The Harper Express pulled into Montreal yesterday to address a crowd of about 500 people in a downtown hotel. Harper underlined one of the key points of conservatism which is the even and fair distribution of power to…
The new Conservative website went live today. It has a clean and professional look and has a tabbed feature which allows rapid access to the most important information on the website: headlines, issues, “blog”, and…
Stephen Harper kicked off his campaign today by visiting Brockville Ontario at the centre of a riding which went Liberal in 2000 by 58 votes (the pain of that defeat was compounded conservative vote splitting). Indeed…
Paul Martin called the election. The writ was dropped at about 1:30pm EST today in Ottawa as the Paul Martin asked Governor General Adrienne Clarkson to dissolve the 37th Parliament and to set an election for June 28th…
As Paul Martin dyspeptically delays and attempts to manipulate the election date to his own advantage, the latest pre-writ poll indicates that the Grits are headed into a minority government. We’ve heard of this news…
The first shots of the web campaign were fired today and it was quid pro quo as both the Liberals and the Conservatives seemed to have played off of each other with perfect timing. The Liberal Party of Canada released…
Today is likely the last day of the 37th Parliament and Paul Martin is expected to call an election during the Victoria Day weekend for a June 28th election. Some MPs will not be running for re-election and among them…
Another example of the Liberal push for a peripheral route to persuade voters is the recruitment of Bono, the lead singer of U2. Bono is to appear (cue fanfare) at the federal government’s AIDS spending announcement to…
Daniel Girard of the Toronto Star reports today that the executive of the Liberal riding association of Burnaby-Douglas has resigned over the strong-arm tactics of Mr. Martin’s appointing of his own candidate in that…
In 1986, Richard Petty and John Cacioppo developed a model which outlined two routes by which a person (or an audience) is persuaded by a speaker to believe a certain message. The two formed the dual-process model of…
