CuriosityCat: Mr. Trudeau: Coalitions are what you make them
Let’s talk coalition … The recent poll showing that most Liberal and NDP supporters would rather have a new government than have a Harper one after the 2015 election, even if this means some form of a...
View ArticleCuriosityCat: Michael Den Tandt is wrong: Mulcair knows what a mess of...
Den Tandt: Muclair cannot count So, what will our next federal government look like? Today is the last day of the year 2014, and most commentators have hidden their heads in the sand rather than...
View ArticleBabel-on-the-Bay: A time and place for political deals
Election day in Ontario in 1985. On the way into a candidate’s campaign headquarters, Liberal Leader David Peterson’s executive assistant was leaving and we stopped to chat. There was no pussy-footing...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Opposed to Coalition?
Yesterday’s news: .@davidcommon Odd report by @ElliottLouise about @JustinTrudeau & @ThomasMulcair #coalition didn't mention @ElizabethMay & @CanadianGreens. — Saskboy K. (@saskboy) April 15,...
View ArticlePop The Stack: On the significance of sound and fury.
Oh journalists, you love a strong response to an unanswerable question don’t you? The media are really into nailing down what each party leader thinks about coalitions after the next election at the...
View ArticleCuriosityCat: UK 2015 election: Down to the wire
Talk about a nail biter! And welcome to the new land of coalition / cooperative governments ….
View ArticleCuriosityCat: UK Election: Labour leader’s nonsense about no cooperation with...
Sturgeon’s view of Miliband’s anti-cooperation nonsense Next week Britons go to the polls, and Labour leader Miliband has once more put his foot in his mouth with a statement that he is not interested...
View ArticleCuriosityCat: Election 2015: Why Canadians will have a new government
Yes, Prime Minister … Yesterday’s EKOS poll results released by Frank Graves have plenty of food for thought. The poll results are worth detailed study by anyone trying to get a fix on what will...
View ArticleCuriosityCat: Election 2015 Seniors will determine who is Prime Minister of...
Convergence Here’s one interesting finding from the June 16 Forum poll: The NDP vote is characteristic of the youngest (43%), the least wealthy (39%) and the wealthiest (37%), in BC (30%) and among...
View ArticleCuriosityCat: Barry Kay of Laurier Institute: Say welcome to Prime Minister...
Global News graphic of the horse race James Armstrong of Global News has a fascinating article about the findings of the Barry Kay team of the Laurier Institute, with three really illuminating...
View ArticleCuriosityCat: Election: EKOS poll – Seniors will return Harper to power as...
A key statistic is not who favours what party before election day, but how many voters actually cast a vote on that day. Seniors vote. Younger voters don’t vote in the same proportions. The latest...
View ArticleCuriosityCat: Globe & Mail: 95% Chance Harper Government will be replaced in...
The mighty Globe & Mail has spoken, on this, the first day of our election campaign. The writ has been dropped, and the G&M has carried the golden election forecast down from the mountain top,...
View ArticleCuriosityCat: Forum poll: Harper in free fall and Mulcair headed for strong...
Forum tale of the seats Tom Mulcair is headed towards becoming prime minister of a government with a hefty chunk of seats in Parliament, just shy of a majority, according to the latest Forum poll: A...
View ArticleCuriosityCat: Election 2015: Is the Liberal Party ready for October 20th?
Who will be our next PM? Probably Harper We vote on October 19. It will be a cliffhanger, with final results only out early the next day. A minority government is possible, as the Poll Tracker shows...
View ArticleCuriosityCat: Election October 19: The REAL ballot box question of Canadians
The Two Ballot Box Questions Much as the CPC, NDP and LPC try to frame the ballot box question for the October 19 election, voters have their own views of what the question is. This article from...
View ArticleCuriosityCat: Both Trudeau and Mulcair should keep the other man on a short...
The Mulcair or Trudeau Short Leash Polls show the Conservatives slipping, and the NDP and LPC in a dead heat for the role of replacement government, but neither of those two parties expected to gain a...
View ArticleCuriosityCat: Coalition or no coalition? What will happen on October 20
Qualified support? OK Polls show the Conservatives slipping, and the NDP and LPC in a dead heat for the role of replacement government, but neither of those two parties expected to gain a majority of...
View ArticleCuriosityCat: CBC Power & Politics’ Barton goofs on Trudeau statement
It really is time for the powers that be in the CBC to put some smart folks in a room and tell them to come up with an intelligent set of facts on how our constitution works, and then to train...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: NDP Brings Greens Most Pinecones
Title in honour of a Beaverton joke. Andrew Weaver brings up the issue of Kinder Morgan as something he couldn't overlook when negotiating. — Chandler Grieve (@CTVNewsChandler) May 29, 2017 BREAKING:...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: This is why we can’t have even minimally acceptable...
Here we go again. And somehow, the latest round of hysteria includes the Cons learning nothing from the failure of their attacks on coalitions or other forms of inter-party cooperation in the past,...
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