Prominent NDP Supporter, Bonjour Quebec!
Bonjour Quebec.Did you know that Andrew Ference of the Boston Bruins is a prominent member of the NDP? Did you know he addressed their bienial conference in the past? Do…
Prominent NDP Supporter, Bonjour Quebec!
Bonjour Quebec. Did you know that Andrew Ference of the Boston Bruins is a prominent member of the NDP? Did you know he addressed their bienial conference in the past?…
Catch 22 ups its campaign to stop Harper in crucial ridings
The Catch 22 Campaign is stepping up its efforts in 15 electoral ridings where defeats for Conservative candidates will help prevent a Conservative majority government. “While we will keep working…
Come On Up For the Rising
Source: EKOS Politics: Seat Projection April 25th, 2011Source: Bruce Springsteen - The RisingFor a bit the media has drawn a comparison to Ignatieff's call on Canadians to rise up as…
Orange wave hits Mississauga
Mississauga Willy reporting in. For those of you who are not familiar with the political landscape of Hazels hideaway, here is the history. Mississauga has four ridings and for the…
Feeling Green(?)
Still haven’t completely made up my mind, but am leaning towards voting for Mark MacKenzie in Ottawa West-Nepean. I still need to check out a few things, before what could…
Fear-mongering in election ads
I have recently been inundated with ads that are basically created to make you fear the alternatives. No ads about plans or policies, just how bad it will be if…
LaytAnt turns attacks back on rivals (Cartoon of the Day)
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/story/2011/04/27/cv-election-ndp-layton-winnipeg-1039.html
Terrorist? or Pardoned?
Hamas and Fatah to join. All terrorist Hamas supporters are now pardoned here in Canada; OR, all Canadian Fatah supporters are now home-grown terrorists! Stupid politics we have here. .
From Conservative Minority to Majority, Part I: Revisiting the December, 2008 Prorogation Decision
“We will go over the heads of Parliament; over the heads, frankly, of the Governor General; go right to the Canadian people.” – John Baird, in an interview with journalist…
Socialist Party of Ontario resolution: Internet Democracy
This is a resolution for the proposed Socialist Party of Ontario. It is based on one I submitted to the federal NDP in 2003. Whereas the Internet allows a much…
Stop the Fear-Mongering folks. . . .
To all those hacks out there who love to spread fear concerning the financial "chaos" that they say would be caused by having the NDP anywhere close to power. Take…
IDFA offers online films on “Arab Spring” – Docs on Middle East commemorate pro-democracy movement
Docs on the Middle East online for the first time.
Canada’s Progressives Are About to Get Screwed by a Corrupt Electoral System
The sudden rise of the NDP in the polls gives reason to hope that the political landscape is about to change fundamentally.Don't bet the farm on it.What the pundits don't…
Forum Research reports reduced Harper minority, NDP in Stornoway
From The Hill Times, the projection is Conservatives 137 seats, the NDP 108 seats if an election were held today, 60 for the Liberals and only three seats for the…
The NDP surge and its consequences
The largest political story of the week has nothing to do about policies, it is about the fact that after months of poll numbers that stubbornly refused to budge the…
Canada has come down in the world
All politics is local. Dooley was right when he said that. When we look at the leaders of the parties in an election we ask ourselves, even unconsciously, would we…
Grinding away at the campaign trail in Simcoe-Grey…
Last night’s all-candidate’s event in Thornbury hosted by the Blue Mountains Chamber of Commerce was a gas – 10 times much more fun than Collingwood’s, when we have to sit…
#elxn41 Primer: New Democratic Party
Banners and signs are waved as rock music plays in the packed hall. The beaming leader, flush with polling numbers that put him in a statistical tie for first place…
The Mumpsimus Blog – The clattering keys grow silent as the curtain falls
The typewriter is dead. That news didn't surprise me, but it certainly saddened me. The clatter of typewriter keys was sweet music to my ears, when I was much younger.…