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Quebec
It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that Paul Wells and Andrew Coyne have the best analysis of the Quebec by elections this morning. Building a bit on Coyne’s post, here is the average change in popular vote for the respective parties in the three by elections (compared to election night 2006): Conservatives +10.2%NDP +10.2%Liberals […]
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Zut Alors!
Wow. That sure sucked. Pretty impossible to spin this one. Huge wins for the Tories and Dippers. Pretty brutal nights for the Liberals and Bloc. I don’t think anything else needs to be said.
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Who you know in the P.O.
It’s been a rough weekend for Ed Stelmach. The private eye spying scandal (or, perhaps, the “Hall & Oates scandal“) continues to grow and, now, front page headlines in Calgary and Edmonton are blasting him hard on patronage. It appears half the board appointments in the province are card carrying Tories and, while they certainly […]
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The Panic Button
There has certainly been a bit of panic in Liberal land since the “Outremont Poll” came out on Friday, showing the NDP in front. Given the strong candidate the NDP is fielding and what I’m hearing is a very disorganized ground campaign by the Liberals, this might not be as surprising as it would seem […]
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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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(18% of) Calgary Votes
Calgary’s municipal election gets off and rolling officially on Monday but things are already heating up. So, yes, my Toronto readers, go read one of the many other liblogers blood feuding over MMP, today’s post is all for Calgarians. 1. Ward 1 challenger Carol Neuman has some absolutely hilarious posters on her facebook group that […]
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NOW
And the winner, with 53.2% of the vote, is… Peter Lougheed. In a photo finish, Alberta’s first PC Premier has been crowned as Canada’s best Premier, defeating Ontario’s Premier for much of the 19th Century, Oliver Mowat. Lougheed won a wild battle with Tommy Douglas in the first round, before knocking off Ed Schreyer and […]
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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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Best Premier Show Down
After 10 regional contests and 14 knock-out matches, it has all come down to this. Peter Lougheed versus Oliver Mowat for the title of Canada’s Best Premier. Voting will remain open until Monday night at 11 pm Mountain time, when a winner will be crowned. The Matchup: Peter Lougheed squeaked out of the first round […]
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Conservative Adscam
I wish I could take credit for that title term but it appears John Ivison coined it first. Regardless of what you call it, this certainly strikes me as a newsworthy issue. For those unfamiliar, Jason Cherniak has a fairly detailed breakdown, complete with snazzy graphs and everything. The short of it is that the […]