Election shout outs
Dammit Janet has uncovered the failed Ottawa Centre Liberals attempt to be cleverly underhanded. Scott Bradley’s campaign is misquoting Ottawa Center MP and NDP candidate Paul Dewar in an attempt…
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NDP: Best Ads on the Block
Week 2 of #elxn41 is well under way, and the election ads have been rather predictable. The Harper Conservatives have gone negative with their Iggy is an illegal alien ads.…
Youth-anize the vote!
I don’t know if this will really surprise anyone, but it’s just another instance of the unprecedented hostility Harper’s Conservatives hold towards anyone with opposing views. It’s the kind of…
Keon Responds to Vandals
It’s nice to see that so many people across the nation were as disgusted as I was by the vandalism of Ryan Keon’s campaign signs in Nepean-Carleton. Apparently there’s been…
Wait Times
So what’s been happening on the policy front during this election? Well, Stephen Harper and his party have the wealthy, healthy folk covered. Yes, he cares about them, or rather…
BKACPP – Christian Heritage Party of Canada
Party Name: Christian Heritage Party of Canada Tag Line: Better Solutions for Canada Leader (Location): James (Jim) Hnatiuk (Cumberland–Colchester–Musquodoboit Valley, NS) Date of Registration: June 17, 1986 2008 election: 59…
Yeah, but howz your hockey?
Needs work. .
Stella Ambler, wtf? update…
update Upon reading my post after its appearance on Progressive Bloggers, I realised most wouldn’t have a clue who stella ambler is. Here is some quick background. She is running…
Harper Party announces 2011 platform release date
For 2015-2016 if the budget is balanced. Maybe. Meanwhile, Michael Ignatieff and his Liberal team have put together a platform for families that aims to strengthen Canada through investment, education,…
Election: First week roundup
Its been just over a week since the writ dropped and the 41st federal election was announced. Its been a wild one, to be sure. Here’s the Readers Digets version…
Harper Wants to Weaken Democracy…Again
Yesterday, Stephen Harper brought a campaign issue that literally no one else was thinking about. He informed the public that a Harper majority government would remove the per0vote subsidy that…
In Defence of Democracy! (or, To Block The Bloc)
At least I think I am defending democracy. Perhaps I’m just out of touch, too. I read and comment on dozens of online news sources daily but few of them…
Antagonism and Opportunism
The federal election being called last Friday has thrown me into an inescapable vortex of Canadian federal politics, and somehow a story that would normally catch my eye escaped me.…
Crazy Bitches R Us 2011-04-02 17:37:00
An anonymous poster wrote to CrazyBitchesRus the following: “…no seems to have noticed that NWAC has laid off all the Sisters In Spirit staff. The NWAC SIS department is closed…
Idle Thoughts on Week One
It’s hard to believe it’s only week one actually, so much has happened. That said, a few things stood out for me. Other than policy issues, (which I obviously do…
Despicable
What is happening in Canada? This looks like some U.S. fanatical stuff, right here in South Ottawa. It’s honestly disturbing.
My Fellow Canadians: Where do you get your news?
Do you get paper delivery each morning? Read the national, provincial or local headlines from newspapers at work? Catch up on the news from papers left at Tim Hortons? Do…
Let’s Hear From Everyone At The Debates
There was an awful lot of talk this week about a one-on-one debate between Iggy and Harper. Sorry, but this is not an election that simply pits Big Blue against…
Conservative candidate Marty Burke scrubs controversial views from website
Yesterday Scott Tribe blogged about the controversial opinions that Marty Burke, Conservative candidate in Guelph, has shared in various letters-to-the-editor in recent years, including: denouncing the war in Afghanistan “a…
BKACPP – Canadian Action Party
Party Name: Canadian Action Party Leader: Christopher Porter Date of Founding: 1997 05 13 2008 election: 20 candidates 3 455 votes 11th place of 19 parties Notable History: Party was…