The State of Play in #TorDan
Announced this week, Toronto-Danforth voters will head to the polls on March 12th 19th to vote for a new MP after the death of NDP Leader Jack Layton, who had…
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Two Candidates Declared For Toronto-Danforth Liberals
According to the T-D Liberals, Grant Gordon and Trifon Haitas have been officially declared as candidates for the Liberal nomination in the upcoming Toronto-Danforth by-election to replace Jack Layton. They’ll…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Thomas Walkom puts the Cons’ anti-environmental hysteria in perspective by noting how our cabinet ministers are going out of their way to sound…
Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to end your weekend. – Chris Selley rightly points out that for all the damage the Cons can do in a term of majority government, we shouldn’t overstate…
Toronto-Danforth goings on
The NDP candidates are lining up. There are two now, a former assistant to Jack Layton, Claire Prashaw, and as of today, an Osgoode Hall law professor, Craig Scott. Not…
Toronto Danforth watch
As we know, Harper has yet to call the by-election in Toronto Danforth. Given that we’re nearing the end of November, it’s unlikely to be called now until early in…
Note on the eventual Toronto-Danforth by-election…
I agree with something posted awhile back by Globe and Mail columnist Robert Silver, that the upcoming by-election is a chance to do something different - specifically, the attempt at…
Toronto Danforth
Reviewing this item in the Globe, Taber's piece, "Liberals hope to paint Layton’s Toronto riding red again," it's not clear how much of the hype there on Liberals possibly taking…
A more local look at successors to Jack Layton
Plenty of speculation so far about potential successors to Jack Layton as federal NDP leader, but I haven't seen much about potential NDP candidates to follow Jack in Toronto-Danforth, so…