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Fight! Fight! Fight!
It’s gotten to the point where it’s almost weird when John Tory is the one criticizing McGuinty and explaining how the Tories would run Ontario. I thought John had permanently deferred to Van Loan/Flaherty/Poilievre on that. Yesterday it was Pierre Poilievre displaying his usual class in response to the following rather benign criticisms the small […]
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Let’s Get Ready to Rummmmmmmmmbbbbbblllllleeeeee!
With Dion on the ropes, he tags Dalton the Decapitator to enter the ring. Ding! Ding! Ding! McGuinty ridiculed for ‘betrayal’ of auto sector Harper government’s style caught in time warp, McGuinty says Flaherty slams Ontario Liberals McGuinty Issues Warning to PM Meanwhile, fight night is Thursday, with the leaders debate. I’ll be live blogging […]
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McGuinty Majority
McGuinty cruises to an easy majority win – kudos to his team on a well run campaign. As for John Tory…well, it was better than ’93 if nothing else… More interestingly, MMP is getting crushed and the Greens appear to be doing fairly good (but no seats). UPDATE: Tory loses his seat but vows to […]
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Random Links
I’ve been fairly busy of late so I’ve got a bunch of half posts that never materialized and e-mails with links I’ve never got around to posting sitting around. So, here’s a completely random Friday link list: 1. The Better Calgary Coalition has their website up and online. They’ll be commenting on the civic election […]
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This Liberal Outrage Brought to you by FOX News…
The Tories have a pretty funny You Tube ad up about he Ontario election. Mind you, given copyright laws, they might be needing one of these soon:
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Monday Night News Hits
-The Ontario election is off and running…after being off and running for the past few months. I’d be betting on a McGuinty majority. –SES has a town hall set up for the Ontario election where, amongst other things, you can try and beat the experts with your predictions. Sounds like fun. -Stephen Harper has Senate […]
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Morning Round-Up
1. Yesterday, Dave Bronconnier declared September as “yellow ribbon month” in Calgary. While the timing is a bit suspect, rumour has it that October will be declared “provincial/municipal funding agreement awareness month” or “celebration of overpass construction month”. 2. Brian Mulroney is in the news for “lashing out” against Pierre Trudeau. To be clear, this […]
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Two Stories…
…both of which the Grant Devine Fan Club will love: 1. OTTAWA — Special Liberal fundraising events have so far failed to put much of a dent in the almost $4 million in debts racked up by 11 former leadership contenders. The first event in Halifax two weeks ago — a cocktail reception featuring Leader […]
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Monday Morning Round Up
1. Oh, sure, he’s all “Mr. I Can Take a Punch” until Harry Rosen uses him in a cartoon. Watch out Aislin! [Reader Challenge: A big kudos to whoever can find a picture of the ad online. An even bigger kudos to whoever can find some sort of proof that Stephen’s stylist has picked out […]
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Random Thoughts on the MMP Ontario Referendum
1929. The year above was the last time the Tories got more votes in Ontario than the Liberal and NDP cumulative vote. Just thought I’d toss that out there.