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Wikiality
The Globe & Mail has an article on Government of Canada computers being used to edit wikipedia entries, thus altering reality. Given the amount of editing that happens on Afghanistan memos by this government, that’s not too surprising. Most of the edits are fairly mundane – Jason Kenney and Dan McTeague have criticism replaced with […]
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Finishing off the Quarter-Finals
UPDATE: It’s Lesage over Wells by a comfortable 204-102 vote margin. Lesage will take on a prominent Cabinet Minister of his, Rene Levesque, in the quarter-finals. In the other match-up, the left wing decided to take up the Grant Devine cause this time but a late surge ended Sanjaya’s run, giving it to Ernest Manning […]
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Obvious Questions
Does Nunavik constitute a nation within a unified Quebec? Would Jean Charest be willing to recognize them as such in the National Assembly?
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Best Premier Update
After the predictable wild ride in the Douglas/Lougheed shoot-out, I thought this would be a good time to give an update on the Best Premier contest. First, the clash of prairie titans. Lougheed and Douglas were locked in a tight battle, with Tommy holding a slight lead up until mid-afternoon today when legions of Peter […]
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Shuffle Bored
Actually, it’s looking like it won’t be a boring shuffle at all, but I really wanted to use that as a title… From every indication, it will be a major shuffle which means I was wrong that it would be a small shuffle, although I was only off by four days on the date. I’m […]
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More Voting
Two more first round matchups to vote on, as a pair of Atlantic Canadian heavyweights square off in one matchup, and two polarizing figures from the West lock horns in the other. Advancing so far are Oliver Mowatt (12), Ed Schreyer (7), Rene Levesque (16), and WAC Bennett (14). Voting for this round will close […]
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Open Thread on MMP
A lot of Libloggers are getting into the MMP debate. Since political geeks love nothing more than to debate electoral reform, I figured I’d toss open a thread on the topic for people to weigh in. I personally don’t have strong feelings on the topic. I’ve always had a soft spot for the first past […]
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More First Round Battles
UPDATE: Mowat and Schreyer cruise to easy wins. After a pair of upsets in the first two quarter-final Best Premier matchups, the favourites are certainly nervous. Today, I set up two more knock-out rounds. Voting will close Sunday morning. Oliver Mowat (12) vs. John Robarts (5) Oliver MowatOntario (1872-96)Career Highlights: As Premier, Mowat fought the […]
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MacKay to Industry (e3)
More insane Cabinet shuffle speculation: Several Conservative sources suggest the most senior ministries could be in for a housecleaning next week. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has summoned every minister to Ottawa on Monday morning. Sources say Harper could shuffle more than a dozen cabinet positions to put a new face on his year-and-a-half old Conservative […]
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"It’s not so much that I want to kill him…"
I’ve done a blogging powerpoint workshop at Liberal events once or twice and my favourite part of it is the “blogging dos and don’ts“. The punchline to that section is “Don’t compare Olivia Chow to a dog”. Well, it looks like there’s a new blogging don’t that deserves mentioning. “Don’t threaten to kill Stephen Harper“