A new poll is out – released last night from Environics. According to their numbers, the NDP is tied with the Conservatives for popular support: The survey by Environics Research…
You can tell in your gut when you see a good attack ad. The Conservatives know how to make a good attack ad, this is clear. It’s one of the…
The New head-shills for EO are Jordan Graham and Jamie Ellerton. Jamie is an ex-Kenney aide who also did time with Tim Hudak. So behind the scenes puppet master Ezra…
First, with all due respect to party elders, the NDP has been movingto the centre for decades, most rapidly over the last six or sevenyears. The idea that we must…
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar In his latest post on Muskrat Falls, energy analyst Tom…
NDP interim leader Nycole Turmel gave her farewell press conference yesterday and declared victory. Um, okay – except you know that getting the government to vote on a bunch of…
I want to share what I think happened. As you can see from the Sixth Estate master list, now at 100 ridings and counting, there was quite a variety of…
Wired Magazine has an article about a new NSA spy center being constructed in Utah. It has the user friendly name Utah Data Center. Wired: A project of immense secrecy,…
Stay mad until every single BC Liberal politician is sent home in disgrace. If any single situation demonstrates conclusively that BC Liberals continue to hide from the truth, this is…
Ray Prins prepares to walk the plank, possibly with a little prodding by his premier. Unexpectedly departing Alberta Conservative politicians may be pretty much as illustrated. Below: Mr. Prins as…
Source: Government of Saskatchewan – Budget Key Facts and Figures While there is some stuff to talk about federally, namely Speaker Andrew Scheer’s potential conflict of interest with regards to…
A couple of Secret Service officers stationed outside the White House give a family of ducklings a lift… Maddow says that it’s “100 percent politics free” but I disagree. Obviously…
It may be that upwards of 70% of the NDP’s leadership votes are already in before the convention this weekend. But here’s another suggestion as to why it’s worth being…
DillingTheBert AllTheWayToTheTopVille Non-club member Robert Matas has an interesting story in The Globe today about how Christy Clark did her best (or should that be worst?), more than once, to…
I read with interest Professor Anke S. Kessler’s draft paper on the effect of Robocalls on the 2011 election.It reminded me that I had run a series of posts from…
Today, Toronto mayor Rob Ford bolted and ran when he saw that he could not win the day. He left a fractured and confused City Hall in his wake. This…
Within two months Canada’s ruling Conservative Party rejected government intervention in one labour dispute and leapt at the chance to intervene in another. In January a manufacturing plant owned by…
When we posted the photos of Shawn Macdonald on the blog after his arrest, he was often found along side another Blood & Honour member. We learned today that he…
What with the fog hanging over the island, and the usual run of depressing stories, it hasn’t been too easy to write about politics in Harperland this week. Or even…
I guess the spellcheck only works in English? @kenneyjason: Nowruz pirooz to all Canadians of Persian origin! http://is.gd/XpujMm Joyeuese Nowruz! http://is.gd/OalyAZ The adventures of a Franco Ontarian Viz Min Woman…
