The following are the words of the Dishonourable Rona Ambrose, Member of Parliament for Edmonton-Spruce Grove and Minister of Public Works and Government Services, spoken in the Parliament of Canada…
Well, well. I bet the Prime Minister’s Office is currently looking up what Cabinet order is required in order to sack an Auditor-General — and my apologies also to said…
UBC’s Andrew Irvine has published a useful column in Postmedia explaining why “quick fixes” like electronic voting or proportional representation aren’t likely to improve the sorry state of Canadian democracy.…
There’s been a great hullabaloo recently about the fact that the Conservatives have scheduled Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand’s testimony for a period when most journalists in Ottawa, we are…
The noose continues to tighten around Pierre Poutine. We have a second alias, and multiple fake addresses. Conservatives have openly leaked that they know who he is, and even stated…
Well, well. The plot thickens. I suppose I’ll start by asking why the new story has been leaked on a Friday afternoon, as the NDP convention gets underway. From what…
This is the only question worth asking. Tomorrow I’ll be back to the robocalls, but for the moment, let me just repeat that I am disappointed, angered, but not surprised…
Revenge is such sweet sorrow. One week ago, the Dishon. Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry in the Harper regime, commenced court proceedings intended to silence and punish critics of a…
I want to share what I think happened. As you can see from the Sixth Estate master list, now at 100 ridings and counting, there was quite a variety of…
Well, sort of. Stephen Skyvington says he only supports vote suppression when it’s done legally (because as we all know, if it’s not illegal, it’s not wrong). And in the…
When vote records proving election fraud were leaked to pro-Conservative journalist John Ivison at the National Post on Friday, I speculated that the leak probably came from the Conservative Party…
The National Post has received a politically convenient leak of “Pierre Poutine’s” telephone records, presumably from a Conservative sounce given that John Ivison’s story on the subject is backed up…
CIMS rocks. You can’t win without it. — Prescient Conservative campaigner in 2004 The centrepiece of whatever group perpetrated the robocall hoaxes, and is so far known to the public…
As the scandal deepens and the Liberals are implicated in illegal calls of their own, there are growing calls to ban political robocalls. I’m not sure why people think that…
1995 The year Vic Toews entered the legislature representing the Manitoba PCs, the party covertly funded left-wing independents in order to split the opposition NDP’s vote. Although there was a…
One of the most surprising elements of the corporate media’s coverage of the robocall affair is the strange shifts that have occurred. Sun, as expected, backed the government. The Toronto…
That, at least, seems tobe the only possible logical conclusion of this story, in which Maurice Vellacott extends the new Conservative excuse that I’ve identified recently: that Elections Canada is…
I’m having a hectic weekend and will have some new work to put on the Vote Fraud List hopefully this evening. In the meantime, I really hesitated to publish this…
I’ve heard it from enough sources over the last few days that I’m beginning to suspect this will be the message du jour by next week: okay, maybe some people…
The Conservative Party moved to an entirely unexpected (at least by me) and exceptionally dangerous tack on Thursday by announcing that their internal investigation had revealed the Liberals sent harassing…
