Canadian Politics
Commissioner of Canada Elections is flooded with complaints
The Commissioner of Canada Elections has released statistics about complaints received during the 45th general election, which saw Mark Carney’s Liberal party…
Elections Canada
41 posts on Elections Canada from Stephen Taylor's archive of Canadian political commentary.
Canadian Politics
Mapped Results of the 2021 Canadian Federal Election
Elections Canada has just released the official results of 2021 Canadian federal election. The official voting results present the results of the election in…
Canadian Politics
We need exit polling for Canadian elections
On October 21st, Justin Trudeau was reduced to minority government status with stronger Conservative opposition forming dominant regional representation in the…
Election Financing
Michael Sona charged by Elections Canada in Robocall case
He has been charged under Section 491.3(d) of the Canada Elections Act, 491. (3) Every person is guilty of an offence who (a) being a deputy returning officer,…
Elections
Why did the media play naive?
From an earlier post seven days ago, A lot of ink and broadcast bandwidth has been dedicated to 31,000 “complaints” filed with Elections Canada regarding the…
News making
Who is Pierre Poutine?
John Ivison published an interesting piece in the National Post last week that breezed by what would have been technobabble to some, Mr. Meier set out to…
Elections
Robocall protest falls flat
First, voter suppression is a serious thing, and as an extension, false allegations of voter suppression are serious too. Elections Canada should investigate…
Columns
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…
Michael Ignatieff
Ed Clark, CEO of TD Bank, is Ignatieff’s economic czar?
Bill Curry and Tara Perkins have the byline on a Globe story today that reports on the politics that are going back and forth between Ignatieff and the…