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Cover Up
New Liberal radio ads out:
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On the bright side, Ignatieff was picked as "the leader you’d most like to attend an Isaiah Berlin leture with"
Angus Reid has a fun poll out, where they ask “the beer question”, amongst others. In it, we learn that the mustached socialist is the “jock” of Canadian politics – he’s the one voters would like to have a beer with, or have on their sports team. Harper wins most of the “prime ministerial” questions […]
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Moment of the Decade: #6 Confidence Vote Mayhem
If you missed it, I asked readers to nominate, then vote, on Canada’s top political moment of the decade. Over the first two two weeks of the new decade, I’m counting down the top 10 vote getters. Next week, the top 5 (in alphabetical order) – Adscam, Coalition, Iraq, Merger, and Same Sex Marriage. It […]
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Today in Prorogation
1. From Tory MP MP Brent Rathgeber, comes this darling quote: “Democracy and Parliament are not being sidestepped — they are only being suspended.” I look forward to the campaign signs around St. Albert next election: “Suspend Democracy – Elect Rathgeber!” 2. The Economist weighs in, with a critical editorial on Harper’s decision to go […]
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Memory Lane
From a Liberal press release, some oldies and goodies: “The Liberals, apparently, want to prorogue the House. They want to run out of town, get out of town just one step ahead of the sheriff. Is the Liberal government committed to staying here as planned throughout the month of November so that it can be […]
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Moment of the Decade: #7 The 2006 Federal Election
If you missed it, I asked readers to nominate, then vote, on Canada’s top political moment of the decade. Over the next two weeks, I’ll be counting down the top 10 vote getters. For about two weeks, everyone who liked politics started talking in staccato: “There’s no mayonnaise. On my sandwich. No mayonnaise. In Canada. […]
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The Facebook Rebellion
There’s been a lot of back and forth over just how meaningful the ever-growing “Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament” group really is. Membership was at 73,367 when I started writing this post…I imagine it will have grown by the time I’m done. On the one side, the Toronto Star has adopted its usual understated approach, blasting […]
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Moment of the Decade: #8 The Clarity Act
If you missed it, I asked readers to nominate, then vote, on Canada’s top political moment of the decade. Over the next two weeks, I’ll be counting down the top 10 vote getters. When I first announced this contest, one of the e-mails I got argued against the inclusion of the Clarity Act on the […]
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Political Moment of the Decade: #9 Dion Stuns the Favourites
If you missed it, I asked readers to nominate, then vote, on Canada’s top political moment of the decade. Over the next two weeks, I’ll be counting down the top 10 vote getters. It’s overall impact on the decade is debatable. In retrospect, it seems likely that Stephen Harper would have destroyed whomever crawled out […]
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Countdown
72… 71… 70… 69…68… Two legislature members from Alberta’s governing Progressive Conservatives are defecting to the Wildrose Alliance, a fledgling political party gathering momentum in the province. Calgary-Fish Creek MLA Heather Forsyth and Airdrie-Chestermere MLA Rob Anderson announced the move Monday morning at a Wildrose Alliance news conference.