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Even Stephen
The Globe’s front-page headline of “HARPER GETS EVEN” was somewhat more charitable than what I would have run with. But, then again, “HARPER GOES AGAINST EVERYTHING HE’S EVER SAID IN ‘UNDEMOCRATIC’ AND HYPOCRITICAL MOVE” might not have fit above the fold. So, fair enough. Still, I look forward to future headlines such as “HARPER GETS […]
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Same Old, Same Old
“As everyone in this room knows, it has become a right of passage for aspiring leaders and prime ministers to promise Senate reform – on their way to the top – but once they are elected, Senate reform quickly falls to the bottom of the Government’s agenda. Nothing ever gets done.”-Stephen Harper, Speech on Senate […]
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Entitled to their Entitlements: 2009 Senate Edition
Then: Tories pledge Senate reform, fixed election datesCalling Canada’s appointed Senate a relic of the 19th century, Harper said a Senate chair should be occupied by someone with a democratic mandate. Now: Harper to appoint close Tory backers to SenateCampaign chair Doug Finley and long-time communications assistant Carolyn Stewart-Olsen to go to Red Chamber in […]
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Where are they now?
Via Full Pundit: These, then, are the people with whom Dumont has thrown in his lot. And he might be having second thoughts after seeing what they’ve done to him in a promotional video for his show, Dumont 360 (snipurl.com/ qu9lj). For 10 seconds, it shows Dumont in slow motion pointing, posing, jogging (!) and […]
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Let’s Make a Deal?
LAYTON MEETS WITH PM IN ADVANCE OF FALL SESSION Aug 25, 2009 OTTAWA – New Democrat Leader Jack Layton will meet with Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Langevin Block to discuss the fall session of Parliament. Layton plans to speak to reporters immediately following the meeting. There’s a lot of speculation there could be a […]
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A Good 20 Hours for Ignatieff
A Sunday night 11-point deficit turns into a statistical tie by Monday afternoon. At this rate, he’ll be approaching Diefenbaker ’58 numbers by mid-week! OTTAWA_ A new poll suggests the Conservatives and Liberals remain locked in a dead heat amid rumblings of a possible fall election. The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey put the parties in […]
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Shockingly, the Iqaluit typo hasn’t proven to be a game changer for the Liberals
Ipsos shows the biggest Tory lead since the coalition days: CPC 39%Lib 28%NDP 14%Green 10%BQ 7% It bears noting that every other poll published over the past month has had the parties neck–and–neck.
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World Wide Web War
Via Kinsella, comes today’s Star article declaring “Mission Accomplished” for the mainstream media in their war with the rogue blog rebels: We are witnessing the triumph of the allegedly extinction-bound MSM over their cyberspace detractors. The economic reality is that the 224-year old Times of London boasts vastly more “brand-name awareness,” as marketers say, than […]
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St. Paul’s vote a national battlefront?
That was the Star headline this morning. Since they included a question mark at the end, I’ll answer them: no. Putting aside that most of the “senior anonymous insiders” quoted in the story are simply trying to manage expectations, let’s assume for a second the Tories do win St. Paul’s. They won’t, but we did […]