This is a guest post by Ben Parfitt, resource policy analyst with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. It orginially appeared on policynote.ca. Well, I won’t back down No, I…
Here, making the case that Canadians should vote less based on perceptions of momentum (in terms of both policy and political positioning), and more based on where our parties and…
…and my SFH, who are getting together tonight, were the band who backed him the last time he took to a stage. It was at the Festival of Friends, in…
Your news links for today: Fred Ghahramani, Tech Entrepreneur, Donates $1 Million To Defeat Bill C-51 – Huffington Post Trans-Pacific Partnership text won’t be available before election – CBC News…
What the hell? The CBC reported yesterday that anti-Kinder Morgan pipeline protest uber-group, Forces of Nature, has decided to throw its support behind the Liberals and the NDP – and…
If you can vote in the Canadian election, you should. Rick Mercer, who has a great reputation of mocking Canadian politicians, has called every Canadian to vote this coming election…
News of Dan Grenier’s efforts reek of amateur politics rather than conspiracy. Here are my thoughts on why.
Although now retired as Canada’s longest-serving mayor, the redoubtable Hazel McCallion continues her life of public service: Meanwhile, over at Don Martin’s Power Play, watch the first two minutes of…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Robyn Benson offers her take on the importance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership as an election issue. Peter Mazereeuw notes that the nominal…
Recently we were writing about bumper-sticker campaigning. Nothing seems to say this better when six days before the election, the Ford brothers come out to help the Hair campaign in…
They say a good political cartoon can be worth a thousand words.So now that we know that Stephen Harper is in a foul mood, and snapping at all those around…
Suppose a judge orders you to do something that you find very hard to do – say bring your five year old to her father for a weekend and you…
http://www.people-results.com/ Carol Goar has an interesting column in today’s Toronto Star. She writes that this election has held a mirror up to us and forced us to face some hard…
As we approach the day of decision that will determine the fate of this country, I have been skimming through some of the thousands of posts I have written denouncing…
Look, I’m a Red Sox fan. I ain’t jumping’ on no bandwagon. But I’d fed the dogs, the wife was out with her girlfriends, the kids were all doing homework…
The Conservative “This election isn’t about me, Stephen Harper” ad that reached airwaves during Friday’s Blue Jays game is remarkable. It is impossible to look upon it as anything other…
So now that terrible headline might have grabbed your attention, UTM parameters! Urchin Tracking Module (known as UTM codes/tags/parameters by everyone who didn’t just Google what UTM stands for) are…
There are times you read stuff and you just have to wonder what brought that on. There’s Telegram editor Russell Wangersky explaining how newspapers are still relevant in the world…
One of the commenters on a Huffington Post about the Ford brothers showing up at a Harper Con rally: The Ford brothers were there to advise Harper on drugs and…
It's been the longest and ugliest election campaign I have ever seen. A monstrous bigot game that has made us look cheap and ugly, and shamed us in the eyes…
