Election Financing
Significance of this week’s in-and-out decision
On Monday, the federal court decided in favour of the Conservatives against Elections Canada when the regulator’s chief electoral officer (CEO) Marc Mayrand…
Elections Canada
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Elections
The Seinfeldian media
The latest installment of the “will there or won’t there be an election?” drama of As the Hill Turns, the Canadian Press reports that Quebec Liberal candidates…
Digital Politics
Google Earth demo – 2008 General Election poll maps and results
For the past week or so, when I’ve had a spare moment in the office, I’ve been working on a mapping project involving Elections Canada data and the Google…
Election Financing
Warren Kinsella misfires
Our friend Warren Kinsella of the red team, calls me out as a hypocrite for blogging about Michael Ignatieff’s $0 record of donation to the Liberal Party of…
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
Liberals rip down Conservative signs with a blessing from Elections Canada
This campaign has seen a lot of things, from MPs using office budgets to advertise during the writ to past blogs of present candidates coming back to haunt…
Elections
Elections Canada takes up arms, risks losing the war for us all
I admit, I have an abnormal obsession with politics, and as I’ve reassured some of my concerned friends during these past weeks: this is the call to battle for…
Election Financing
That carbonzero logo raises some questions
Here’s a picture of Liberal leader Stephane Dion’s plane: Allow me to draw your attention to the “carbonzero” logo that is displayed on the fuselage. What is…