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Why is the CBC is above the law?
The setup, from Kris Sims: OTTAWA – The CBC isn’t getting taken to the woodshed for airing vote results to western Canada on election night. In a letter to a…
Tag: Elections Act
10 posts tagged "Elections Act".
Election Financing
Michael Ignatieff taking illegal donations?
(The Liberal Party says the National Post got it wrong and they respond in the update) That’s the conclusion one may come to if one reads Don Martin’s latest…
Elections
Is s.329 of the Elections Act quixotic?
Section 329 of the Elections Act reads, “No person shall transmit the result or purported result of the vote in an electoral district to the public in another…
Election Financing
Anthony Rota’s controversial ad
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…
Election Financing
Is Andrew Telegdi violating the Elections Act?
Take a look at the website of Liberal candidate Andrew Telegdi as it appeared last night: So, what’s the matter with Telegdi’s website? Aaron Wudrick, the…
Election Financing
Liberal fundraising, alive and well!
Just landed in my inbox, this alleged Liberal fundraising flyer: According to the flyer, items to be auctioned off to raise money for eight Ottawa-area federal…
Conservative Party of Canada
Wajid Khan out of caucus
Following this story in the Globe and Mail which broke a few hours ago, this press release just landed in my email inbox: OTTAWA – Today, Member of Parliament…
Election Financing
What is Garth Turner doing?
As Halton MP Garth Turner stands in the House of Commons and acts offended by the so-called “In and Out” scandal with which the Liberals are trying to tar the…
Election Financing
Manufactured scandal
There is a faux controversy brewing in the media and among Liberal bloggers about Conservative ads that ran in the last election. As all parties do during…