A Midsummer Night’s Robocon Scandal Update…
Alas, Canada… we’re not any closer to knowing if Pierre Poutine, aka Pierre Jones, is — or isn’t — Andrew Prescott. What of the 1,394 complaints alleging specific occurrences in…
Robocon
The Shorter Kady O`Malley On Pierre Poutine And Andrew Prescott And The Tory Robocall Scandal
Pierre Poutine and Andrew Prescott both accessed Racknine from the same computer at Marty Burke`s campaign office within minutes of each other late late one night (late several nights, really)…
ConCalls: Waiting For Nothing #RoboCon
As many bloggers have suspected for months, there’s no serious investigation into over 230 ridings across Canada regarding the robocalls scandal. Elections Canada is supposed to be working on more…
Saturday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – Gerald Caplan weighs in on Jack Layton’s legacy: It seems to me that Jack Layton’s enduring legacy is twofold. First, he set a…
Campaign Capers: Too much of nothing
The Council of Canadians and the seven ridings When it was first reported that the applicants in this case were requesting information from Elections Canada, it was suggested that EC…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Toby Sanger discusses how wealthy Canadians – especially in the financial sector – are making more and more use of offshore tax havens…
Campaign Capers: The week in review
The search for Pierre Poutine Even among those who are fervently hoping that the perpetrator of all those fraudulent phone calls in Guelph is found, I can imagine two distinctly…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Tobi Cohen picks up on the possibility of a provincial NDP in Quebec, and notes that the federal party is considering what can…
ConCalls: Defending Election Fraud is the Right Thing to Do #RoboCon
I’m giving you the following because you too deserve to be irritated by “The Incurious”. Among them is a supposed journalist who should know it’s not very Canadian to call…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher keep up their reporting on Robocon by noting that Elections Canada’s trail seems to have gone cold with…
Friday morning Elections Monitoring Right Here In Canada blogging
Now with subtitles. The Del Mastro campaign contributions Justice Minister Rob Nicholson is staying out of Dean Del Mastro’s business. Nicholson’s response to a request from NDP MP Charlie Angus…
ConCalls: “Categorically False” #RoboCon
Andrew Langhorne, COO of RMG has claimed in court documents that his business did not do what was stated in another affidavit made by a former employee of his company.…
Friday afternoon Elections Canada blogging
Elections Canada, Dean Del Mastro and the Supreme Court of Canada have all been very quiet as far as the stories I’ve been tracking in these regular Friday posts are…
Friday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to end your week. – Tim Harper suggests that the Cons are running out of options to try to push the Gateway pipeline on a thoroughly-opposed public in…
ConCalls: Show The Cards Elections Canada #RoboCon
A lawyer is trying to compel Elections Canada to release more public details of its super slow investigation into the election fraud from May 2011. Apparently the next date we’ll…
Friday morning Scrutinizing the Scrutineers blogging
The two major media pieces on the stories I’ve been following in these Friday morning posts were both more about Elections Canada itself than about the events EC has been…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Guardian reports on the Tax Justice Network’s study on offshoring which finds tens of trillions of dollars to have been funneled…
Friday morning Robocon blogging
The legal challenge sponsored by the Council of Canadians to the federal election results in seven ridings is still alive. The Conservatives had argued that the suit should be dismissed…
Federal Court goes to the crux of the voter suppression issue
In today’s decision, the Court summarizes exactly what the issue is, its importance, and the reason why every Canadian of every political party should be concerned by the alleged vote…
On Elections Canada
When Elections Canada made a last minute submission of evidence to a hearing before Canada’s Supreme Court last week, it seemed to catch a lot of people by surprise. In…