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The Orange Trickle
According to Postmedia, NDP membership numbers have “skyrocketed“: NDP memberships skyrocket heading into leadership vote OTTAWA — The number of NDP members has increased by about 50 per cent in the past few months, a sign that interest is rising as the party approaches its leadership vote next month. In all, there are 128,351 members […]
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#TellVicEverythingExeptWhat’sInTheBill
After finally reading his own bill, it appears Vic Toews has decided to side with the child pornographers: Public Safety Minister Vic Toews says he is surprised to learn that a section of the government’s online surveillance bill provides for “exceptional circumstances” under which “any police officer” can request customer information from a telecommunications service […]
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Who will win the race for Stornoway?
Leadership races are tricky beasts to project, due to their insular nature. There are few meaningful polls, the media is being spun in twelve directions, and the air war rarely corresponds to the ground war. Name recognition and a spiffy social media campaign are a lot less important than having organizers who can deliver hundreds […]
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Mandatory Response
Lorne Gunter’s article on today’s release of short form Census data is so bad that it necessitates a response. Point-by-point: So the 2011 census results are being released today, or at least some results are. Is anyone else as surprised as I am that there is any data to announce? I mean in the summer […]
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Liberal Leadership Straw Poll
After looking at some of the people who might run for Liberal leader (part 1, part 2), I figured it’s worth puting the question to a completely unscientific vote. I’ve listed three questions below. The first asks who you think will run for Liberal leader – by all means, click on as many names as […]
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Speed Dating with the Dippers
Sunday’s NDP debate was a chance to get a first look at the field of candidates, for the 99.9% of Canadians who don’t have the complete collection of Paul Dewar speeches on their Ipod. With nine debaters on stage, it’s impossible to get anything more than a sense of each candidate and what they stand […]
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Liberal Leadership Marathon Runners
I posted 8 Simple Rules for the Liberal Leadership Race a few weeks ago, prompting a few readers to ask for my thoughts on the candidates. The short answer to that is simply: it’s too early to tell. This thing won’t be decided for nearly two years, so predicting the outcome at this point is […]
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What to expect in the Liberal leadership marathon
The best way to think about the Liberal leadership race is like those velodrome cycling races you see at the Olympics. The gun sounds and two cyclists crawl around the track, quietly jockeying for position and looking over their shoulder to see where the field sits. Then, out of the blue, one racer starts sprinting […]
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Great Moments in Spin
If there are ever “spin awards”, Tim Powers deserves the statue: PARLIAMENT HILL—Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s inflammatory decision to stuff two failed Conservative election candidates back into the Senate on Wednesday does “boggle the mind,” Conservative Tim Powers admits, but argues the storm of controversy will focus public attention on the unelected Upper Chamber, stir […]
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ELXN41
This post is just a collection of blog postings on the past election, for the sidebar archives. Consider it a place to visit at any point over the next four years when you’re feeling nostalgic for daily polls, ads, and news stories. POST MORTEMSConservativesNDPLiberalsBlocGreens PREDICTIONS AND PROJECTIONS How the polls and projections fared A round […]