Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Adam Radwanski warns that Ontario's voters can't afford to stay home from today's provincial election.- Jim Stanford calls out the Harper Cons and…
Manitoba
Another Victim Of FPTP
From the coverage of the Manitoba election:McFadyen added that his party was the victim of a cruel numbers game under the first-past-the post election system."Under any other circumstance we would…
LATE TO THE PARTY
SO YEAH JUST BACK FROM VISITING MY SON AT THE HOSPITAL, DID YOU HEAR THIS THEY HAD AN ELECTION IN MANITOBA? BASICALLY IT’S BEEN CALLED ALREADY (SPOILER ALERT: NDP MAJORITY)…
No, I didn’t forget about Manitoba
Sorry for the delay folks - Manitoba election results are found right here.
The Sunny Way
The Sunny Way? This is, of course, one of Aesop’s fables and a favorite story of Wilfred Laurier. It’s a story about persuasion being superior to force, to working with…
2015
With an unusually high number of overlapping provincial and territorial elections overlapping this year, the Fall of 2011 makes for a busy electoral season. With few fireworks in Ottawa as…
Encouraging Early Political Engagement: CitizenNext.ca
It is not an accident that I am a political junkie. Even as a toddler, I was fed a steady diet of left-of-centre ideology, pro-union sentiments and anti-monarchist dogma. My…
On September 24th, The Planet Is Moving. Are You Joining The Ride Beyond Fossil Fuels?
Across Ontario and around the world, September 24th is a a day for people to rally and demand from our elected leaders action on moving beyond fossil fuels. Initiated by…
McFadyen Brings Knife to Gun Fight
Poor, poor Hugh. He`s stuck playing Charlie Brown……again. I can only imagine the scene over at the Omega Theta Pi Frat House when they were discussing their latest scheme. “Hey,…
The One Thing You Need to Know About Hugh McFadyen
He will turn on a dime. That’s a good thing if you’re Jacques Villenuve or Vinn Diesel, but if you are in need of Health Care; are concerned about crime;…
RIP Rick Rypien
Winnipeg Jets center Rick Rypien was found dead in his Coleman, Alberta, home Monday afternoon, and reports say that it was a suicide. He was 27-years-old and the second NHL…
What McFadyen’s cuts would mean to YOU!
We know that Hugh McFadyen’s personal ideology would compel him to balance the Budget on a year-over basis. Though Hugh has been trying to run away from this for the…
Updated with hyperlinks
A previous version of this post is the most Googled thing I've ever written, so I'll keep re-posting it with updates as the busy electoral season approaches. It's a calendar…
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…
Where, oh where?
On Monday we had Ian Rab and Myrna Driedger parroting the claims of the Winnipeg Scum that the government was beng unethical because they announced programmes and services for Manitobans.…
Just the facts ma’am
So late yesterday Team Hughie wannabe Ian Rab and Myrna Driedger pecked out this little <140 character missive on the tweeter. ”NDP buying votes with you| Winnipeg Sun http://t.co/DrFapIz” OK,…
McFadyen changes feet
Guess Hugh McFadyen finally woke up and realized that his strategy to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory is working. Good on you Hugh. Today McFadyen issued his call…
Why Manitobans are Rejecting Hugh McFadyen
A couple months ago the polls had Hugh McFadyen ready to move into his new digs at Room 204 of the Legislative Building. Well, today a fresh poll released by…
Canada Wheat Board fight begins
As the video above explains, the NDP government in Manitoba, facing an election in October this year, is rolling out taxpayer funded ads to oppose the federal Conservatives' intended move…