Conservative Robocall Double Standard
If a single standard is good, a double standard must be better. On March 5 with his party embroiled in the Robocall scandal Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro stood up…
Robocon
Vancouver Observer Gives Intimate Look Into Conservative Suppression Tactics
Orwell had never been Robocalled Emma Pullman, Director of Research at Leadnow.ca, has published an article in the Vancouver Observer that promises to blow the deflections of the Conservative Party…
Harper reverses on new audit powers for Elections Canada
“Tories agree to new audit powers for Elections Canada.” The Conservative government has reversed course and now says it will support an NDP motion to give Elections Canada increased audit…
RoboCon: Fading
What are you kidding? RoboCon isn’t fading. This scandal started before May 2, 2011 with harassing phone calls to Liberals in Volpe’s riding (see CBC story if curious), and caught…
Manning Centre’s voter suppression school
Must read article from the Vancouver Observer on the creepy Manning Centre’s 2010 ‘campaign school’. Here’s a little of what one attendee, John Fryer, discovered. (emphasis mine). The conversation that…
Robocon: Were our laws broken?
Misinformation is in the air, from the Tory front and back benches to journalists. Some is deliberate, designed to distract the public’s attention from misdeeds; others are perhaps simply mistakes.…
RoboCon – Lets Examine Some Of The Facts
Elections Canada distributes voters lists to all parties that are running at the start of the election and a send update list three days before the official election date. Elections…
Roboscam: Bob Rae has 13 days to protect Canada’s democracy by stopping the clock
The clock is ticking and there are less than three weeks to go (around 13 days as of today) before voters lose their right to appeal to the courts under…
Mostly competent campaigning?
A number of my colleagues in the blogosphere are pointing to this interview with Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott this morning. As the Saskatchewan MP describes it, the Conservative Party of…
Wednesday Morning Robocon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor dig deeper into the story behind Robocon alias Pierre Poutine. – Maurice Vellacott admits that the voter lists…
RoboCon – It Doesn’t Matter One Rotting Dingo’s Kidney,…
Let’s be perfectly clear here, it Doesn’t Matter One Rotting Dingo’s Kidney whether the people who perpetrated the voter suppression crime in last years election are linked to the CPC,…
If CPoC Central Contols Local Voters Lists
…as Tory MP Vellacott indicates, then this makes it more likely that Robocon was planned by someone close to the center of the party rather than via fringe players. It…
Word to Peggy Wente And Comic Relief: A Cheesy Cartoon And Latest From Montreal Icons, Bowser and Blue
Keep thinking you live in a democracy, dear. What’s happened to my country? I went away for a couple of weeks and all hell broke loose. I came back to…
I was out, finished! and I took an arrow to the knee
I had given up on blogging and then I dabbled with it for a bit, off an on. The reasons for leaving are complicated,… various events in the blogosphere sour…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – In the latest on Robocon, John Ivison rightly notes that the scandal figures to give many Canadians a long-overdue first look at…
RoboCon – If The CPC Have Nothing To Hide, Why Are They Hiding?
The one thing that always amazes me about Politics, when you are accused of doing something wrong, and if you didn’t do it (ADScam, In and Out, RoboCon whatever) why…
Dean Del Mastro: Knower of Everything
On previous episodes of Dean Del Mastro: Knower of Everything, Dean didn’t trust the survey results in a Peterborough newspaper poll, so he commissioned his own robo-push poll, in an…
Robocon: Crushing poll results for Tories on the voter suppression in the last election
Hat tip to Kinsella for pointing the way to this March 6, Angus Reid poll. Almost two out of three Canadians believe there were many voter suppression telephone calls during…
Robocon: Bob Rae has 14 days to protect Canada’s democracy by stopping the clock
The clock is ticking and there are less than three weeks to go (around 14 days as of today) before voters lose their right to appeal to the courts under…
RoboCon and VikiLeaks
Surprisingly, the Canadian government is dealing with other scandals it’s instigated. Vikileaks was the subject again today, where the Speaker ruled that Anonymous (an unrepresented collective of hackers and political…