Announced this week, Toronto-Danforth voters will head to the polls on March 12th 19th to vote for a new MP after the death of NDP Leader Jack Layton, who had represented the riding since 2004 with ever-increasing percentages of the vote in four successive elections. Eric Grenier created a pretty
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Blunt Objects: Two Candidates Declared For Toronto-Danforth Liberals
According to the T-D Liberals, Grant Gordon and Trifon Haitas have been officially declared as candidates for the Liberal nomination in the upcoming Toronto-Danforth by-election to replace Jack Layton. They’ll be going up against rookie Dipper candidate Craig Scott. 2008 and 2011 candidate Andrew Lang also seems confirmed to be
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Thomas Walkom puts the Cons’ anti-environmental hysteria in perspective by noting how our cabinet ministers are going out of their way to sound like the most fringy of lunatic Tea Partiers: America’s Exxon Mobil, Britain’s BP, France’s Total E&P, China’s SinoCanada Petroleum Corp.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stephen Maher and Barbara Yaffe have learned to be duly skeptical of the Cons’ motives when it comes to Senate patronage. But John Ibbitson still has a ways to go – as he’s apparently still buying Con spin about new provinces holding
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to end your weekend. – Chris Selley rightly points out that for all the damage the Cons can do in a term of majority government, we shouldn’t overstate how much of it is irreversible. And more importantly, while it’s well worth putting time and effort into defending the
Continue readingImpolitical: Toronto-Danforth goings on
The NDP candidates are lining up. There are two now, a former assistant to Jack Layton, Claire Prashaw, and as of today, an Osgoode Hall law professor, Craig Scott. Not running, and really the big news of the day, is one Brian Topp: NDP leadership hopeful Brian Topp has ruled
Continue readingImpolitical: Toronto Danforth watch
As we know, Harper has yet to call the by-election in Toronto Danforth. Given that we’re nearing the end of November, it’s unlikely to be called now until early in the new year. It must be called by February 26th. The last prominent mention of the by-election came around October
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Note on the eventual Toronto-Danforth by-election…
I agree with something posted awhile back by Globe and Mail columnist Robert Silver, that the upcoming by-election is a chance to do something different – specifically, the attempt at an “open primary” in the riding.The concept is simple: anyone puts t…
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Reviewing this item in the Globe, Taber’s piece, “Liberals hope to paint Layton’s Toronto riding red again,” it’s not clear how much of the hype there on Liberals possibly taking back the riding is Taber’s framing or Apps’ quotes. Because Apps’ quot…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: A more local look at successors to Jack Layton
Plenty of speculation so far about potential successors to Jack Layton as federal NDP leader, but I haven’t seen much about potential NDP candidates to follow Jack in Toronto-Danforth, so I’ll take a look at some potential NDP candidates for a by-elect…
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