By Montreal Simon When I hear Vic Toews howling that he’s being victimized. WAAAAAAAH !!!! Because he can’t do his job after being “anonymously degraded” by Vikileaks. “I take strong issue with the idea that House resources would be used to attack secretly a member of the House,” Toews said, adding that the anonymous account […]
2011 election
More gravy on my Poutine, please
By Montreal Simon You know it takes a certain kind of mentality to pay cash for a disposable cellphone, like criminals do, and call the phony owner Pierre Poutine. A telephone number used to place automated calls directing voters to the wrong polling station in Guelph, Ont., in the last federal election was registered to […]
Harper’s implausible deniability
By Alison@Creekside In writing about the Cons’ dirty tricks robocall election fraud, John Ibbitson muses whether the Cons might just bear some “measure of responsibility” for creating a political climate in which their “rogue” campaign managers impersonate Election Canada officials on Election Day in order to send voters off to the wrong or non-existing polling […]
Election 2011: The Liberals elect the Conservatives
By Alison@Creekside Just a 2% increase in the popular vote took the Cons from 143 seats in 2008 to a 167 seat majority tonight, thanks to our fucked up first-past-the-post system and because of what happened in key ridings in Ontario where presumably the Lib voters moved over to the Cons: ie., in Toronto the […]
Doing the Orange Wave
By Montreal Simon As you know I have always tried to be as non-partisan as possible. All I want is ANYONE but Harper. But these days, like most people in my neighbourhood, I’m also hoping for an orange wave. I’m hoping for that because I honestly believe that what Jack Layton has managed to achieve […]
Surprise! You’re not voting!
By Alison@Creekside Updated below You really have to wonder what was going through the head of Michael Sona, communications director for Guelph Conservative candidate Marty Burke, when he barged into the special advance ballot arranged by Elections Canada for students at Guelph University, “making a huge scene stating that this polling station was illegal and tried to grab for […]
Debate: By not losing, Harper won
By Montreal Simon I wish I could say that the three opposition leaders smoked Great Ugly Leader last night, and that they were still hoovering him off the floor. But they didn’t, so I can’t. Because at this point delusion could kill us. They held their own, they landed some good blows, but their attacks […]
CBC’s Compass: Voting for Dummies
By Dave Brindle It’s so damn hard following the daily romper room in the House of Commons, you know? It’s so, like, boring to form an opinion that isn’t about head-shots in hockey. And then, as if that isn’t too much to expect, you’re prodded and goaded to a polling station — WTF! — to […]
