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Robocalls: You’re being denied justice

05/17/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By John Klein (aka Saskboy): We’ve had a few days of no new news reported in the robocalls criminal investigation. The story yesterday on the CBC website, while factual, does make one claim that is disputable. With the public paper trail cold for almost two months, there’s still little that’s certain in the Elections Canada […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2011 election, Canada, Elections Canada, robocall scandal

Robocalls: Who was hiding behind the proxy server?

05/11/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside Despite Wednesday’s somewhat dampening headline, Pierre Poutine robocalls trail goes cold in Saskatchewan, the main story here is not that Elections Canada’s Al Mathews was unable to secure phone records from a proxy server company in Saskatchewan a whole freakin year after the fraudulent election calls were made. No, the main story is: Why did […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2011 election, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Elections Canada, robocall scandal, Saskatchewan

Robocalls: The seven deadly ridings

04/26/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Allison@Creekside As a follow up to my earlier chart showing Steve’s Margin of Victory in ridings with the closest vote margins, I’ve adjusted it to include only the seven being contested in court for voter fraud and added two columns of polling data from an EKOS research paper based on a recent phone survey […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2011 election, British Columbia, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Council of Canadians, Elections Canada, Green Party, Liberals, Manitoba, NDP, Ontario, robocall scandal, Saskatchewan, Stephen Harper, Yukon

Robocalls and Republicons

03/14/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside The Cons’ somewhat belated talking points about their use of the US voter contact firm Front Porch Strategies in the last election have been all about only using them for townhalls : U.S. phone firm was just for town halls, say MPs  “Jim Ross [Front Porch’s Canadian liaison and Con MP Rick Dykstra’s […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2011 election, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Dean Del Mastro, Elections Canada, Ontario, Rick Dykstra, robocall scandal, U.S., U.S. politics

Ohi – uh-oh

03/07/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside Poor old Mr. Creosote. Steve sent his parliamentary secretary, Dean Del Maestro, out into the House two days in a row last week to claim the Libs spent “millions of dollars” in the last election hiring a foreign voter telemarketing company with offices in North Dakota — which turned out not to be […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2011 election, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Elections Canada, Liberals, robocall scandal, Stephen Harper

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By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

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From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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