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Canada Election 2008 blog watch: II

p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- On Monday we ran an item excerpting from various blogs centering on the upcoming elections. Here’s another installment, with new blogs added: »»» rabble.ca’s election coverage - http://election.rabble.ca/ Labour and social movements have made a difference There is one very strong conclusion to draw from Canada’s five election campaign. Don’t draw [...]

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Advance notice

David Akin posts about the drop in turnout at the advance polls for the upcoming federal election, as well as some interesting riding-level trends. But I'm not sure that his conclusions match the data he presents. As Akin notes, high turnout is generally assumed be better for challengers for incumbents. And in that respect, it seems highly significant to me that turnout seems to be highest in Con-held...

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Rewarding greed and stupidity

John Bird and John Fortune explain how markets really work (via Ace). Canadian Flea-readers should...

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NDP on the ballot in all 308 ridings

p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- One could be forgiven thinking there are but five parties contesting the 2008 Canadian elections: the Conservatives, Liberals, NDP, Green party and Bloc Quebecois. But that’s not the case, not even nearly, David Akin makes it clear in his On The Hill blog. “Even though the NDP has had more [...]

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PAPPY STEVE NEEDS TO FIRE HIMSELF

From David Akin. What we have found is that while regional development agencies can go off the reservation… There’s no place in Canadian politics for such racially charged language. Pappy Steve must do the right thing and ask Pappy Steve to resign over this.

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The Beauce's Bernier is "un grand benêt", Couillard says

Julie Couillard's book My Story will be published and in bookstores on Oct. 6, just before Canadians go to the polls on Oct. 14. Having written about the Couillard-Bernier affair several times for the Canwest chain of papers and then watched with interest how each paper played the whole affair, ...

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Well, that's that then, right?

Just in from the Tory press office: OTTAWA – Statement by Owen Lippert: "I was overzealous in copying segments of another world leader’s speech...

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Who had Sept 29th in the pool

for when the Conservatives would be challenged on their abortion policy? From reading David Akin's post it looks like Gilles Duceppe decided he would bring up the issue and his allies in the French press took his message to Stephen...

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What Halton’s saying…

On September 16th, I waited 45 minutes with Compass photographer Ann Kornuta in the St. Volodymyr Cultural Centre lobby for the arrival of Canada’s Prime Minister. Finally, Stephen Harper’s bus arrived. Before the PM made his entrance, his Conservative media team - armed with [...]

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Wide open possibilities

With the Cons having decided that their commitment to accountability ended when they took office and the Libs having never warmed up to the concept even in opposition, the campaign to date has seen far too little talk about how to make Canada's federal government more transparent. But David Akin points out at least one developing movement pushing for open government. And it shouldn't be much surprise...

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Income Splitting for disabled families by Cons,, also Income Splitting offered by Greens

Tories promise aid for disabled Canadians Posted: September 19, 2008, 10:29 AM by Jeremy Barker Canadian Election, Conservatives By David Akin and Meagan Fitzpatrick, Canwest News Service FARNHAM, Que. — Prime Minister Stephen Harper closed out three days of campaigning in Quebec on Friday morning by promising some relief for families who have a member with a disability. Speaking at an event in Farnham,...

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W OF THE NORTH:

Turning small-C immigrants into big-C Conservatives (David Akin, September 15, 2008, National Post) Ever since Stephen Harper assumed the leadership of the Conservative Party, it's been his mission to weaken what has traditionally been the power base for the Liberals in Canada's biggest cities, namely, immigrant communities. Early on, Harper tapped Jason Kenney to be in charge of outreach to Canada's...

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About This Dionbook(TM) Business . . .

Okay, if we’re all done with this “pooping puffin” business, I think it’s time we had a look at one of the notaleader.ca’s features. Specifically, Dionbook. Yes, it advertises itself as a “parody” site. And, to the authors’ credit, it fully explores the “social network” phenomenon, with plenty of pages about groups and people who’ve [...]

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Election 2008 begins

Just out from the PMO: David Akin Canwest News Service http://www.davidakin.com Cell: +1 613 355 5347 ----- Original Message ----- From: Gallery-Tribune Sent: Fri Sep 05 16:23:46 2008 Subject: OTTAWA - ONTARIO / SEPT. 07 / 07 SEPT. / 8:05 Media Advisory For immediate release Date: Friday, September 5, ...

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Canadian News Agencies Contradict Eachother on the Facts

A further to this post by TAC in which Loreweaver says that Harper has run the longest minority government in Canadian history. Said blogger would be forgiven for thinking this, since the MSM can’t seem to get their ducks in a row, or their facts right. In this Canwest article, David Akin calls it the longest in [...]