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Stephen Harper Family Tax Cut
The first Tory policy announcement of the campaign: The Conservatives will make the first policy announcement of the campaign Monday morning – a family tax cut that will hope to woo parents with children under 18. Stephen Harper will kick off the day at a family residence in Sidney, B.C. to sell ‘Stephen Harper’s Family […]
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Mark Your Ballots
Last chance to enter the Calgary Grit election pool – contest closes at midnight tonight.
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Le Quebec a le pouvoir de changer les choses
Michael Ignatieff reminds us that he was the one who plunged us into the very unpleasant “nation” debate:
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Day 2: Return to the Coalition Crisis
We’ve known it was coming for two years. As expected, Stephen Harper jumped out of the gate trying to make this election all about the coalition. Initially, the opposition parties played along. Jack Layton made it perfectly clear the NDP was for sale or rent. Gilles Duceppe prattled on about his 2004 deal with Stephen […]
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(60% of) Canada Votes
And we’re off. At least I assume we are – I’m away from e-mail today and this was drafted up last night with an 11 am timestamp. I wouldn’t put it past Stephen Harper to cancel the election so as to ensure Canada’s economic recovery stays on track. While I’ll no doubt be busy this […]
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Calgary Grit Election Pool – 20 Questions
Anyone can predict seat totals or popular vote. That’s just the end result. The real excitement in an election is the journey – the campaign itself. With that in mind, I present the third (almost) annual Calgary Grit Potpourri election pool. Twenty questions to determine just how well you can predict the upcoming campaign. While […]
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This post has been approved by the Harper government
A scathing video from EnoughHarper attacking Stephen Harper for his secretive government. Here it is, for all of Canada to enjoy!
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Election 2011 Primer
With the government almost certain to fall in the next 48 hours, what should we expect between now and election day? Last week, I looked at the election calendar – today, a look at the strategies the parties are likely to employ: The Conservatives Official Slogan: Here for Canada (unlike that American bastard Michael Ignatieff) […]
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How it ends
There was a lot of procedural wrangling today, but the end results is that it appears the government will fall this Friday, sometime after 1:30 pm Eastern, on the following Liberal motion: That the House agrees with the finding of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs that the Government is in contempt of […]
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Tory Budget Priorities
Hat Tip – Enough Harper