How Trudeau can remove the debate veto imposed by Harper and Mulcair
Possible debaters So Mulcair has decided he will only debate if the prime minister is debating? And Harper has decided not to debate in a forum that would attract the…
2015 election
Globe & Mail: 95% Chance Harper Government will be replaced in election
The mighty Globe & Mail has spoken, on this, the first day of our election campaign. The writ has been dropped, and the G&M has carried the golden election forecast…
Election: EKOS poll – Seniors will return Harper to power as Prime Minister
A key statistic is not who favours what party before election day, but how many voters actually cast a vote on that day. Seniors vote. Younger voters don’t vote in…
Harper’s Just Not Ready attack boomerangs!
Seems the Trudeau attack ad works with Conservatives but is making NDP supporters think about voting for Trudeau’s Liberals: A Conservative Party attack ad targeting Liberal leader Justin Trudeau for…
Start your engines: Stephen Harper to call election as early as Sunday
Steve Harper makes a mockery of of fixed date elections Prime Minister Stephen Harper will call an election as early as this Sunday, kicking off what would be the longest…
Harper is at the post, and there goes the starter’s pistol!!
Lots of speculation in the MSM and social media about when Stevie is going to visit the GG. The conventional wisdom is that he will make the walk (naw, he’ll…
The Harper Game Plan: Taming the dragon
A must-read article by Bruce Livesey in the National Observer should send chills down the spines of the 60% of Canadians who do not want Stephen Harper to win another…
2015 Election: Harper’s Conservatives down 30% in EKOS poll
The most significant statistic in the latest EKOS snapshot of Canadian politics is that the “new” Conservatives lead by PM Stephen Harper have now plunged to a level in anticipated…
Election 2015: Incredibly, 28% of Harper’s Conservative MPs are not running
The numberof non-runners is staggering: Stephen Harper is losing incumbent lawmakers at one of the highest rates in decades, and history suggests that weighs heavily on the Canadian Prime Minister’s…
Barry Kay of Laurier Institute: Say welcome to Prime Minister Tom Mulcair
Global News graphic of the horse race James Armstrong of Global News has a fascinating article about the findings of the Barry Kay team of the Laurier Institute, with three…
Election 2015 Seniors will determine who is Prime Minister of Canada come late October
Convergence Here’s one interesting finding from the June 16 Forum poll: The NDP vote is characteristic of the youngest (43%), the least wealthy (39%) and the wealthiest (37%), in BC…
Justin Trudeau’s legacy will equal that of his father
Just when Tom Mulcair was starting to measure the curtains in Harper’s home so that he could replace them when he became Prime Minister; when the polls showed a surge…
Election 2015: Why Canadians will have a new government
Yes, Prime Minister … Yesterday’s EKOS poll results released by Frank Graves have plenty of food for thought. The poll results are worth detailed study by anyone trying to get…
A question for the crowd…
Today’s announcement that Peter MacKay is not going to run for his seat in Parliament this fall has me thinking that maybe this is a sign that Stephen Harper is…
It is on… apparently
With the new round of polls in the hopper and the NDP surge from their surprising provincial victory in Alberta quantified, if it didn’t before, it looks like the national…
“It’s real – get over it”
So says ipolitics (pay wall), referring to the NDP surge that was confirmed this week by polls released by EKOS and by other groups. They go on to demonstrate that,…
Polievre and the election wrinkle
It’s not exactly news that Stephen Harper and his merry band are willing to cut a few corners when it comes to getting democratically elected. It’s also probably not news…
Vanity Videos and the Morphing of the Tories
Mister 100 Percent Satisified Move aside, YouTube: here come the new, improved Harper Tories’ Vanity Videos, made especially for every Canadian voter: Employment Minister Pierre Poilievre won’t apologize for using…
Latest poll: Opposition 206 seats, Harper Conservatives 131 seats
Prime Minister Mulcair? A logjam in our politics has been broken by a string of elections over the past two years. Things that were unheard of before, now are reality.…
Vote Together
I’m all in favour of voting your conscience. I’m all in favour of voting for the person who best will represent your riding. However, in the screwed up system that…