10 thoughts on the Ontario Liberal Party AGM this weekend
I’m on the train on my way back to Ottawa for the return of Parliament after spending the weekend in Toronto for the Ontario Liberal Party Annual General Meeting. And…
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My pragmatic OLP leadership take that will probably make everyone upset
I have been confirmed as a voting delegate from Ottawa Centre for the upcoming Ontario Liberal Party annual meeting in Toronto, and I will be voting against a leadership review.…
My pragmatic OLP leadership take that will probably make everyone upset
I have been confirmed as a voting delegate from Ottawa Centre for the upcoming Ontario Liberal Party annual meeting in Toronto, and I will be voting against a leadership review.…
This is a big weekend for Ontario Liberals
Delegate selection. How will they choose? I didn’t see this until a reporter drew this to my attention. It will affect the way some choose. Ontario Liberals can’t afford @StevenDelDuca.…
#LavScam: RCMP confirm probe underway into Trudeau and PMO
Finally. After seizing Gerald Butts’ government-issue laptop and cell phone – after all of the senior PMO staff lawyered up – one would’ve thought the criminal probe was already underway.…
Exile on Mainstreet
So, that Mainstreet poll. On the one hand, I like its founder and the people who work there. My firm has used them in the past. When the Lavscam scandal…
You won’t read all about this one in the Toronto Star
Story by QP Briefing, which has been repeatedly breaking stories lately, here: When PC Leader Doug Ford was the only party leader who declined to participate in a Toronto debate…
And they spent $650,000 on the Ontario Cannabis Store logo, too!
This is how they think they’ll win? With puerile tweets like this? Here’s a fact, Wizard War Room: Kathleen Wynne, who is a smart person who you continually embarrass with…
It’s all over before it’s started (updated)
As predicted: his strategy is to destroy his former political home. He’s doing that. This turns the PC Party of Ontario into a running joke. Their leadership race becomes a…
Is the decade-long Brian Mulroney rehabilitation project finally paying off … for his daughter?
PHOTOS: Caroline Mulroney (Photo: Wikimedia Commons). Below: Former Canadian Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney in his heyday (Photo: Wikimedia Commons), lobbyist Robin Sears, conservative godfather Preston Manning, and Ontario Liberal…
Happy Canada Day! Nice to welcome a new NDP government, though some caveats may apply here in Alberta
PHOTOS: British Columbia’s NDP Premier-Designate John Horgan with your blogger, not so very long ago. Below: Alberta NDP Premier Rachel Notley, a Vancouver take on a Canada Day flag, and…
Four (more) arguments against real-world basic income
With the Ontario Liberals rolling out their basic income pilot project to much fanfare this week, it’s an opportune time to dive into the debates around BI once again. 1…
Federal NDPer Defects To OLP
OTTAWA — One of the federal NDP’s former rising stars has decided she wants to run for the provincial Liberals in Ontario.Good luck to her. And it shows that Wynne's…
Federal NDPer Defects To OLP
OTTAWA — One of the federal NDP’s former rising stars has decided she wants to run for the provincial Liberals in Ontario.Good luck to her. And it shows that Wynne's…
Podcast: Pension tensions and privatizations
https://politicalehconomy.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/podcast150501-pensions-and-privatization.mp3 I have two guests on two different topics today. First up: Kevin Skerrett, a pension researcher at the Canadian Union of Public Employees. I spoke with him about the…
NDP MP Glenn Thibeault defects to Ontario Liberals, “proud” of it
Sudbury NDP MP Glenn Thibeault has defected from the federal party to run for Kathleen Wynne’s Ontario Liberals in a upcoming byelection in Sudbury. The post NDP MP Glenn Thibeault…
Red in Central Canada, blue in Ottawa an immutable rule that favours Harper’s Tories? Don’t bet on it!
Is Justin Trudeau finished because Kathleen Wynne just won in Ontario, like the mainstream media’s pundits are telling you? Don’t be too sure! (Say, as one Twitter commenter asked, who…
Wynne’s Win, and the Agony of Right-Wing Pundits
Three election opportunities lost, Nova Scotia, BC and now the Ontario results flatten the calculating NDP strategists decision to force an election and shift to the so called middle. Here…
My policy on improving civic education makes the Ontario Liberal Party platform!
Readers of this space will remember my policy on youth voter registration that was passed as a priority policy at the Ontario Young Liberals Summer Fling last year. The policy…
My policy on improving civic education makes the Ontario Liberal Party platform!
Readers of this space will remember my policy on youth voter registration that was passed as a priority policy at the Ontario Young Liberals Summer Fling last year. The policy…