About that tax credit
On the topic of the week. The tax credit to businesses to hire new Canadians is targeted at Canadian citizens here less than five years. 1,200, at that. When skilled…
Nancy Leblanc
Friday night
A good one from recent weeks and maybe a little bit appropriate given election mode which has set in this week! Have a good night.
Early days but good signs
A poll out tonight in the Ontario race shows a Liberal lead: A newly released Harris-Decima poll shows Dalton McGuinty's Ontario Liberals have an 11 point lead over Tim Hudak's…
Q & A with Tony Genco
Seems Tony Genco, PC candidate in Vaughan also shares the view that the PCs are a divided bunch: Q: Your nomination has spurred some division within the Conservative party itself,…
Canada falls from competitiveness Top 10
Noted from the Globe yesterday: Canada has continued its slide in business competitiveness, falling to 12th place from 10th last year in a World Economic Forum ranking of countries around…
Challenging the politics of division – part II
"Hudak’s politics of division" gets appropriately called out. First, on his hypocrisy: New immigrants to Ontario must wonder how they suddenly went from being valued Canadians, whose skills our economy…
Polling on the CBC’s budget
This just looks like plain old seeding of the ground for CBC budget cuts. A poll conducted by Abacus Data for QMI news agency appears in their pages today. QMI…
Challenging the politics of division
That's a good explanation of the much discussed proposal from the last 24 hours involving job training for new Canadians. Nice to see a politician stand up to the right…
More Tory hypocrisy: Dean Del Mastro version
A federal Conservative is stepping in to help Tim Hudak's PCs complete that Conservative tri-fecta they're looking for. The Ford-Hudak-Harper one. Here's what Peterborough Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro had…
Hudak hypocrisy
Noted today: The Liberals noted in a release that Hudak introduced proposed legislation in June 2010 titled Newcomers Employment Opportunities Act that included a 10 per cent wage subsidy for…
As the race begins in Ontario
The writ has still not dropped but the unofficial race is on. A few things this morning on the campaign as it begins...The Nanos leadership numbers are back, in the…
Epic win
A metaphor for good versus evil. Overcoming the stresses of life, whatever they may be. Raw survival skills at their best. The beauty of nature. Whatever you'd like to make…
New deals
This post from Ezra Klein today is U.S. oriented, of course, but it's also applicable to the political dynamic in Canada. Thought provoking: Much of what I'm hearing at the…
International talking points
David Cameron early Friday:Speaking on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Cameron insisted the UK had been "punching at our weight or even above our weight" in the conflict…
Late night
This video is really making the rounds this week and deservedly so! I'm reposting it here for those who still might not have seen it. It's just a great video,…
Harper’s remarks in Italy
Can be found here. Canadians supported the Libya mission and the ouster of Gaddafi is a great achievement. Further, no one quarrels with the words that Harper spoke as a…
Hudak’s new adviser
Meet Tim Hudak's new adviser, Michael Prell, imported from the U.S., a tea party supporter. He seems to have issues with government student loans (2:15 mark).
Toronto Danforth
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…
Today in Flaherty
He will speak: Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is expected to comment on the economy this morning, following the release of the latest data from Statistics Canada. Economists widely expect that…
Political party finance follow-up
Following up on yesterday's post here...in response to the Guardian report on how party finance reform might financially ruin Labour were a cap to be brought in, thereby undercutting its…