Team Trudeau trifecta
Gave a speech last week – and the week before that in Vancouver and Calgary – saying the same thing: the progressive coalition is women, young people and newcomers. Without…
Musings
OLP: 140 tweet-able characters to describe the next Premier
We need a winner, who wins outside Toronto. Who’s all about jobs, not controversy. A uniter, not a divider. Honest, frugal, tough, smart. There’s only one person who meets that…
Star candidate
Sigh. Here we go again. Here’s one from the archives: “Just study the case heretofore be known as the Toronto Star, et al. vs. Rob Ford. The Star threw everything…
Zombie apocalypse
As regulars know, zombies freak me out. I am, however, prepared for the zombie apocalypse, 24/7. I do not regard this movie as entertainment. It is a documentary.
U.S. election polling: Gallup was the worst…
…and some Canadians did well, sayeth Nate Silver: “…Ipsos, which conducted online polls for Reuters, came close to the actual results in most places that it surveyed, as did the…
In Sunday’s Sun: conservative, heal thyself
It is revealing — but by no means surprising — how conservatives reacted to the re-election of Barack Obama this week. Most infamously, real estate developer Donald Trump lost his…
OLP leadership race guideline stuff
1. This is a pro-Pupatello web site. If you want to trash her or mindlessly promote another candidate, go elsewhere. Or, better yet, start your own frigging web site. 2.…
Waterloo Record: Pupatello is the Ontario Liberals’ best chance
Quote: “The next Liberal leader has a mess to clean up, for sure. And if I were a member of the party, I’d be supporting Sandra Pupatello from Windsor. Here’s…
Sandra in Ottawa!
Nice. And who’s the smiling young man in the front row on the left?
Globe paywall
I’m not sure why aggregators, etc. are linking to them anymore, because you hit that infernal paywall now. I’m sure they’ve been told this many times, but let me echo…
Obama speaks to campaign staff in Chicago
For those who say he can’t speak without a TelePrompter – or that he is programmed, or that he lacks passion and emotion – take a good look at this.…
Sandra: compare and contrast
While some candidates were doing robocalls last night – and others readied themselves to do robocalls – Sandra Pupatello held a huge rally in Windsor last. Folks who were there…
How not to represent people with PR issues
The mere mention of this guy’s name is enough to make most people want to upchuck. So what does his well-paid legal team do – in the midst of an…
Wow
The Wynne campaign just did a robocall to a bunch of new Ontario Liberals. I wonder how they got their numbers? Also, robocalls: interesting strategy, there.
Sandra…for a change
For the Ontario Liberal leadership, I’m supporting Sandra Pupatello. She announced her candidacy just minutes ago here in Toronto, and she’s heading next to her home in Windsor to declare…
When cornered like a rat, blame the whistleblowers, blame women, blame anyone
Typical. But it won’t work. Never does.
U.S. election open thread
Exhilarated, exhausted, exhaling. What a night. I am so happy, I can’t tell you how happy. So, over to you smart commenters: why did Obama win? Why did Romney lose?…
Yahooooooooooo
Woooooooooooot!
Monte reacts to GOP numbers in Virginia
Sun News set right now – me, Monte and Adam.
Fight The Right at U of T – not sold out!
A few folks have been writing to me, saying that they’ve been told the U of T event is sold out. I checked with the organizers, and they say while…