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(alternatively titled: "Reason number 457 to loathe and despise Peggy Nash")
Mark
Pumped
The Toronto Star reports on the latest tit-for-tat between Stephen Harper and Jack Layton about who's to blame for current and future gas price hikes:"Layton responded by saying gas prices…
Quotable
William Kaplan, in today's Globe and Mail, on the media's reaction to Stephen Harper's limited campaign access, and restriction to only five questions per day:"The only astonishing thing is that…
Debate post script
For the second night in a row, I didn't watch the Leaders' debate (there was an all-candidates debate in York Centre tonight which featured an equally jarring Tory candidate, but…
And now, the French debate…
Tonight's French language leaders debate will almost certainly attract a smaller audience than yesterday's - language comprehension being one reason and hockey playoffs, another - but it is likely to…
A grain of salt
Noteworthy in this Globe and Mail article describing the results of the latest Nanos Research daily tracking poll, is that in every single region, except the Prairies, every single lead…
Links for junkies
In absence of generating any of my own content, here are a few links that I'm reading regularly as the federal election campaign unfolds. I thought I'd pass them along...CBC's…
Stephen Harper, on responsibility
My communications staff limit questions, not me...The local campaigns set my events, not me...It's our local candidates who hire discredited and fired employees, not me...The RCMP threw them out, not…
The Canada Pension Plan
Everyone under the age of 60 should read this article. "Most of today’s retirees did not contribute enough when they were working to pay for the cost of the benefits…
On the teevee (II)
Here's the link to my first foray into Mississauga cable TV. Our panel on the federal election had no-shows from both the Greens and Tories, but host Ben Mercer and…
On the teevee…
Given the ususal content found here, I realize that they're probably aren't a heck of a lot of regular visitors to this blog who watch Rogers Cable in Mississauga. But…
Electoral financing reform
From the CBC's website, my pal (and pretty smart guy) David Herle on Harper's proposal to scrap the current public subsidization of political parties. "The government of the day should…
Campaign vandalism – a.k.a. "Douchebaggery"
I am reluctant to use words like "douchebag" in daily conversation. There are, and have been, a number of politicians for whom I have little regard, but for whom I…