First Results; Bottom Line
Mulclair comes in at the low end of predictipns;Topp exceeds expectations. Dewar drops out. Nash disappoints. Will she drop out? This may go a little longer than some folks thought.…
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NDP Convention: Day 2
Others have given a better sum up of yesterday’s events than I could, so I won’t bother. Beyond some erratic speechifying, the Dippers pulled off a pretty solid day 1.…
Peggy Nash Survives Major Teleprmpter Malfunction
Suddenly, the text started zipping up the screen then it stopped, wound back, and then started zipping by again. Peggy stumbled a bit, improvised re her collective bargaining victories, and…
Paul Dewar Is Apparently Going To Rap His Convention Speech
And he is not even slightly funky. Cullen was quite eloquent re Northern Gateway. Horwath got in a good line about Bob Rae knowing how to do what’s right by…
You Know The NDP Is In Town
..the TTC operators are extra surly. On my way to the convention center, a senior got on the bus in front of me with a couple of obsolete tokens. He…
Fox News North Gets Sued!
Sources tell me that Ottawa human rights lawyer Richard Warman has launched a defamation suit against Sun TV. His suit pertains to an episode of Michael Coren’s The Arena on…
Fox News North Dumped By Parliamentary Cable TV System
3 Days Ago! And nobody has even noticed! Don’t know how many can get to Mark Bourrie’s Facebook page. But you should try and friend the guy. He’s a media…
Pro-Northern Gateway Pipeline Astroturf Group Struggles To Find Warm Bodies
The Northern Gateway Alliance, a community coalition established to support the project, was in Grande Prairie for a reception to meet its local members and try to increase membership Wednesday…
Kathryn Marshall Demoted At Ethical Oil
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…
More Sackings At Sun TV?
Their full schedule page shows this: First Look was Neelam Verma; Newswire was Jacqui Delaney. Couple that with this tweet from Lorne Gunter (National Post): …and I think we have…
I’m In!
Got my confirming email yesterday, so that makes it official. I’ll be blogging NDP leadership convention this weekend. My prep work is almost complete, and I’m down to choosing which…
Sun News Tries To Raise Funds
Apparently nobody showed up for Ezra’s Freedom Weekend. You can deduce this from the fact that when you google “Ezra Levant” and “Freedom Weekend” you get basically nothing. Not a…
Nathan Cullen Testifies
The most LPoC friendly Dipper lays it out: proposal is simple: In the next campaign, the goal would be to choose joint candidates in the ridings now held by Tory…
Randy Hillier Has Left The Building
…or at least quit the OLA. Over this.
Expect A Lot More Of This Kind Of Thing
I am not sure that Bob Rae, given his obvious political skills, couldn’t transcend it with a good campaign performance. On the other hand, maybe not. Certainly, if there is…
Harper Brings Down The Hammer On Another Faith-Based Group
From Gruending: The hammer that had earlier landed on faith-based organizations such as KAIROS and the Mennonite Central Committee has now fallen on the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and…
Randy Hillier Breaks With Ontario Landowners Association
…over Crown Land Patents. While IANAL, some of the powers ascribed to these documents by people at the OLA–wave it in front of a government official trying to gain access…
New Keystone XL Route Still Likely To Attract Protests
From Inside Climate News: “A relatively modest jog around the Sandhills”—that’s how one TransCanada executive describes the Keystone XL oil pipeline’s new route through Nebraska, which is expected to be…
Meet Your New Sun Media Newspapers
This announcement is less than it seems: Sun Media is converting Smart Shopper products into editorial newspapers. Funny how the company doesn’t acknowledge that in its propaganda material.
Not Buying It Yet
Ivison’s latest on the Robocon scandal: The call that claimed to come from Elections Canada was sent out to 5,053 recipients in the 519 area code that covers Guelph, Kitchener-Waterloo,…