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Manic Monday Links
-James Bow has a good run-down on how campaign ’08 has progressed and Greg Staples has the latest poll numbers up. I’ll be joining several other bloggers to live blog the results as they come in tonight so tune in for what promises to be an eventful election! -In the Greatest Premier contest, it’s Manning […]
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The Western Quarters
UPDATE: And it’s Manning v. Lougheed in an all-Albertan western final In the East, Oliver Mowat and Rene Levesque won a pair of nail biters, by 4 and 6 votes respectively. They will meet in the Eastern finals. Out west, the two quarter-finals get under way today and will run until midnight on Saturday night. […]
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The Conservative Party is not Corrupt. The Conservative Party is not…
Tories broke regulations on election finances, Liberals sayGLORIA GALLOWAYFrom Friday’s Globe and MailAugust 24, 2007 at 4:02 AM EDT OTTAWA — The Liberals accused the federal Conservatives yesterday of exceeding election spending limits by more than a million dollars in the final days of the 2006 campaign by passing off national advertising costs as money […]
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Party Like It’s 1899
Schools and language causing divisions. My, how our country has come a long way in the last hundred years.
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You Know The Summer’s Over…
…when election speculation starts up. The Bloc threatening to bring Harper down over Afghanistan while the Dippers promise to vote against the Throne Speech over Kyoto. Which means we’re in for two months of speculation about “who blinks”.
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Not so Great Moments in Spin
Further to the story of Ed Stelmach’s plunging poll numbers, comes a surprisingly candid explanation from his spokesman, Tom Olsen: The reason the dramatic plunge is “believable,” according to Olsen, is that “hundreds of thousands of new Albertans don’t know the history of Progressive Conservative governments in this province and are spending their time assessing […]
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Up For Grabs
Cameron Strategies has a new poll out and there’s a real Alberta stampede of voters away from Ed Stelmach. Still, the news isn’t all good for the Alberta Liberals, who can’t seem to capitalize on the “free agent voters” out there. The result is a remarkable 36% undecided rate – I don’t think I’ve ever […]
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100 Down…
Yeah, yeah, it’s got a massive right wing bent. But, what the heck – they’ve got Ben Mulroney on the list so it can’t be all bad. The 101 People Screwing up Canada blog has counted down from 101 to 2. So, as an open question, who would you pick as your top 5 or […]
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Quarter-Finals – East
UPDATE: At the close of voting Tuesday night, it was Mowat by 4 votes and Levesque by 6 votes in two of the closest races to date in the contest. The two men will square off in the Eastern semi. The Western quarter-finals should get rolling later today. The first round of Canada’s Best Premier […]
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By Any Other Name
I signed some papers on Tuesday to help the Wild Rose Party get sanctioned. This was purely in a bid to help strengthen democracy and had nothing to do with my desire to see a competitive right wing party capable to stealing votes from the PCs burst onto the scene. I figured with a credible […]