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Morning Round-Up
1. Yesterday, Dave Bronconnier declared September as “yellow ribbon month” in Calgary. While the timing is a bit suspect, rumour has it that October will be declared “provincial/municipal funding agreement awareness month” or “celebration of overpass construction month”. 2. Brian Mulroney is in the news for “lashing out” against Pierre Trudeau. To be clear, this […]
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Has Anyone Booked Kinsella Into Canada AM?
…cuz I suspect Barney might need to be brought out of retirement. In fairness to John Tory, he only said that creationism can be tought side by side with evolution.
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Four Quick Hits
Municipal, provincial, federal, and American political links on this Labour Day Monday. Municipal: The Alnoor Kassam campaign will be running the first batch of radio ads this week, on traffic. They’re kind of cute, so feel free to give them a listen here. Provincial: Apparently Ed Stelmach is getting the always unpleasant Mr. Dithers label, […]
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The Final Four
UPDATE: The final is set. Oliver Mowat crushed Rene Levesque 602-97, while Lougheed outdid his felow Albertan 1620-1543. So it will be Lougheed versus Mowat in the final. We’ve reached the final four in the Best Premier contest. Voting remains open until 10 pm Mountain Wednesday night. Thursday I’ll post the final battle which will […]
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Write Your Own Punchline
Oh man… The beaver is one of Canada’s national symbols and now a senior Liberal wants to make the puffin the symbol of the country’s self-proclaimed natural governing party. Liberal deputy leader Michael Ignatieff says the industrious little seabird — with its black and white plumage, distinctive striped beak and orange feet — is a […]
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Meanwhile, in Saskatchewan…
The NDP’s “same old Sask party” website has an attack add against the Sask Party, using the wolf in sheep’s clothing pitch. The add says the Sask Party stood for a number of things they have since backed away from: Private Health CarePrivatization of Crown CorporationsMaking Saskatchewan like Alberta Making Saskatchewan like Alberta? Like, rich?
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Nu-Cu-Lar
The nuclear debate has hit Alberta like a…nah…that’s too easy a simile to use. Anyways, nuclear power is the hot topic with a proposed nuclear power plant being discussed to power the oilsands. As expected, politicians are distancing themselves from this proposal as if it were radioactive. (that one I couldn’t resist) I think the […]
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Our New Overloards
The new Rhinocerous government’s throne speech was read today and it was…about what you’d expect. James Bow has all the other news from their first days in office, while Chucker Canuck speculates on the Tory leadership race, after Harper’s resignation and James Moore being named interim leader. I heard from a friend who works (or…I […]
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Polls
The Globe has a very detailed poll out today on perceptions of Stephen Harper. There are a lot of interesting questions in there but the quick and dirty of it is that Harper isn’t all that popular with Canadians but Canadians are fairly happy with his government as a whole (at least on the right/track […]
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Election Night Live Blogging
With a lot of Canadians restless and a rare August vote, the results of tonight’s vote are certainly up in the air. Safe to say, we’re in for a third straight minority government but, despite the latest polls, I think Dion might be able to surprise a few people and eek it out if the […]