Politics, polls and personal stuff
Lots of stuff to talk about at the beginning of this week: - The official Fall session for the federal Parliament begins today. The Conservatives and Harper will now begin…
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The fun with green energy columns continues
So John Ivison had another column today criticizing the Ontario Liberal government's green energy plan: here. The column focuses on a solar energy company that Dalton McGuinty visited this week,…
Hudak visits Toronto Star ed board
It's too bad that the Star only taped just under 3 minutes of the meeting they had with Tim Hudak. The Ottawa Citizen met with Dalton McGuinty the other day…
2011 Ontario Election: Parkdale-Highpark All Candidates Forum Response
The following is my observations and reflections from attending an All Candidates Forum for the riding of Parkdale-Highpark. Click here for an overview on the candidates for this riding. While…
This Is An Economist?
Like Stephen Harper, Tim Hudak has as Master's degree in economics. But, as Jim Stanford points out in his latest publication from The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Hudak's economics…
The Hudak Conservatives are in trouble: polls
We had some people wondering if the Harris-Decima poll earlier last week showing an 11 point Liberal lead was an “outlier”. Well, we have 32 new polls out this evening…
Horwath weighs in
Finally addressing the big issue of week one that the NDP curiously declined to speak about: For a week, Andrea Horwath has been reluctant to talk about the issue sucking…
Them!
The paranoia of the 1950's is perhaps best captured in the 1954 film, Them!, a ninety-four minute saga which turned on two common themes of the day -- nuclear Holocaust…
Miscellaneous Ontario election campaign tidbits
A couple of things here and there this AM: Eric Grenier of threehundredeight.com has a piece in the Globe and Mail about his seat projections for the Ontario election. If…
Challenging the politics of division – part III
This is a very clever 90 seconds. McGuinty is articulating a moral view here, of what Ontario is about and what he believes, in continued response to Tim Hudak's divisive…
Another flawed attack on green energy in Ontario
This John Ivison column from yesterday is the latest from a Canadian pundit to attack the Ontario government's green energy efforts: "McGuinty's green bubble ready to pop." It, like the…
About that tax credit
On the topic of the week. The tax credit to businesses to hire new Canadians is targeted at Canadian citizens here less than five years. 1,200, at that. When skilled…
Killing The Bob Rae Myth
Watching the Ontario election you'd think that there was nothing of much import going on in the world. Why else would there be so little difference in the platforms of…
Early days but good signs
A poll out tonight in the Ontario race shows a Liberal lead: A newly released Harris-Decima poll shows Dalton McGuinty's Ontario Liberals have an 11 point lead over Tim Hudak's…
A stunner of a new Ontario poll, if accurate.
Wow: A newly released Harris-Decima poll shows Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario Liberals have an 11 point lead over Tim Hudak’s Progressive Conservatives – the first time the governing party has bested…
Q & A with Tony Genco
Seems Tony Genco, PC candidate in Vaughan also shares the view that the PCs are a divided bunch: Q: Your nomination has spurred some division within the Conservative party itself,…
Canada falls from competitiveness Top 10
Noted from the Globe yesterday: Canada has continued its slide in business competitiveness, falling to 12th place from 10th last year in a World Economic Forum ranking of countries around…
Challenging the politics of division – part II
"Hudak’s politics of division" gets appropriately called out. First, on his hypocrisy: New immigrants to Ontario must wonder how they suddenly went from being valued Canadians, whose skills our economy…
McGuinty’s immigrant pledge is simply bad politics
McGuinty has recently made an election pledge to provide $10,000 dollars in support for businesses that hire immigrants. Regardless of what one might think about the policy itself, it is…
The Battle for the Middle Class
In today's Toronto Star, Tom Walkom writes that the winner of the Ontario election will be the party which best calms the fears of the middle class: "The battleground in…