Tim Hudak, the GOP and Voter Suppression
I posted recently about an Ontario conservative scheme to suppress the vote in the upcoming provincial election. A Party calling themselves None of the Above could be traced back to…
Campaign Research
Byelection Day in Ontario – grading the pollsters polls
Interested political observers and partisans will be looking at today’s by-elections here in Ontario to see what message the voters will be sending the Ontario Liberal government of Kathleen Wynne.…
About Those Robocalls…
Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro was himself behind two robocalls on election day, the Calgary Herald revealed today. Del Mastro’s campaign manager, Jeff Westlake, sent recorded messages to constituents reminding…
Firms Use #CPC Tactics To Halt Bad PR
Many of you will remember yesterdays post about John Fryer, the UVic professor who wrote a letter to the editor of the Globe and Mail about the two day Manning…
Market research association to convene panel on Campaign Research
Yeah, that’s going to do it. One corrupt body made up of corrupt members going after one of its own. Right.
Why are we so Shocked to Learn that the Conservatives Stole the Election?
During the G20 in Toronto, when Canadian citizens were being arrested, beaten and shot with rubber bulletts, simply for engaging in their democratic right to protest, at Charles McVety’s Christian…
Americans Fear Their Election Could End up Like Canada’s. I Can Help
In the upcoming election, Barack Obama will not be challenged by the Republicans, who frankly have given up on even pretending to be politicians serving the public, but by the…
What if This Happened to You?
What if you went into work today and were told that you would have to take a 50% wage cut? Could you pay your mortgage? Your rent? Your bills? Feed…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your afternoon reading. – Dan Leger worries about the consequences of the Cons’ faith-based government: Despite the big majority and many years left in its mandate, the…
Smoking gun: firm who made Cotler robocalls worked on Andrew Scheer campaign
Not that the media will do more than blink but this should be front page news. A Citizen analysis of Elections Canada records shows that Campaign Research was involved in…
The Conservatives Did What? Please, Not While I’m Eating!
John Kenneth Galbraith, once said of Richard Nixon: “Our nation stands at a fork in the political road. In one direction lies a land of slander and scare; the land…
Odd Happenings in Mont-Royal
So imagine this. You are an MP of a riding in the middle of Montreal. You’re not any MP, though, you are a Liberal MP. Your party has held this…
Polling Company Trying to Discredit Liberal MP Has Conservative Ties
As you may have heard by now, a polling company has been phoning around Montreal, claiming that Liberal MP Irwin Cotler is about to resign and asking who they plan…