Bloquing blogs on the trail
A couple of new websites have popped up in the past week. In Quebec, a few federalist students at Universite de Montreal have set up their own anti-Bloc website – http://www.bloquequebecois.org – the parody site looks almost exactly like the real party website: http://www.bloc.org except it’s filled with tongue and cheek criticism that the party […]
Swing ridings across Canada
Swing ridings: winning candidate won with a slim margin of victory. The ridings are heavily targeted by the runner-up. Winning party is shown in the parentheses. Up to 30 are shown, with a maximum margin of victory of 15%. * Indicates incumbent not running again Liberal Targeted Swing Ridings: 1. Simcoe-Grey, Ont. (Cons.) 0.2% 2. […]
Liberal stronghold up for grabs: Tories banking on former Harris Cabinet minister to win in Ottawa West-Nepean
Ottawa West-Nepean has been a Liberal stronghold since 1988 and candidate Lee Farnworth wants to keep it that way. Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan lent Ms. Farnworth some help last week when she was in town visiting the Pinecrest Queensway Health and Community Services Centre. Liberal incumbent Marlene Catterall, who announced her retirement earlier this […]
Whistleblowing former bureaucrat Cutler dodges controversy, targets Grits
Rookie Grit MP David McGuinty says few people are talking about the sponsorship scandal in riding. He is best known as the unassuming, bookish whistleblowing civil servant who refused to go along with the sponsorship program, but Allan Cutler has become a star candidate for the Conservatives who plans to use his political inexperience as […]
House curator unveils 900 works in first-ever look on website: Joe Clark only Prime Minister missing from official PM portraits, but beginning talks on his painting
Of the over 5,000 artifacts in the collection of the House of Commons, some 900 are featured on the Parliamentary website. Only those with a keen eye and a passion for art may notice the Auguste Rodin sculpture in the House Speakers’ Portrait Gallery, or admire the imps carved on the posts in the government […]
Incumbents and candidates encourage supporters to vote soon
Even before the advance polls scheduled to take place on Jan. 13, 14 and Jan. 16, voters across the country can cast their votes by going to the riding’s returning officer’s office. Incumbent MPs and candidates from all parties across the country running in the Jan. 23 federal election are encouraging their political supporters to […]
Whistleblowers were sold down the river by Parliamentarians who publicly pledged to protect them, Senate rams it through
In a play of pure political expediency and a bid to take public credit for having implemented whistleblower protection, Conservative Senators adopted the position of ‘Get the bill passed and fix it later.’ This isn’t right. Whistleblowers have become accustomed to being betrayed by their employers. Being sold down the river by Parliamentarians who publicly […]
NDP mount election campaign for holiday truce
New Democratic Party national campaign officials are conducting negotiations behind the scenes with the Conservatives, the Liberals and the Bloc to come up with a holiday season truce. NDP director of communications Brad Lavigne confirmed last week that his party wants to suspend all national campaigns during the holiday season, but he refused to give […]
Liberals scale down presence in Eastern Quebec ridings
But federal Liberals insist they aren’t throwing in the towel outside Montreal-area ridings. The federal Liberals insist they haven’t thrown in the towel in Eastern Quebec ridings where the Bloc Quebecois dominated in the last election. But in the early going, the party’s organization in Quebec City is only a shell of what it was […]
‘You can’t call your opponent an SOB one day and then have to sit down and negotiate with him in a reasonable manner the next’
Ed Broadbent doesn’t practise any religion.The NDP is his church. After 37 involved in and out of the House in federal politics, the retiring MP says he still has the same strong belief as when he was first elected on June 25, 1968; that is, to influence change. “The principle vehicles for change for citizens […]
