And now the student protesters lose all sympathy
… because a few pricks decided to quite literally physically assault students at UQÀM, who wishes to continue on with the classes they paid for. Honestly, when you feel the…
Volkov
Ipsos-Reid Poll: 37% Con, 35% NDP, 19% Lib
Ipsos Reid has come out with a new poll that shows both the Conservatives and the NDP running high, with the advantage going to the incumbents by 2% of the…
CAQ Shows Off Federalist Appeal in Argenteuil by-election
… by nominating the former Bloc Québécois MP for the area to run the upcoming provincial by-election in Argenteuil. The Coalition Avenir Québec, headed up by former péquiste MNA and…
BC NDP hit 50% Support
In a very clear sign that Adrian Dix and the BC New Democrats have major momentum, Angus Reid has put out a poll showing the NDP sitting at 50% support…
Repost: The CARP Poll is a Voodoo Poll
The Canadian Association of Retired Peoples is out with a poll of roughly 2,600 of their members (individuals over 55 years old, mostly), and apparently is shows the topline numbers…
Federal HD Poll: 34% NDP, 30% Con, 20% Lib
It’s an interesting little poll, for some reason currently lacking a proper link to its official PDF file, but Harris-Decima was nice enough to lay out the entire poll in…
What Does it Mean!?
It means nothing. It’s a poll, one of many, that shows the NDP leading the Conservatives as the Cons deal with a month of bad news (F35s, economy, robocalls, you…
MulcairsNDP.ca
This is the first installment of what I suspect will be a long-haul attack campaign by the Conservatives against Thomas Mulcair and the New Democrats, and instead of focussing on…
Can the Liberals Win in Western Canada?
Daveberta did a summary piece over on his blog about whether or not the New Democrats led by Thomas Mulcair can win back the power it once held in Western…
Picture of the Day
Would’ve been better if Sarkozy had actually won.
François Hollande Wins; Sky Falls Down
At some point in time, I’ll stop taking pundits seriously, but if you look at the results of the French presidential election, and the reaction it’s gotten so far from…
Our Second (Probable) Leadership Candidate: David Bertschi
David Bertschi has set up what essentially amounts to an “exploratory committee” (or at least the front page of the website for one) in order to determine whether or not…
Reason #1 to Move to Montréal
The guy on the right kinda looks like Pierre-Luc Dusseault, no? Naked protesters. Many of them female. And attractive (of course, they’re French Canadian). Hormones aside, it`s nice to see…
Harris-Decima Poll: 33% NDP, 30% Con, 20% Lib
This poll is interesting in that it confirms the Forum Research numbers of last week, yet at the same time, as Harris-Decima does, overestimates the Greens (changes from the last…
I Almost Agreed With Margaret Wente
… then she reverted back to being a bitch, but almost, I almost agreed with her. The article in question is her piece in the Globe about Quebec’s student protests,…
Brian Topp: Failed Candidate, Failure of a Columnist
I have a particular dislike of Brian Topp. I don’t know what it is about him, but the man smacks of all the things about union leaders, columnists, and New…
Can the Ontario Liberals Win Kitchener-Waterloo?
The resignation of PC MPP Elizabeth Witmer, who is the incumbent in the riding of Kitchener-Waterloo, to become chairwoman of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board is more than the…
Your Late-Afternoon Forum Poll: 36% NDP, 33% Con
Now, that’s a lead, not that piddly Léger Marketing one from before. The New Democrats lead the Conservatives by 3-points, hit their highest in decades, and… yes, yes they form…
Your Morning Nanos: 34.7% Con, 32.4% NDP
Short post this morning covering the much-balked Nanos poll, which I find less reliable provincially, but they’re following the trend (most of the time) federally, so let’s go over it…
Even Karl Rove Thinks Romney Will Lose
With friends like Karl, who needs enemies?