Toronto-Danforth Votes Liveblog
Tonight Elections Canada will be serving up a lovely by-election in an NDP-leaning riding, following the tragic death of its original occupant. Given current circumstances – we recently switched around…
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Expectations of Toronto-Danforth Votes
Today, probably about 40% of the eligible voters of Toronto-Danforth will vote a new Member of Parliament into place, following the death of their old one, NDP Leader/Messiah Jack Layton.…
What Jedras Said
Jeff Jedras (aka A BCer in Toronto) has a brilliant post up just now about the follies of merger activists who propose the merger on the grounds of wanting a…
25K NDP Members Voted So Far Could Signal Low Turnout
Which is a rate of about 1,500 per day, since voting opened on March 1st. It’s probably fluctuated day by day, and more than likely sped up in the last…
Forum, Nanos Polling in Ontario Battle it Out
Two polls provincially in Ontario talk about, the first one being Nanos’ Research poll (they did one in November as well that didn’t make the radar), and the next being…
WTF is Going on in Scarborough-Rouge River?
Complaints from a federal Conservative candidate, a provincial Liberal MPP, and a failed municipal candidate, who all ran within Scarborough-Rouge River’s borders within the last two years, have pointed to…
Con Senator Don Plett Wants to Know If Ecologists Are Funded by Al-Qaeda and Martians
I do not need to say more than the headline, do I? The people that are put into the Senate by Harper – his friends, his failed candidates, his party…
PCs Still Dominate Alberta – For Now
Continuing with 2011’s incumbent-friendly trend, 2012 seems to be pretty incumbent-friendly as well – so far. Nowhere is this more exemplified than Alberta, which will need to go to the…
Death of the CAQ, Return of the PQ?
That was certainly quick. A couple of months after François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) swallowed up the old Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ), and ended up with eight experienced…
Hey, Israel Apartheid Week People…
Fire Charlotte Kates as a spokesperson before she causes any more damage than has already been done: Which is exactly the point, says Charlotte Kates, a spokesperson for BIAC. “We’re…
Atlantic Canada Polling Yay!
The ever-intrepid Corporate Research Associates, those who do basically all the polling for the Atlantic provinces provincially, are out with their newest quarterly numbers for all four provinces. Let’s start…
Forum Research – 37-28-25
If you need further proof that the robocalls scandal has either not hit its full stride yet, or has failed to capture the imagination of voters as a “true” scandal…
The Cullen Plan
I don’t like it. I think its a stupid idea that only benefits the NDP in most ridings, and us in fewer ridings, and the Greens in zero ridings. The…
Today in the Realm of Useless Ideas
A merger of the Manitoba Liberals and Greens! What? Though its been ruled out, I feel the need to comment. A merger of the Manitoba Liberal Party and the Green…
On that AR Poll of the Robocall Issues….
I have some minor issues with the questions, but overall its cool. Take a look. But, let me just point out one: How likely do you think each of the…
Nanos, Robocalls, and Super Tuesday
Sorry for my lack of posting the past three days – but I haven’t missed much anyways. The big thing I did miss was the recent Nanos Research poll, showing…
EKOS Poll Shows Little Movement
There’s very little difference between the last EKOS poll and this one, despite the robocall controversy. The topline numbers (with changes from last poll) are as follows: Con: 31.5% (+0.1)…
Did We Just Find the Smoking Gun?
From HuffPo: A Mission, B.C., woman says she was given misleading information by the Conservative Party a few days before the May 2011 federal election.Astrid Dimond said she had been…
Attention Dean Del Mastro: Where Are You Getting Your Information?
This accusation: Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro, the parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister, pointed out however that Mr. Volpe’s own riding spent money on voter-support call firms such as…
Liberals Are Just Bitter
Yes, we are just so bitter over the fact that we’re, in the words of one Blogging Tory, “… not even a shadow of the “Natural Governing Party” of glory…