Newfoundlander

Weather wasn't an issue, that was the excuse the government had used but in the Fifth Estate documentary on the story they showed that weather reports from the time contradicted what DND was saying. The boy did not go through the ice, his snow mobile got stuck in the ice and he then walk for 19km. He may have still not survived by the time DND was contacted but it still should not take two days to get a helicopter. The reason the premier is making a fuss is because she has written to MacKay and his responses(which will soon be released publicly) we're not satisfactory and the government is continuing to make cuts to search and rescue in the province.

Numerous news articles on it. From what I understand the provincial helicopters were sent out when they heard but they were not contacted till the following day.

Dunderdale laid into the feds today, once again due to MacKay. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2012/05/22/nl-dunderdale-feds-burton-winters-522.html

There's now talk that President Obama could replace Joe Biden with Hillary Clinton, don't know what the chances are but it would be a smart move.

Luckily for Mulcair.

Forum Research has the Liberals at 47% compared to 37% for the Conservatives and 14% for the NDP. http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/22/liberal-challenger-ahead-in-toronto-riding-where-judge-ordered-byelection-poll/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Will Bob Rae clue in now that's he's not the Liberal Party's savior?

MacKay has supposedly said tonight that it will be over. Here's the article, it won't be extended. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/05/20/pol-mackay-afghan-mission-extension.html

I only put it here because that's where Toronto Danforth's was, but I agree.

The way you have it wrote is confusing.

I've said I voted NDP twice.

He did a lot better then people expected in the end.

Well Forum Research has a 10 point lead for Liberals, which could be totally wrong, but unless something major happens I doubt the Liberals would finish 9,000 votes behind the Conservatives, especially with all the recent screwups for the government.

By the sounds of it Dexter is probably more so a red Tory, which is what Jack Harris has also been described as.

There was some kind of poll that showed their platform was most popular.

I don't see any reason why if this judge did his job why another judge would dismiss it completely just because they were appointed by Harper. If the Conservatives appeal it's because they know the can stretch this out for probably a couple of years, which would cost the Liberals a lot of money.

Well I guess we'll soon see some reports on this by economists, and we'll also see how it effects Mulcair.

Well we don't even know if the Conservatives will appeal the ruling, I can't see why they wouldn't but the fact that it is the fault of Elections Canada and not their campaign's is one reason to believe they may not, plus I don't think a judge is that stupid to put their respect on the line because they don't want the Conservatives to face a by-election.

I'm aware of what Dutch Disease is and believe it's a real thing, I just don't think it's solely responsible for what happened to our manufacturing sector.

Seeing there was a thread for Toronto Danforth I figured the likely by-election in Etobicoke Centre deserved a thread too, especially considering how rare the cause of it is. According to tweets by Forum Research the Liberals have a 10 point lead in the riding, though they've not given the actual numbers. Last year the NDP were a distant third but like almost everywhere their percentage of the vote increased a fair bit. Will Mulcair and the NDP target this riding and put in a lot of resources to try and win the riding, or will they let the Liberals and Conservatives duke it out? Seeing it's unlikely the NDP could actually win what's a better scenario for them, a Liberal win or a Conservative win? The reason I'm brining the NDP up is because I think their campaign could be the deciding factor for who wins.

It's nothing to do with being partisan towards the NDP, who's candidate I voted for a year ago, it's that I don't buy the Dutch Disease scenario. Why didn't Jack Layton bring it up before? I never heard Dutch Disease mentioned as the reason why the manufacturing sector has failed till Mulcair brought it up a few weeks ago, why has the issue not been brought up till now?

So if Dutch Disease has led to the manufacturing industry collapsing because the dollar rose, why did the manufacturing industry get hit so hard in the US when their dollar has fallen?

He needs are votes more so he says that our offshore oil and mining, along with Saskatchewan and Alberta are responsible for the downturn in the economies of Ontario and Quebec?

Yes because Mulcair cares so much more.