Just about the only thing that all parties and observers can agree upon about the upcoming Ontario election is that the high vote percentage gained by the Green Party of Ontario (GPO) in 2007 will not be maintained in 2011. And it is expected to drop for a number of reasons, but not all of … Continue reading »
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RedBedHead: Toronto: Mayor Ford Retreat, Tory Vote Meltdown
Ah, I love the smell of self-inflicted Tory panic on a Monday morning. It seemed only a year ago that things were heading towards Tories at all levels of government. Harper was riding high – and would soon win a majority – Ford won a majority of vot…
Continue readingOntario PC using Conservative tactic of attack ads during US football games
Nothing says Conservative more than political attack ads during US football games. It says everything you need to know about the right on so many levels. Smart, though.Did the Ontario Liberals learn anything from the Conservatives’ anti-Iggy ads played…
Continue readingHow the Liberals lost Toronto
The Star has a reasonable accounting of why the Liberals lost Toronto. The story is really about how the Liberals lost Canada. It comes down to two things: immigrants were wooed by Conservatives while Liberals ignored them; Liberals don’t know shit abo…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Will Rob Ford Put an End to Blissful Ignorance?
On February 15, 1983, the New York Times ran a headline: Reagan Misstatements Getting Less Attention.Ronald Reagan was not only the first American President to bring the Religious Right into his administration, but he also launched an era of …
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Ontario Liberals protecting the environment and moving Ontario forward
Ontario Liberals are taking the next steps to safeguard our environment for Ontario families. Liberals are protecting precious water resources for future generations with a Great Lakes Protection Act that will be the next chapter in clean water for Ont…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford’s War: The Fight Back Begins
His ghastly face stares out from newspaper boxes all over the city, like Big Bubbah. The message couldn’t be clearer, or more urgent.Rob Ford has declared war on us. Now we must declare war on him, and the City Council stooges who are helping him …
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: First We Take New Jersey … Then On-tar-i-o! Tim Hudak’s New Theme Song?
Martin Regg Cohn had an excellent column in the Star on Monday: Hudak’s taking Ontarians for a ride.In it he questions the logistics of the Ontario Conservative’s Changebook Platform. I perused that and it reminded me of another questionable platform…
Continue readingImpolitical: Hudak visits Toronto Star ed board
It’s too bad that the Star only taped just under 3 minutes of the meeting they had with Tim Hudak. The Ottawa Citizen met with Dalton McGuinty the other day and their video shows the entire meeting, running just about an hour. So it would have been nic…
Continue readingImpolitical: Hudak’s public sex offender registry gambit rebuked
A Globe editorial aligns itself with the criticisms that were laid out by the Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner. Hudak’s proposal to make public a sex offender registry is a cheap vote getting emotional appeal that doesn’t hold up: But the proposa…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Tim Hudak Exposed as a Fraud. Again.
Uh oh. It looks like the Con teabagger Tim Hoo Hoo Hudak has one more reason to look confident worried deeply disturbed. After having been caught using ringers.Ms. Raheb told the Windsor Star that her group was approached by Mr. Hudak’s campaign to a…
Continue readingImpolitical: Ear to the ground
In the news, a few headlines from today and the last 24 hours or so…”Euro zone crisis? It’s more like Armageddon.” It is now morphing into a banking crisis, one with the potential to plunge the European and global economies into a full-blown recess…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Ugly Cons and the Broken Liberals
OK. Let me get this straight eh? The Con smear machine that destroyed Ignatieff and Dion, goes after Brian Topp.“Topp is a union boss and has deep union ties,” they say in a memo to MPs and party faithful. “How could Brian Topp speak on beha…
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Ontario New Democrats Steer Clear of US-Style Dirty Politics
“Unofficial political” websites are the new tools for smearing dirt on opponents. Both Tim Hudak’s Progressive Conservatives and Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario Liberals have them. PC: www.ontariansneednotapply.com and www.liberalreview.ca….
Continue readingExcited Delirium: File Complaints About Tim Hudak’s Robo-Calls
Stop Robo-Calls from the Tim Hudak Conservatives
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: It’s a Good Thing Tim Hudak Wasn’t Around When Plavnice Podatransk Came to Canada
The latest Tim Hudak ad focuses on his grandfather, a Czech immigrant who “believed in the value of hard work”. There is even a close up shot of his immigration papers dated 1898.All I can say is that it was a good thing that Tim Hudak wasn’t around th…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Tim Hudak’s Kamikaze Run
Hand’s up those who think it is politically smart to go into a city with 9.1% unemployment and tell the voters he is going to cut 200 more jobs? Also, who thinks it is good policy to cut government spending in a recession? Tim Hudak that’s who. Good lu…
Continue readingTrashy's World: This is good news…
… for my MPP…
Not so good for Hudak and Hillier and their merry band of tax evaders!
Let’s hope that the momentum carries into next month… and it likely will if the PC’s (minus the “progressive” part) insist on…
BigCityLib Strikes Back: Tim Hudak Hires THEM To Do Campaign Dirty Work
Hiring call-centers in News Brunswick, when Ontario phone spammers are going hungry? Whose side is the Hudak campaign on? Why is he sending push polling and dark ops jobs out of province? Does Tim Hudak hate Ontario?PS.&nbs…
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