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Adspam
And people thought Christian Paradis wouldn’t be able to handle Public Affairs – it seems he has taken the torch from Michael Fortier and…refused to make the torch public until a take out the trash day comes along: OTTAWA — Ottawa’s advertising budget doubled to more than $80-million in the first full year of the […]
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On To The Quarters
The provincial races turned into Frank McKenna sized routs, with Duffy’s four favourites all advancing. ’76 Quebec (1) over ’35 Alberta (8): 81% to 19%’44 Saskatchewan (2) over ’52 British Columbia (7): 84% to 16%’43 Ontario (3) over 1867 Ontario (6): 77% to 23%’60 Quebec (4) over ’89 Newfoundland (5): 78% to 22% This sets […]
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Rumours to Rest
I never really understood the logic of the Tories proroguing parliament for a late return in the fall so this should hopefully end the speculation about it. “We have no intention of proroguing” -Peter Van Loan on Question Period today
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One Word Posts
Deficit
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The Big Mo
The ALP leadership race has it’s second candidate, former Edmonton McClung MLA Mo Elsalhy. From Mo’s facebook page: Hi all. Join me as I make it official. On Friday, July 25th, at 12:30 at the front steps of the Legislature, I will confirm my intention to challenge for the leadership of the Alberta Liberal Party. […]
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From the home office in Toronto-Danforth, the top 10 reasons…
So I trekked out to Jack’s neck of the woods last night for the Kinsella Young Liberal event. First off, full marks to the Lang Gang for another fun event, to follow up their wildly successful time raiser earlier this month. I always like underdog campaigns because you can have some fun with them and […]
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Rerun Season
It’s a slow July news day…Harper hasn’t called the by elections yet…so how to fill the political section of newspapers? Election Speculation! I must say, the “Dion hints at election” story has been used so many times over the past year, there must be some template laying around where you just plug in a quote, […]
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And so it begins…
I’ll begin ALP leadership profiles as soon as I can think of a catchy title for that post series… MEDIA ADVISORY (2008/07/22) MLA Dave Taylor to Announce Plans Regarding Liberal Leadership On Wednesday MLA for Calgary-Currie and Deputy Leader of the Alberta Liberal Party Dave Taylor will announce plans regarding his future with the Alberta […]
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Provincial Vote
With the first round of federal elections done, we move to the provincial side of the bracket for a series of intriguing match-ups. Once again, the seeds have been selected from the list of reader nominations by Fights of our Lives author John Duffy. Voting will close at 10 pm on Wednesday night. 1935 Alberta […]