Can We Take Toronto-Danforth! part (1)
Toronto-Danforth is going to have an election very soon in order to fill the vacancy. This riding has only voted NDP since 2004 when Jack Layton just after Jack Layton…
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Provincial Elctions
Three provincial election will be held in October, and all of them after each other. The first election is on October 3rd in PEI, and right now unless something drastic…
No to NDP/Liberal Merger!
CAW head ken Lewenza is advocating for the Liberal party to have a coalition with the NDP. The fact of the matter is that the Liberals don't need a merger…
Change You Can See
Being the change you want to see in the world — it’s not just a clever slogan, it’s the only direct way someone can change their circumstances. Here are some…
Past Irony
I find it ironic that Jack Layton was saying in the early 1990s what I was saying about the televised leaders debates in 2011 for the federal election. The independent…
Hugh’ve got to be kidding me
Seriously Hugh. The “leak” of your election platform is as disengenuous as the document itself. So the polling that now has you ten points back has also showed that Manitobans…
Hudak to help students: Can we trust him?
Yesterday, PC Leader Tim Hudak announced that he would provide more funding for Ontario students, by diverting funds away from the Ontario Trillium Scholarship program.The Ontario Trillium Scholarship program was…
Angry Voters
Jeff suggests a new app for the iPhone. I’d call it iVote, or Angry Voters. I used to be a hard-liner against e-voting, but now I’m starting to wonder if…
Would You Vote Over The Internet?
I trust computers… to do what their potentially untrustworthy programmers tell them to do. Because it’s computer code that could be corrupted, there’s little means for the layperson voter to…
The problem with Hudak
Hudak has a number of problems, the largest being trust. People don't trust him. In particular, women don't trust him. In a new poll, Nanos Research concluded that only 1…
Conservatives: Doing Pork-barrel by the Book
An election issue that was overlooked by the electorate was the G8 spending by Tony Clement, a minister in Harper’s cabinet. Tony is very active on Twitter, he’s practically the…
On small parties.
Short one today, as I'm trying to work through dissertation revisions. But I thought it was worth noting how few of Ontario's registered political parties have bothered to put together…
GOP Congressman Warns That EPA Could Be On The Chopping Block After 2012 Elections
epa-evil.jpg Representative Mike Rogers (R-AL) told an internet-based radio program earlier this week that if the GOP is able to sweep the 2012 elections, government agencies like the Environment...
National Popular Vote
We all know that the current electoral system is broke in the U.S . In 2000 Al Gore won the Popular vote and he still lost the election. 2000 wasn't…
Problem with Rebuilding
Me like many Liberals are facing an identity crisis. We have no longer became the natural governing party of Canada we are rather seen as another left wing party. In…
On the Green Party platform.
Finally -- for now, at least, until the Tories and NDP release the rest of their platforms, and the Libs release anything at all -- I'm going to take a…
Hugh wants a “do-over”?
Today’s Freep has a piece by Dan Lett in it about how Hugh McFadyen and his team are “holding their fire” in this “pre-writ” period. I say, “pre-writ” period, because…
Do No Pass Go! No Soup for You!
The thing about Hugh McFadyen that sets off people’s bullshit detectors is his penchant for resorting to stunts that are cheap, cheesy, and perhaps worthy of a Junior running for…
On the Ontario PCs’ platform
So, here we go with the Ontario PC Platform, the Changebook (warning: PDF). Or is that the Change Book? ChangeBook? I don't know, and I don't think they do, either.According...