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From a recent public forum at the University of British Columbia:
"Representing Vancouver Centre was NDP candidate (and UBC professor)
Michael Byers, along with Green Party candidate Adrienne Carr.
Meanwhile, representing Vancouver Quadra was Joyce Murray of the
Liberal Party and [UBC] Sauder law professor Deborah Meredith of the
Conservatives…
Preston Manning has provided two highly…original reasons to not vote for Stephane Dion.
Reason Number 1: "Whereas Mr. Harper grew up in an accountant’s household, Mr. Dion grew up in an academic’s household."
[Read more…] about Preston Manning Weighs in… Why NOT to Vote for Dion
…now an issue – the economy – is battering the Conservative campaign,
and it’s completely a result of Harper’s handling of the issue.
One of the perennial criticisms of Canada’s two big brokerage parties (oftentimes levelled by NDP leaders) is that they’re really tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum parties: They stand for essentially the same things and govern accordingly. The 1993 federal election was supposed to have changed all that, but alot of the speculation about Harper trying to construct a moderate, centrist party raised the spectre of a return to the days of Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum.
[Read more…] about The Conservatives and Liberals as Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum?
Melanee and lots of other commentators have characterized Harper’s recent defence of arts subsidies as an "amateur mistake." I’m not so sure.
The latest Tory candidate to flame out over inflammatory blog postings is Ryan Warawa in Vancouver East. No word yet on whether the party will force him to "voluntarily resign" but the events of the last week-and-a-half suggest that Warawa is on the way out.