Why is it controversial? The ad was published in the North Bay Nugget on September 23rd, 2008 (during the writ period) and it doesn’t appear to contain the words “approved by the official agent for Anthony Rota”. If my eyes do not deceive me, this…
A mea culpa from CBC News publisher John Cruikshank concerning this column by Heather Mallick published on the CBC website. In the column, Mallick calls American voters “white trash”, Republican men “sexual inadequates” and Sarah Palin a “hillbilly”…
As we enter the third week of the federal election campaign, one cannot help but be struck by how early poll numbers suggesting a Conservative majority government have held. Nanos/CPAC numbers were fairly consistent over the past three days…
Much is being written and said about former Liberal candidate Lesley Hughes and her bizarre conspiracy theories that are more appropriately scrawled on the front of newspaper boxes rather than enunciated by a mainstream contender for Parliament. As…
I just received this leak of raw versions of six new videos against Dion’s Liberals. They stem from the leak of audio from a secret conference call that Liberals participated in on September 22nd of this year while they discussed strategy.
Today, twitter released its own version of a website I developed in the summer and launched about a month ago. Twitter Election 2008, like its predecessor called govtweets.com that I coded, aggregates twitter mentions of John McCain, Barack Obama,…
Has anyone seen this latest NDP attack ad? I think it’s over-the-top. Take a look. Let’s help welcome Jack back to the real world. UPDATE: For those that don’t get the reference, this video is a parody I made of this original NDP ad. The scenes are…
I just received this email on my Blogging_Tories twitter account. Somebody in the Liberal war-room has been spending their afternoon following everyone and their brother on twitter. At the time of this writing, liberaltour on twitter is following…
A couple of days ago, I attended the all-candidates debate at the Nepean Sportsplex where incumbent John Baird faced former Liberal minister David Pratt, Marlene Rivier from the NDP and Green party candidate Frances Coates. Despite their politics, I…
About a year ago, I wrote of Liberal MP Garth Turner collecting money in a unconventional way. Garth Turner was asking contributers via his website to donate to “Garth Turner Campaign, in trust”. We learned then that this may run afoul of the…
