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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | yesterday
... their polling has to show that. With less than 20 days to go, the race is all but decided between Tom King for the NDP and the Liberals who first won the seat back in the days of Consumers Distributing.So, aside from having Gloria Kovach stage a dramatic rescue of school children from a burning building, while arresting the arsonist, while also paying to personally off-set the carbon emissions...
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Canadian Christian Conservative (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Organized labour groups in Guelph have announced that they'll be, for the most part, supporting the NDP's Tom King. That gives Dion's Liberal candidate, Frank Valeriote, what may be a fatal body blow in his efforts to keep the Guelph riding from slipping out of their grasp. NDP's King gets union bump August 1, 2008 Jessica Smith GUELPH NDP candidate Tom King is campaigning for...
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Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
King's House has refused to say whether it has formally apologised to Senator Tom Tavares-Finson for incorrectly informing him that it had no record of a pardon being granted to Marcus Mosiah Garvey. By way of a letter, King's House had told the senator that no such request...
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Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
NDP candidate and noted author and broadcaster Tom King continues to place the spotlight on copyright in the forthcoming Guelph by-election with another press release and an interview with ITWorld Canada.
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
p2pnet news view Politics | P2P:- NDP candidate for Guelph Tom King is slated for a trip to Toronto on July 24. There, he’ll meet artists, activists and academics working to halt Bill C-61, the Stephen Harper government’s planned US-style copyright legislation. “This copyright legislation is essentially handing over years of established Canadian copyright legislation to the [...]
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e-Clippings (Learning As Art) (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tom King posted to something to Twitter that caught my eye about a piece that Tom Kulhmann of Articluate wrote. Thx for the pointer Tom (Tom King that is). Geez, I can't even go with "Tom K" to differentiate here...OK...
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Snowflakes in Hell (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Tom King talks about one member of the United States National Shooting Team being arrested after attemping to transport a firearm in checked baggage as allowed by federal regulations. Bloomberg apparently wants to host the Olympics at some point in the future. Hopefully it New York does host, they won’t arrest all the shooting team [...]
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Canadian Christian Conservative (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
LOL... this could perhaps be the BEST description of the Liberals "Green Shift" carbon tax that I've ever heard!!! From Guelph NDP candidate Tom King, who's known for his colourful stories and analogy's...[on the "Green Shift"] "So it's sort of like passing money from your left pocket to your right pocket, but I know enough about Ottawa and Ottawa's digestive track to know that if you pass money...
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New Democratic Party of Canada (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
GUELPH – NDP Leader Jack Layton and Guelph’s Tom King demanded the federal government implement legislation to protect Canadian consumers from paying more for cell phone text messages. “Cell phone companies want to charge consumers 15 cents for each text message they receive, including spam,” said M. Layton. “Cell phone companies are gouging consumers, and our government stands back and watches”...
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democraticSPACE (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
... Conservative candidate Gloria Kovach could receive 9,100 to 10,500 votes (26-30%), NDP candidate Tom King and Green candidate Mike Nagy could receive in the 6,650 to 8,050 vote range (19-23%). Here’s how we arrive at these estimates (and they are just that — estimates). Past Results First, let’s recap what transpired in the January 2006 general election: Party Candidate Votes % Riding %...
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
There is a good reason why Tom King is one of this country's most celebrated story-tellers. He and Jack Layton sat down with the Guelph Mercury editorial board and treated them to an example by characterizing the relatonship voters have with the Tories and Liberals:King likened the relationship Canadians have with the two main political parties to a woman who had two boyfriends. Like...
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Snowflakes in Hell (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Tom King, President of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, and NRA Board Member, asks about whether the ACLU has been in regards to a man who was disarmed by the police for communicating with Representative McCarthy about his displeasure at her support for gun control. The comments have a few people on [...]
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David Akin's On the Hill (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Here's the blurb from the Liberal campaign: Mr. Valeriote and Mr. Brison took specific aim at Conservative Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, who earlier this year told a business audience that Ontario is “the last place” to invest.... He's up against NDP candidate Tom King -- he of CBC's Dead Dog Café fame -- as well as city councillor and Conservative candidate Gloria Kovach and the Green Party's...
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
The front page headline in yesterday's local paper is "Jack Layton promising transit cash". Interesting, considering he has no power to do so. It comes from an editorial board interview that the paper held on Tuesday with Jack Layton and Tom King (who the paper all but endorsed today), once a respected author, now Guelph's NDP candidate for the on-going by-election. The NDP's plan is simple:...
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Snowflakes in Hell (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
War on Guns has a very detailed post up on what happened to one of Carolyn McCarthy’s constituents who had his guns seized after exercising his first amendment rights to petition the Congresswoman for a redress of grievances. We covered this a bit here, and pointed out last week that this whole incident has Tom King, [...]
