Posts Tagged: Canadian Politics 2008
Canada Votes Day 15: Another "-ism" Bites The Dust
Posted by on Sunday, September 21, 2008 in - leave a comment
Interesting how many candidates are falling by the wayside this election, how many parties are not tolerating unacceptable statements. As Robert notes, now we have Toronto Conservative candidate Chris Reid let go for his opinions arising after the terrible terrible events that led to the death of …
Canada Votes Day 14: What's An "-ism" In This Campaign?
Posted by on Saturday, September 20, 2008 in - 7 comments
Ben started it. He made reference to "conservatism" - a concept that, as far as I am concerned, does not exits. It's a grouping of different, divergent and sometimes contradictory ideas. The odder idea is "liberalism" which is a word referencing non-being used by people who espouse "conservatism" …
Canada Votes Day 13: Friday Bullets For A Dull Week
Posted by on Friday, September 19, 2008 in - 15 comments
Now? I hope the vote plays out like this: • CPC - 124Grits - 103Bloq - 51NDP - 29Other - 1 • You get my point, right? Dullsville. Could there be a duller election? How could that be? Hmmm...maybe all parties could declare we are getting out of Afghanistan, no change to health care, announce …
Canada Votes Day 12: A Minister Jokes
Posted by on Thursday, September 18, 2008 in - 11 comments
This poses an important question: given we are all incredible stupid at exactly the wrong moments, should we hold public figures more accountable for being dopes? Consider the humour employed by Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz leveraging the listeria crisis, a crisis which has occurred under his …
Canada Votes Day 11: Fighting With One Arm Tied
Posted by on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 in - 7 comments
It has officially begun. The long knives are out. Warren Kinsella was on CBC Radio's Ontario Morning explaining what Hans and Sean, both Liberal card carriers¹ if you don't have a program, were going on about yesterday. Dion's people are Martin's people and they don't want Chretien's people back …
Canada Votes Day 10: Jack Opens The Monetary Sluicegates
Posted by on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 in - 11 comments
One billion! Jack is going to spend one billllllion dollars. And for what? Med students! • Speaking at Dalhousie University's medical school, Mr. Layton said an NDP government would spend an average of $200-million a year to increase training spaces and help provinces expand their medical …
Canada Votes Day 9: Is It Really Just All About Dion?
Posted by on Monday, September 15, 2008 in - 36 comments
Like Quasimodo screaming about the bells, it's all about the polls this morning and how they suggest results vary between a slim conservative majority and another minority. But what they also talk about is how imprecise polling is as a science...and, ok, that no one is warming to Dion. • What …
Canada Votes Day 8: Do We Need To Reinvent History?
Posted by on Sunday, September 14, 2008 in - 2 comments
Stephen Harper has an eye for the use of history. It's a means to illustrate a desired image. But is he concerned enough about actual history? He spoke yesterday about creating the notion that conservatism is something that has an exclusive hold on certain elements of the Canadian identity - yet …
Canada Votes Day 7: Tories Know How Computers Work
Posted by on Saturday, September 13, 2008 in - 11 comments
Is it that they know how they work or what they can do for you? The usually astute and not really diatribal Robert over at A Dime A Dozen Political Blog posted about the use of Google ads by the NDP as if the NDP learned who you were through the process. Fear of Google ads is pretty 2002 or so …
Canada Votes Day 6: Friday Bullet Points For Week One
Posted by on Friday, September 12, 2008 in - 5 comments
There is a certain pattern to elections. The days come and go and within only a few days some patterns seem to appear. Generalities. Themes. Motifs, even. So far in this one the main theme I see is that the Liberals have not collapsed through their own sheer incompetency. I think we all had …
