We’re still talking about that flyer that got them into so much trouble in October:
On Friday the PC Party held firm and refused to apologize. “We addressed this during the campaign,” Alan Sakach, the party’s director of communications, told…
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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- No, it’s no huge surprise that the Cons are planning to launch systematic attacks against labour as the next step after making it clear they’ll treat any strike or lockout as both illegitimate and entirely the f…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Grassroots at the Real Grassroots. What a Novel Idea
The Occupation of Wall Street protests are growing, and appear to have staying power. Without the corporate funding of the Tea Party, they started with just a small group and an idea.Taxpayers were forced to bail out Wall Street, and yet Wall Street no…
Continue readingTimmy Hudak Says That Liberal Dominated Toronto is “Not Healthy”! Also Doesn’t Seem To Acknowledge The NDP’s Existence
Oh dear! Poor Timmy never learned to be a good sport, did he? Poor young Miller, what a poor example she has for a parent! Poor loser speeches from Cons is nothing new, but Timmy has gone beyond outrageous here:
Tory Leader Tim Hudak says the Liberal minority government is too Toronto . . . → Read More: Timmy Hudak Says That Liberal Dominated Toronto is “Not Healthy”! Also Doesn’t Seem To Acknowledge The NDP’s Existence
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: The Fall and Rise of Dalton McGuinty
If I told you a few months ago there would be a picture of Dalton McGuinty waving on newspaper front pages October 7th, you’d have assumed it would be on the Sun, directly below a “GOODBYE! GOOD RIDDANCE!” headline .After all, when the unofficial campa…
Continue readingthe reeves report: Ontario votes to amble into the twenty-tens
For an election that was about as little as an election can possibly be about, last nights results brought more change to Ontario than many anticipated. And despite the set election dates we have in Ontario, Ontarians should not expect to wait until 2015 before casting their next provincial ballot. But they can be forgiven … Continue reading »
CalgaryGrit: Ontario Votes
Ontarians head to the polls today, with the two parties deadlocked a Liberal majority looming a PC victory likely the outcome still up in the air.I’ll be voting for Dalton McGuinty. No surprise there. But I still want to take a moment to explain why, b…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Get Out the Vote: Defeat the Loser Hudak
He waved his daughter like a flag, he used her like a cheap prop. While attacking programs aimed at protecting bullied gay children. Like a homophobic hog. He called new immigrants “foreigners.” Like some burning racist from Alabama. He vowed…
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Tory Candidate Blames Campaign Troubles on Tim Hudak
More Tory troubles. This time, however, it’s with an active Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario candidate who comes clean about how difficult it is to deliver her leader’s divisive and destructive message to voters.[London Free Press, Miller blam…
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: Why politics is stupid much of the time: the flip-flop attack
Trying to save is drowning campaign the day before e-day, Ontario C leader (I’ve redacted the P) Tim Hudak was in Mississauga today, where he used Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty’s decision to cancel a controversial local power plant project to frame th…
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: Belated random thoughts on political happenings
I’ve found myself too busy with work and what not lately to be blogging as much as I should be, so here’s some short random thoughts on recent events until I can write something longer. Which I promise to do soon. Ish. * Montreal’s crumbling Champlain …
Continue readingMore On Hudak and Abortion in Ontario
Well, I’ve been away for a while due to fact that I just started grad school three weeks ago and have been insanely busy, just getting into the swing of things. I’ve missed few interesting news items, including a debate between Joyce Arthur…
Continue readingthe reeves report: Ontario Votes 2011: Getting back to the Meat and Potatoes of Governing
Well, here we are. The Ontario provincial election is two days away, and the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives are locked in a dead heat, continuing to make election promises at the 11th hour; the House of Commons in Ottawa has been in session for weeks now with Stephen Harper’s Conservative majority firmly in power; and … Continue reading »
The Liberal Scarf: Hudak PC candidate: "Let’s not lose our identity. I’m tired of taking a back seat where the once majority is seemingly now a minority."
Edit: I forgot to mention in the first post that this is Chatham-Kent-Essex PC candidate Rick NichollsIn a letter in the editor of the Chatham Daily News on Febuary 27, 2008, this is what now Hudak PC candidate for Chatham-Kent-Essex had to say about m…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: "The best choice for Ontario’s challenges"
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/dalton-mcguintys-liberals-the-best-choice-for-ontarios-challenges/article2188213/That’s what The Globe & Mail says Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario Liberal team is in this election. With the global e…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Ontario Election Thoughts
Do what you can to ensure that Tim Hudak does not win anything in the upcoming Ontario election.
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: The Sun Won’t Come Out For Hudak
The Toronto Star’s endorsement of Dalton McGuinty shouldn’t surprise anyone. Yes, they were briefly the “Orange Star” this spring, but anyone who has read their Ontario election coverage saw this one coming a mile away.Today’s Globe endorsement is like…
Continue readingTimmy Hudak Sinks To Another All Time Low And Goes All Chuckles McVety
Yes, Boys ‘n’ girls, he really has. He’s gotten really disgusting! First, he’s been distributing this hideous and grossly misleading pamphlet, seen below, while campaigning in Brampton earlier this evening.
I’m getting a nasty sense of deja-vu when I look at this monstrosity, much like that ad ol’ Chuckles McVety had in . . . → Read More: Timmy Hudak Sinks To Another All Time Low And Goes All Chuckles McVety
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Tim Hudak Plays the Homophobia Card
Well I see the Con teabagger Tim Hudak is so desperate he is hauling out the homophobia card.Just as I told you last night.And remember, the people they are going after are bullied gay kids.The miserable cowards.Oh boy. It takes all kinds of people to …
Continue readingOntarians, Are You Getting a Sense of Deja-Vu?
It seems that Timmy Hudak is pulling a Stevie Spiteful. When in doubt, bring out the evul coalition bogey man!
Speaking at a Toronto hockey arena, Mr. Hudak repeatedly lumped the other two parties together and suggested any alliance would inevitably lead to higher taxes in the province. He said such a coalition . . . → Read More: Ontarians, Are You Getting a Sense of Deja-Vu?
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