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Lessons from Naheed
Generally speaking, the rest of Canada treats Alberta politics as nothing more than a punch line: “Calgary: If you don’t like the weather, wait 40 minutes. If you don’t like the government, wait 40 years“. “The Alberta government is considering adding ‘Liberals’ to the endangered species list“. That sort of stuff. Because of that, no […]
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Calgary Votes
Today, Calgarians cast their ballots for mayor. Well, some Calgarians will. The City has a well deserved reputation for being one of the most apathetic when it comes to democracy – one-third of Calgarians voted in 2007, one-fifth in 2004. This time around, there are no execuses to stay home. Calgarians have close to a […]
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Battle Lines
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What’s the matter with the Calgary Sun?
The Sun endorses a Harvard elitist for Mayor of Calgary: The Sun has never shied away from taking a bold stand when we believe it will benefit Calgarians. We believe Naheed Nenshi should be Calgary’s next mayor. Luckily, they explain their decision: He’s a prof at Mount Royal University, but doesn’t engage in the egghead […]
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Stampede to the Polls: The Candidates Speak
UPDATE – Joe Connelly and Naheed Nenshi have been added at the bottom Even though I only had time to profile four of the candidates running for mayor in Calgary (McIver, Higgins, Nenshi, and the since withdrawn Kent Hehr), I don’t want to completely overlook the other candidates. Some of these men and women have […]
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Just 22 short months after becoming leader, it’s time to meet Michael
This is actually a very well done video, continuing what has been a very strong 3-4 month stretch for Ignatieff and the Liberals.
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Seat Projections
Below are my updated seat projections, I first posted in July. For the long methodology explanation, click here. To summarize it, the model projects the probability of each party winning every seat in the country, taking the following into account: -Publicly released polling data-2004, 2006, and 2008 election results-Riding demographics-The historical variance in riding results, […]
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News & Notes
1. Julian Fantino will be the Tory candidate in the upcoming Vaughan by election. As for when that will occur, Pundits Guide speculates that the 5 upcoming by elections will be called for a December 13th vote. So how will the Vaughan by election go? Well, in my updated Seat Projections (to be posted tomorrow […]