lie. Fourteen Conservatives have been found to have used an Ohio telemarketer, the amusingly-named Front Porch Strategies (emphasis mine). The prime minister and his parliamentary secretary, Peterborough MP Dean Del Mastro, claimed
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Star Exposes Another Harper Lie
More and more, people are seeing the bald mendacity of the Harper regime. Despite their claims of electoral probity and refusal to use U.S. firms in their campaigning, it turns out that 14 Conservative (will the claim be made that they were rogues?) did exactly that by signing on with
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboKhan And Other Images
I hope you can make use of some of these cheeky images that could help depict the RoboCon Robocalls scandal that is sweeping the nation. Hey, our democracy is a worldwide joke, so we may as well laugh a little. Beats crying. RoboKhaaaan! *Saskboy takes a quick bow for the
Continue readingImpolitical: About those election call tapes being reviewed
This was a report from CBC initially posted yesterday afternoon: “Election call tapes under review by Conservatives.” The report was last updated early this afternoon. Here’s the key excerpt: The Conservative Party is reviewing tapes of every call made by the Responsive Marketing Group call centre in Thunder Bay, Ont.,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Clearly The Best Way To Squelch
…the whole Robocon scandal is to sue the loudest MP in the HOC AND flip Stephen Taylor the legal docs on the down-low so as to blow your whole case out of the water if it ever DOES go to court. I mean, most judges really hate it when your real intent
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Exactly How Dangerous Is Harper?
That is the title of a piece written by Gerald Caplan, in which he opines that the Harper Conservatives are like nothing Canada has ever seen before, a party that refuses to follow the customs and practices of past governments, a party that sees politics as a form of warfare
Continue readingAnyone else gobsmacked by Postmedia attention to Robogate?
I’ve been a taken a little by surprise at the attention paid by Postmedia to the Robo-call scandal. While the Globe & Mail and Sun Media rest on the sidelines, choosing to bolster Conservative claims of innocence and misdirection, and CBC continues its lame tact of false equivalence, the National
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Now This Is Getting Really Frightening
Despite the steadfast denials of Harper and his functionaries, along with the stalwart efforts of Dean Del Maestro at diverting public attention away from voter suppression crimes, Elections Canada reports that it has received over 31,000 complaints from Canadians reporting attempts to subvert their vote. Even the true believers who
Continue reading31,000 Robo-call complaints. 31,000!
“No, this is not a Robo-call. I’m a real human being. Don’t hang up! Fudge, that keeps happening.” That number will surely grow larger. Elections Canada assures it can handle the growing number of complaints. I’m wondering if EC can also be independent enough to withstand pressure from the Conservatives.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: A Point Worth Noting
Keith Beardsley writes: Canadians are tuned into this story because they get these types of calls all the time. They understand the issue. Who hasn’t been called at the dinner hour by some type of telemarketer? Even if they weren’t called in the last election the general public can relate
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCalls Resolution? General Election Will Happen
It’s time for a wild prediction, based on information I have, interpretation of law and political power, a touch of math, and a hint of guts (plus a reversal of my earlier skepticism in the power of RoboCon). Here’s a potential scenario for how the election fraud scandal the Conservative
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Defending Democracy – “Bravely”
Some people like me have been keenly following the RoboCon scandal where an anonymous Pierre Poutine, using a burner cellphone, placed misleading robodialled calls misdirecting voters away from their real polling stations. This is a clear violation of the Election Act, and Poutine knew this, which is why they used
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