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Monday Morning Links
1) Dan Cook on the varying delegate counts floating around. 2) Marjory Lebreton on why the concept of facebook is “dangerous”. 3) Paul Martin is writing his memoirs, titled “Come Hell or High Water“. Feel free to post your alternative titles in the comments section! 4) With no election likely this spring, the media focus […]
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Things I Don’t Care About, An Ongoing Post Series
Maxime Bernier’s ex-girlfriends.
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Headline of the Week
Err…no comment. h/t LC
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Stories which will not be turned into “feel good” Tim Hortons commercials
Tim Hortons Employee Fired for Giving Away Free Timbit One day story Tim Hortons Employee Fired for Giving Free Timbit to a Baby PR ProblemSingle Mother of Four Fired for Giving Free Timbit to a Baby PR Disaster
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No brussel sprouts for dessert if you don’t finish your dinner!
OSLO — Canada will be probed on suspicion of violating rules for registering greenhouse gases that are the mainstay of a UN-led fight against global warming, official documents show. Ottawa could be suspended from rights to trade carbon dioxide if found to be in breach of the rules by the enforcement branch of the UN’s […]
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Fun With Numbers
…well, not so much “fun” if you’re a Clinton supporter. CNN’s Delegate Calculator
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Royal Pain
Despite all their talk about protecting the French language, the separatist movement has always taken a “je m’en fout” attitude towards francophones living outside of Quebec. So it shouldn’t be a big surprise that Gilles Duceppe went absolutely insane today over rather benign comments from the GG: In an interview published by the French newspaper […]
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Unite the Left
I suppose it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the people who spent all election whispering “no plan” have put forward a plan of their own to (sort of) unite the left in Alberta. Here’s what the Alberta Federation of Labour is proposing: 1) The Liberals, NDP and Greens would “divvy up” all Alberta ridings and agree […]
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If You’ve Got $120 And 120 Hours To Spare…
Since I’ve been bitching about the Liberal Party’s fundraising problems for ever and ever, it’s only fair to help them publicize this latest initiative. Meet “The Victory Fund” – a stab at trying to get those small time donors the CPC have so effectively recruited with their “give us 20$ because the CBC is eeeevil” […]
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Taking Guelph by Storm?
It wouldn’t surprise me if Liberals are starting to view by-elections like a trip to the dentist – every six months you get a bit of discomfort…with the possibility of a lot of discomfort if they find a cavity. And there’s a toothache right now, with another quartet of by elections looming. Asuming, of course, […]