Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Yes, there was huge news in Robocon yesterday, with Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand rightly declaring the Cons’ fraudulent vote suppression to be…
Robocon
Did voter suppression change the results of the NDP leadership election?
For the2012 NDP leadership vote to be considered legitimate, the NDP needs to employwhatever devices it can (including resort to Elections Canada and the RCMP) toput to bed the valid…
Robocon: Lest we forget – The Elections Canada CEO report to Parliament
KadyO’Malley did the country a service by refusing to be sidetracked by Harper’sscheduling of the interim reportto the House by ChiefElectoral Officer Marc Mayrand for the same day as thebudget.…
ConCalls: Live #PROC Committee – LiveBlog
Watch live on CBC.ca Kady: In what can only be described as a deeply unfortunate bit of scheduling business, Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand is set to make his first…
Parade of Disgraceful Conservatives
The Conservative Party of Canada could use better people to back it, and its ideology. The current support crowd online has some pretty obvious, and significant flaws: threatening lawsuits (both…
RoboCoke: Fun Contest to Celebrate Dying Democracy
I dislike both Coke and iTunes, thinking the world would be a better place without either of them. I hate RoboCon a lot more though, because our country would be…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Fred Wilson weighs in on Thomas Mulcair’s mandate as the NDP’s new leader: (M)any progressives with no interest whatsoever in a “Blairist” agenda…
One Piece At a Time
… and it didn’t cost me a dime. – Johnny Cash I went to the latest Design Regina public forum Tuesday night, at Artesian on 13th Ave. That building is…
Why do this if you aren’t trying to hide something?
This action by the Conservatives is about as likely it being coincidental as the chances of me voting Conservative are: Canada’s chief electoral officer is being called before MPs to…
The Council of Canadians’ Magnificent Seven
Canada’s Woodward & Bernstein, Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor, of Postmedia News, today bring us news about The Council of Canadians’ Magnificent Seven. In the 1960 western The Magnificent Seven,…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor report that the Council of Canadians is leading the charge in challenging election results which may have…
ConCalls: Tough on Crime
Information is the lifeblood of democracy. Stephen Harper knows that, he said it. Ask yourself why the Chief Electoral Officer’s report on electoral fraud this week, is being given to…
7 Robocon lawsuits filed
The latest from McMaher: The Council of Canadians has launched legal challenges of May federal election results in seven ridings, on behalf of electors living in those ridings. The ridings…
ConCalls: Write CBC and other Media
Dear CBC: As a Canadian citizen, it is with great alarm that I’ve watched the RoboCon scandal unfold. The report to Parliament by Marc Mayrand, Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer scheduled…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week… – Remember the Cons’ talking point that we should assume all of the Robocon calls which purported to come from Lib candidates could safely…
ConCalls: Not Serious? Get Serious!
It should be obvious to most people that the Liberal Party of Canada isn’t behind the vast majority of illegal phone calls made to voters during the May 2, 2011…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your weekend. – pogge rounds up last week’s news on the Robocon front – while the outside attack on the NDP’s leadership vote suggests that the…
ConCalls: Poutine’s Email Address
I’ve emailed Postmedia for clarification, were there 2 or 3 emails? The account was registered to someone using the email address pierres1630@gmail.com. The order required PayPal to turn over account…
ConCalls: More Details about Poutine
The Globe and Mail has some interesting bites about Poutine’s interaction with RackNine. Apparently another message impersonating the Liberals was recorded, but not used. Other calls across the country where…
Friday morning Robocon blogging
I was off the grid for a couple of days and have spent this morning trying to pick up the threads of this story. I’m relying primarily on other bloggers…