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May Day
Sources say Elizabeth May won’t be allowed into the debates this time around. Personally, I feel May did little more than take up air time in 2008 so I don’t have a problem with this decision. The flip side is that she’s now going to take up a ton of air time between now and […]
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Most Predictable Event of the Election
Stephen Harper plays a Beatles tune on the piano:
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Ad Watch: Going After the Tim Hortons Crowd
Actually, that should read “Tim Hortons Crowding“: Personally, I don’t really like the ad, but it strikes me as one that could work. The ad is on an issue voters care about. It’s got Jack sounding confident in front of a big flag. Plus, attack ads done in a “cartoon style” like this seem less […]
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Higher Learning
The Liberals have rolled out their first major policy plank of the campaign – the Learning Passport, which will mean $1,000 a year to every student attending post-secondary education. The biggest knock on Ignatieff has always been that voters don’t know what he stands for. With that in mind, the Liberal platform will be especially […]
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Now we know why Harper is building all those jails…
…he needs a war room for his top political staff. Hat Tip – tGPOitHotW
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Job Opening
The above is a now-pulled Craigslist ad, looking for right-wing blog trolls. Among the job qualifications, they want someone able to “make up facts” and deliver “personal insults”. Presumably, if you’re really good at this, you eventually get promoted to the Tory war room. The job application calls for a “100 word post” in response […]
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Start Gaffing
The RevMod gaffe-o-meter is up and rolling again, to keep track of campaign gaffes. You can read about and enter the contest here, and review past scores and winners here. Paul Martin’s 33 in 2006, like DiMaggio’s 56 in 41, is one of those records that may never be broken…
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Stephen Harper Family Tax Cut
The first Tory policy announcement of the campaign: The Conservatives will make the first policy announcement of the campaign Monday morning – a family tax cut that will hope to woo parents with children under 18. Stephen Harper will kick off the day at a family residence in Sidney, B.C. to sell ‘Stephen Harper’s Family […]
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Mark Your Ballots
Last chance to enter the Calgary Grit election pool – contest closes at midnight tonight.
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Le Quebec a le pouvoir de changer les choses
Michael Ignatieff reminds us that he was the one who plunged us into the very unpleasant “nation” debate: