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The Video: Lenny meets the Conservatives

09/19/2015 by the editor

“Lenny” is a collection of recorded messages, designed to fool telemarketers into thinking they’re talking to a real person. Here’s what happened when Lenny got a call from a Conservative campaigner representing Pierre Poilievre. As Alison@Creekside has reported: “The telemarketer calling here on behalf of the re-election campaign of Pierre Poilievre, champion of the Fair […]

Filed Under: The Video Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Andrew Scheer, Campaign Support, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, marketing, Pierre Poilievre

Robocalls: Elections fraud? What elections fraud?

04/28/2014 by the editor

By Alison@Creekside It would be unseemly for a sitting government under the cloud of elections fraud and voter suppression in 200 ridings across the country to ram through the Fair Elections Act mainly benefitting themselves, so today Elections Canada Commissioner Yves Côté obligingly threw in the towel on any further investigation into what Federal Court Judge […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: "Fair Elections Act", 2011 election, Canada, Elections Canada, Pierre Poilievre, robocall scandal, robocalls, Yves Côté

“Fair” Elections Act heads to chamber of sober pre-thought

04/04/2014 by the editor

The monster Fair Elections Act, with its “sharper teeth, longer reach, and freer hands,” is being fast-tracked to the Senate even before it passes in the House of Commons because Steve is in a huge rush to ram it — and its accompanying muzzling of Elections Canada’s investigation into Con election fraud in the last election […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: "Fair Elections Act", Bill C-23, Canada, Canadian Parliament, Canadian politics, Canadian Senate, Claude Carignan, Conservatives, Elections Canada, Peter MacKay, Pierre Poilievre, Stephen Harper

“Fair” Elections Act: Poilievre on the mat

03/29/2014 by the editor

By Montreal Simon The one good thing about the foul Fair Elections Act is the way it has transformed Pierre Poilievre into a parliamentary punching bag. Because it seems that every day somebody is taking a shot at him and his bill. And today it was the election expert Harry Neufeld’s turn to tell Poilievre […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: "Fair Elections Act", Bill C-23, Canada, Canadian Parliament, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Elections Canada, Erin O'Toole, Evan Solomon, First Nations, Pierre Poilievre, Stephen Harper

Fair Elections Act: Getting out the kid vote

03/14/2014 by the editor

By Alison@Creekside The Elections Canada video above, promoting the youth vote, is exactly what the Cons intend their Fair Elections Act to put a stop to, an anonymous gov official told The Hill Times, providing them with a link to the video. As you can see, it shows Xs representing ballot votes moving from a rock concert […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: "Fair Elections Act", Bill C-23, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Elections Canada, Marc Mayrand, Pierre Poilievre, voter suppression, youth

Fair Elections Act: Bleeding democracy

02/10/2014 by the editor

By Montreal Simon One of the most outrageous aspects of Stephen Harper’s new voter suppression scheme, a.k.a The Fair Elections Act, is how many Canadians it would disenfranchise. Canada’s chief electoral officer says eliminating a registered voter’s ability to vouch for another could impact more than 100,000 people, most of them aboriginals who live on […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: "Fair Elections Act", Canada, Canadian politics, Chief Electoral Officer, Conservatives, law, Marc Mayrand, Pierre Poilievre, Stephen Harper, Supreme Court

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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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