By-elections will be held in the federal ridings of Calgary-Heritage and Calgary-Midnapore on April 3, 2017. Voting stations in those ridings will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.…
Status Quo. Close in Brandon. Whumped ’em in T.O. Center and Bourassa LPC increased its vote share, so that’s nice but no big thng. Didn’t I tell you so? I…
Welcome to the 1980s, everybody. Above, Pierre Trudeau, saying just that. Below: Justin Trudeau, embracing victorious Liberal candidate Emmanuel Douburg last night in Montreal’s Bourassa riding. (Montreal Gazette photo.) “Well,…
The occasion is this story in the Winnipeg Free Press: Forum released its latest round of polling late Sunday night following calls into the riding during the day. The survey…
No seats change hands and everyone spins the status quo. With a small chance that Rolf wins out in Brandon, which would be a real victory, and a true sign.…
The race is on in the federal ridings of Toronto-Centre, Provencher, Brandon-Souris and Bourassa. A special shout-out to Rolf Dinsdale, once lead guitarist for SFH and a guy with what…
Great video report from the local Victoria TV station. It's clear that Paul Summerville is the candidate who has shown leadership on an issue that is resonating with local citizens.…
From a Globe article quoting Joan Crockatt and the prospect of Calgary Centre by-election voters lining up to back one “ABC” candidate just as they did in 2000 when they…
Joan Crockatt’s winning numbers at Saturday’s Calgary Centre nomination meeting: Two sources indicated that three candidates were dropped and their votes redistributed before Crockatt emerged with more than 50 per…
Just reading Tim Harper’s latest, hot off the internets: “Vic Toews and his quest for the bench.” This part jumped out: The Court of Appeal post is a federal appointment…
A little bit of by-election mania in our near future… Durham. Calgary-Centre. Etobicoke-Centre. Do I hear Peterborough, anyone? Maybe four in our future. Or Provencher? Go for 5?
Ezra Levant urged to run in newly vacant Calgary Centre There would be an endless amount of muck to fling that would stick to Ezra and any Tory stupid enough…
Now that Conservative Ted Opitz has launched his appeal of the nullification of the Etobicoke-Centre election result, it looks like a bit of a public relations effort has started by…
“Tory in overturned Toronto election to go to Supreme Court.” Under the Canada Elections Act, the Supreme Court is required to hear an appeal of a contested election result “without…
“I declare the election null and void as contemplated under s.531(2) of the Canada Elections Act.” (para. 154) The overturned result is making the rounds all over, reported here at…
(Source) OK, so it wasn’t Seabiscuit after all. That’s part of a campaign and trying to swing momentum your way toward the end. This was, as everyone recognized, a very…
Now that’s a different kind of political ad. Fun.
