Yesterday, Green Party leader Elizabeth May learned the news that she will not be featured in the leader’s debate broadcast on the Canadian television networks. The arrangement by May of former Liberal MP Blair Wilson to form a Green caucus of one…
The other week, I wrote about the potential appointment process of a candidate in Ottawa West Nepean as Bob Chiarelli was eyeing the riding to the dismay of former defense minister David Pratt. Today I received a tip from a couple of sources that…
Yesterday, the election campaign began and Liberal leader Stephane Dion’s campaign launch was held in Ottawa at the Billings Estate, a city of Ottawa operated property in the middle of Ottawa. Organizers were expecting about 1000 people (about 100…
According to Liberal sources close to Stephane Dion, the Liberal leader plans to visit Walkerton, ON the site of the E.Coli outbreak that killed a number of people during the time Mike Harris was the PC Premier of Ontario. Dion will try to link the…
A correspondent close to the Dion campaign writes saying that Dion’s campaign plane won’t be ready until Wednesday or later this week. The Conservatives and the NDP started this campaign by hitting the ground running, or in this case, hitting the…
I’ve heard of Liberals signing up dead people to round out member numbers for leadership contests. Legend even has it that JFK’s campaign used lists of dead voters to steal thousands of votes in Chicago to beat Nixon. While the deceased can be used…
Today, Prime Minister Stephen Harper asked the Governor General for the dissolution of Canada’s 39th Parliament and Her Excellency will ask for the return of writs in 37 days. All five major party leaders made television appearences to either give…
At tomorrow’s campaign launch for Stephane Dion, somebody should ask the Liberal leader if his campaign plans to offset the carbon used by his buses, and plane and whether or not these offsets will fall under their election spending cap. Also, will…
Here is the New Democrats latest offering pre-writ. It goes right after Stephen Harper and features a military drum beat reminiscent of the 2006 Liberal ads which warned of “soldiers with guns, in our streets”. If the NDP is to have success in this…