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Text We Can!
Has anyone else been incredibly excited at every incoming text message they’ve gotten over the past 48 hours? I keep glancing down expecting a “sorry 2 keep u waitng – my vp is biden“, even when the aforementioned text comes in at 11 pm. Soon…soon… UPDATE: According to the CNN ticker, Bayh, Clinton and Kaine […]
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The Harper Exemption
Stephen Harper has announced that he may decide to go ahead and call an election, despite his own fixed election date law that forbids him to do just that. Apparently it’s more of a “fixed election guideline” than a“fixed election law”. I wonder if it applies to the rest of Harper’s democratic reform package?Corporate donations […]
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So Long As Grants To Wannabe Hockey Historians Aren’t Cut…
Tories slashing $44.8-million in arts spending
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Last Chance to Vote
Voting in the provincial final closes at 10 pm today and it’s a close one between the separatists and the socialists… UPDATE: In a squeaker, ’44 Sask takes it with 50.6% of the vote. That election will take on the ’88 federal campaign this Sunday for the title of Canada’s Biggest Election.
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Poll Problems
Unrepentant Old Hippie investigates the rather suspect poll released on the Guelph by election today.
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Today’s Word is "Inaction Action"
Stephen Harper has learned the hard way that when you promise to do things, people get upset when you don’t actually do them. I can understand Harper’s naivete on this – after all, Canadians kept re-electing the Liberals for 13 years despite breaking promises at the rate Michael Phelps breaks world records. But the missing […]
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And Then There Were Four
Yet another by election has been called – this one for September 22nd in Don Valley West, to fill John Godfrey’s seat. For past vote results and demographics, Pundits Guide is the place to go. Last time around, the Liberals took it by a 53-33 margin – I’d expect that gap to narrow a bit […]
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That’s More Like It
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Nomination Watch
David Orchard beats out Joan Beatty for the Desnethe–Missinippi-Churchill River Liberal nomination.
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V is for Victory
Back in May, I posted about the Liberal Party’s Victory Fund and invited readers to suggest what riding I should donate to. Danielle Takacs wrote up a post in support of Brant, Saskatoon-Humboldt sent me a top ten list, and I got compelling e-mails in support of Saskatoon-Wanuskewin, Fredericton, Burlington and a host of others. […]