Earlier today the Liberals released a barrage of attack ads aimed directly at Stephen Harper. One ad must not have passed through their focus group however, because the Liberals frantically pulled it from their website before it got widespread…
Looks like Brookes Merritt picked up on the story I posted on the other day concerning Anne McLellan’s election expenses. Correction: he picked up on Anne’s side of the story and ignores valid questions and misattributes a mistake by Elections…
Last night in Montreal, the four party leaders debated the issues and even made up a few of their own. Here, I summarize moments that caused befuddlement. First of all, the absolute “bombshell” of the debate was Paul Martin’s desperate Hail Mary…
There are some interesting discrepancies within Liberal MP Anne McLellan’s 2004 election expense report (source: Elections Canada) First, McLellan claimed $14,861.50 in sign advertising (purchased from her EDA). Curiously, McLellan claims $16,467.83…
Click to enlarge Is it that, a) The billboard is in violation of section 320 of the Canada Elections Act: A candidate or registered party, or a person acting on their behalf, who causes election advertising to be conducted shall mention in or on the…
Claude Dauphin was a Quebec Liberal MNA for the riding of Marquette in 1981 and was re-elected in 1985 and 1989. He served as an MNA until 1994. In 1995 he was the president of Option Canada. He was the chief Quebec advisor to Paul Martin when the…
Continuing his trend to encroach upon provincial jurisdiction, Paul Martin will announce later on today that the Liberals are planning to unload over $7 billion on education initiatives. CTV has the report: Thousands of low-income students would get…
I’d like to believe that Ralph Goodale is a honest politician and that he has served 32 years in public life with integrity, I really would. However, let’s look at Goodale’s previous connections to scandal in Ottawa now that he is starring in the…
What happens when you place blogging and multimedia tools in the hands of the electorate? You get the Liberal Attack Ad Remix. Click here for the video (.WMV) This was passed onto me via MSN messenger. Let’s make this the viral video of the…
Norman Spector was kind enough to email me this story (buried within another story) about the purposefully precipitated diplomatic row between the US and Canada (I provided some evidence of the orchestration of the spat earlier). In the Toronto Star…