Everybody blinks except Mulcair
The NDP’s English ad is out. It contains the script that the media got their hands on earlier, where the winner, whomever it is, talks about being a Cabinet minister…
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After The "Honeymoon"
These are great days to be the NDP. Whatever lull the party experienced after the death of Jack Layton has been corrected, terrific polling translates to realistic government in waiting…
4th Poll In A Month Has NDP Tied With Conservatives
A Léger Marketing poll for The Gazette and Le Devoir April 2-4 shows the following support among decided voters: NDP 33% Conservatives 32% Liberals 19% Green 8% In Quebec: NDP…
Dear Thomas Mulcair and Bob Rae,
Could both of you (and your NDP and Liberal parties, respectively), please stop trading insults? I believe many Canadians would appreciate you more if you came together to fight the…
NDP leads federal polls for first time since 1987
2012 will be added to 1987 and 1943 as years that the NDP or it’s predecessors have lead federal polling. Sitting at 36% the party is statistically tied with the…
Ambiguous Wildrose abortion statements emerge as NDP support jumps in Edmonton
Wildrose Apocalypse? Abortion chatter sparks new fears about Wildrose as poll shows NDP mini-surge in Edmonton. Below: NDP Leader Brian Mason. Are residents of the Edmonton region, as disgusted with…
Thomas "Karate Chop" Mulcair
I was looking at Canadian political websites and the header banner of the NDP site looked funny to me so I decided to edit it a bit. (click the images…
The Conservative Coalition
I haven’t bothered to double check this little amusing fact, because I have no reason to assume it’s incorrect. There is only one federal party in Canada that calls for…
Wildrose leader openly lays out plan for privatizing health care
Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith in Promises, Promises, the Medical Comedy. The trouble is, it’s not funny. Real Alberta politicians may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Ms. Smith as she…
Outtakes from the NDP Leadership Convention
The Krellant Evening News brings you the deleted scenes from our special report on the NDP Leadership Convention. Every wondered about the NDP’s position on the weaponization of space, or…
Thomas Mulcair “On Continue” ad
The NDP and Thomas Mulcair are off and running with the biggest non-election period campaign spending on advertising ever. They have released a French ad, with the English ad to…
3 Polls Affirm NDP Tied With Conservatives
The other day I wrote about 2 polls that showed the NDP tied with Conservatives for support. A third poll with more recent data affirms this trend. Harris-Decima has released…
Bear Safety Tips for Bob Rae
Liberal leader Bob Rae seems intent on provoking a Grizzly attack. I have slightly adapted some internet advice for him: – Play dead! (The latest polling results should make that…
New Federal Poll
Hot off the press.http://www.harrisdecima.com/sites/default/files/releases/2012/04/04/hd-2012-04-04-en1342.pdfThe graphic on the first page is not a pretty sight for Liberals…
On areas of agreement
There’s plenty of room for debate as to whether Peter Julian’s budget filibuster should be seen to have its greatest impact in empowering Canadians who don’t hold a seat in…
Leadership 2012 Lessons Learned – Party Edition
I’ll close off my discussion of the NDP’s leadership campaign with another lessons learned post – this one from the standpoint of the party in administering the campaign. For the…
A conversation between Micah Goldberg & Joseph Uranowski on: Progressive Cooperation
Micah Goldberg is one of my favourite people (he has guest blogged for me on a number of occasions.) One of our first conversations together was an argument about some…
Taxing Ontario’s Richest
Ontario’s NDP was out today with a Robin Hood proposal to collect more provincial tax from personal incomes in excess of half a million dollars. The approximately $570 million of…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to end your day. – Boris sums up the Cons’ budget message to poor Canadians. David Macdonald assesses the Cons’ impact on jobs – with -70,000 not exactly…
NDP Tied With Conservatives, And, Mulcair Doing Well
Two poll results from March (early March and then just after Mulcair won the leadership of the NDP), by Environics in early March and by Forum in late March, show…