Did Mr. David Akin Really Attend…
. …The Manning Centre’s Pre-Election Campaign School? First off, remember this letter to The Globe’s editor to UVIC public-admin guy John Fryer earlier this week: In January, 2010, my UVic…
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Christy And The Cons…If You Can’t Beat ‘Em Join ‘Em….
TheManning-UpOfThe… RepublicOfBananastanVille Hey. Look who’s going way, way out for breakfast this morning according to a nice bit o’ proBlogging by the VSun’s JFowlie: Premier Christy Clark will be in…
Fake Voters?…..In Eglinton?!
AllTheFraudThatFits TheManning-UpRepublicOfBananastanVille From the TStar (but only because the MoCo refuses to post a text version): Alleged voting irregularities in the 2011 federal election have taken a new twist with…
Scapegoats?….In Nipissing?!!!
ThePhonesKnow InAndOutAndInAndOutAndInAndOutVille Any second now, I reckon. After all, the last I checked Nipissing-Temiskaming is not Guelph: OTTAWA—Federal elections investigators are probing robo-calls in another riding — Nipissing-Temiskaming in northern…
Another Fine Tribute To Our Friend Mary…
ThereWereNoMice LikeMary’sAnon-O-MiceVille This one is from Bill Tieleman. And it starts like this: BC Mary was one of Canada’s most tireless, prolific, dedicated and dogged bloggers – with an absolute…
Is There Nothing The Harper-Cons Won’t Do With Phones?
Non-StopBadgeringIsThem ‘Ethical’FundraisingVille From Dammit Janet!: “It appears that the CPC has engaged in other scam practices with phones. It’s not enough that companies were paid (more on that below) to…
"…Complaints have been filed with Saanich police, the RCMP and Elections Canada…"
omplaints? WeDon’tNeedYourStinkin’ComplaintsVille The header above, is how we ended a recent post about patient-zero in the RoboCall saga. It is a story about one riding, Saanich Gulf-Islands, where fraudulent robo-calls…
This Is What (A) ‘Democracy’ (Centre) Looks Like.
AllTheTrainingThatFits EthicalVoterSuppressionVille If this is for real which, according to Dave, we have no reason to think that it is not, this is much, much worse than anyone has imagined…
How The World Is Supposed To Work
OurFriendForever BCMaryVille Norm Farrell captured an important tribute to BC Mary today: Today in British Columbia’s Legislative Assembly, Leonard Krog, Opposition Critic For The Attorney General, said this: “I rise…
Did The Generals Who Unleashed The Segretti Army Forget That…
. ….The People Whose Franchise They Were Trying To Suppress Were NOT Low Information Voters? When I listened to Dean Del Maestro on Evan Solomon’s radio show on Saturday I…
BC’s One True, Best Blogger Is Gone
For Mary, wherever we may find her. Because both her aim and her heart were always true. (many, many tributes to follow I’m sure – Mine will be just one…
And What, Precisely, Did…
AllTheFraudulentFrontGroupsThatFit SubversionVille …The ‘Progressive Voters Association Of Saanich Gulf-Islands’ Do? Well. They called up voters in Saanich Gulf-Islands on election eve and told them to vote for a non-existent NDP…
What, Exactly, Is….
AllTheFrontGroupsThatFit SubversionVille …The ‘Progressive Voters Association Of Saanich Gulf-Islands’? Apparently Elections Canada didn’t want to know in 2008. But maybe they do now? (more to follow….) .
Saturday Night’s Alright For (Uke) Cover Fighting!
There’sNoUkeLikeCoverUkeVille First, The Original….Because these days….Well….Mr. Roboto is…. Us. And next the only Uke cover in the whole, wide universe…. OK. Now. For something real… _______ I’ll have more on…
Robo-Call Listing Lifeline….Talking Points Stoopid
NeitherPlausible NorDeniableVille Normally, I don’t do stenography. But the following, from Glen McGregor’s OCitizen blog, leads down such a deep, dark well that it cannot be ignored. If only because…
The Marty Burke Email Story…"My Minister’s Pet Goat"
AllTheScapesThatFit OursIsAVastLandVille So. It would appear that the locals running Marty Burke’s Guelph campaign were chafing a little under the central party machine’s iron (target?) fist just as the campaign…
The Del Maestro Defense…
KnownKnownsWeDon’t KnowVille …Stated to Evan Solomon on ‘The House’ this morning went pretty much like this (paraphrasing)…. “If we did it, we would know it…. And we don’t (know it)…So…We…
Everybody Loves A Good Graph…
Complaints’RThem? TSMUVille …And Norm Farrell loves to make ’em out of publicly available data to make a point. So. How many of those 31,000 official complaints from official Canadians to…
When Is A Target Just A Target….
DidTheyHearTheBullseyesSwinging ConVille ….And When Does It Need ‘Managing’? Well….. Apparently, if you are the Conservative Party of Canada, and you need to identify and then manage ‘target seats’, you’ve been…
Did The Conservatives Have A Special ‘Swing Ridings’ Team in 2008?
OfHockeyRinksAnd Round-AboutsVille And why do we ask? Well. At the tail end of his recent column on the RoboCall incident that took place in the riding of Saanich in 2008…