Other provinces have elections too: PEI Edition
While The Only Province That Matters (props to whoever gets the reference) goes to vote on October 6th, and the province west of it goes to vote on October 4th,…
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The Just Crusade Against Quebec’s 25%
Fellow Liblogger Peter Wrightwater, who writes the blog Paper Dynamite Online, is going on something of a small crusade the last few days, attacking the apparent push, first by NDP…
Angus Reid – PCs 36, OLP 32, NDP 26
Not really very different from their last poll, which was 38-31-24. However, even though it doesn't show a drastic change like the other three (not including Abacus), it does show…
Bizarro World BC
Because where else can you find a provincial Liberal Party attacking the leader of the Conservative Party - for not being conservative enough!?Granted, the BC Liberals are not your standard…
Open Question to Halton Region NDP Candidates
Will you follow the spoken and written word of your leader, Andrea Horwath, directing you to not use Jack Layton's legacy and untimely death for your own electoral advantage?Or, will…
NDP Leadership Poll
Yep.I know what you're thinking: someone here, in Canada, had the brilliance to poll the NDP leadership race? Not only that, they did it days after Layton's passing? Before anyone…
Two Polls, Two Stories
Let's start with the good news: a Forum Research poll shows the PCs plummeting to John Tory lows in Toronto, sitting at just 24% of decided voters. McGuinty's Liberals sit…
Two Polls Give Ontario Grits Smiles
One from Ipsos Reid and one from Nanos Research confirm the trend seen in the Harris-Decima poll that was out only a few days ago, which blew the race in…
Nanos Poll Shows More NDP Support, But Little Real Change Overall
In fact, one could argue that Nanos is just correcting from his last poll, which gave the Liberals a small edge as the second-place party.Nevertheless, here are the topline numbers:…
Debunking "What If Lizzy May Was In The Debates?"
A few people out there have stated something so simple, so ground in common sense, that it defies logic to argue against it: that had Elizabeth May been in the…
Reading Into the #ablib Leadership Results
First off, I should say that I didn't focus enough as I should have on this leadership race. Given the entirety of whats going on in half of the country's…
Alberta Liberal Leadership Race Results
Here are the numbers for the Alberta Liberal leadership race: Raj Sherman: 4,684 votes (54%)Hugh Macdonald: 2,239 votes (26%)Laurie Blakeman: 854 votes (9%)Billl Harvey: 626 votes (7%)Bruce Payne: 197 votes…
@Dalton_McGuinty in Burlington
Nice little event tonight, probably 200ish (I'm horrible with counting though, and I didn't see outside), with McGuinty, plus my local candidate Karmel Sakran, and quite a few area candidates…
HD Poll: OLP – 40%, PCs 29%, NDP 24%
This Harris-Decima poll is good news for the Liberal campaign in Ontario, the first such poll to have us in the lead since February 2010, and the first one with…
Other provinces have elections too: Manitoba edition
In an utter surprise to this arrogant central Canadian, four other provinces and two territories are holding elections this October in what promises to be an interesting campaign among the…
Let the Green Revolution Begin!
First, they start having riding associations dropping like flies, plus an entire provincial party and almost two.Then, the leader sidesteps a constitution-mandated review of her time in office, thereby shutting…
Now Chretien Predicts a Merger
There is just no way for an anti-merger Liberal to get by anymore.That being said, it'll be funny to attack all the Tories who point to Chretien's words after lambasting…
Taking On the Dolts – Highly Skilled Immigrant Tax Credit Edition
Here's a selected line from the wonderful new platform released by Dalton McGuinty's Liberals yesterday:"Immigration is another Ontario advantage. The quicker we engage the skills newcomers have when they arrive,…
Tories lead Ont. Libs by just 3.5% – Nanos
Though they're both down from their last poll thanks to an NDP jump (or, possibly just a resettling, given that Nanos had them lower than other pollsters before) Nanos has…
"Be bold, or get lost"
This is the apparent message that McGill political scientist Antonia Maioni told the recent Liberal Party summer caucus, a message I wholeheartedly endorse.You can read the whole thing here, though…