If we had proportional representation, then all votes would matter in this federal election. Instead, with our first-past-the-post system, there is a chance that Canadians will get the "majority" Stephen Harper has been threatening. That is, a disproportionate number of…

- From Challenging the Commonplace on Sep 17, 17:58 EDT)

The whole Palin media circus in the US has totally disgusted me to the point that I would rather not talk about it, nor post about it.Today, however, a good friend and former journalist (as opposed to what passes for same these days) sent me a couple of illustrations of the person I like to…

- From The Galloping Beaver on Sep 17, 17:57 EDT)

Every 50 feet or so along a stretch of Terry Fox Drive in Kanata this afternoon there was a Re-elect Gordon O'Connor sign posted beside the roadway. In among the sea of blue signs were the torn out signs of the NDP and Liberal candidates (There may have been some Greens in there too, but I…

- From The View From The Lake on Sep 17, 17:42 EDT)

We don’t live in a class-based society, oh no siree. It’s all hunky dory. It’s not like anyone in the middle class would look down their nose at a neighbour who likes to save 50¢ for doing nothing more complicated than handing over a piece of paper worth that much to a…

- From Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy on Sep 17, 17:23 EDT)

Goose Bay might soon be home to an unspecified number of CF-18 Hornets, according to David Pugliese. Lots of anger there as you can see, although I don’t know how shocked they could be since I’ve reporting since April 2007 that the recommendation from CANSOFCOM is that JTF2…

- From The Robert Bond Papers on Sep 17, 17:17 EDT)

Well, someone tell Lucifer to turn on the furnace. It’s bound to get a little cold down there, now that we have the first “official” single from Axl Rose/GnR’s long-delayed opus, Chinese Democracy. The angle? Axl has decided to release it through Rock Band 2. Have a…

- From Nunc Scio on Sep 17, 17:16 EDT)

First Denise Donlon. Second, Mansbridge is sidelined in favour of J.D Roberts. What's that? Never heard of J.D. Roberts? That's because he went south of the border, lost the mullet and had a total makeover. Now they call him John Roberts. And since Mercer and Murphy are getting kinda…

- From The Robert Bond Papers on Sep 17, 17:00 EDT)

Apparently the Conservative Party candidate for Vancouver-Kingsway doesn't have much to say about himself or his party: Very nice site design if one is into ultra-minimalism.

- From mike watkins dot ca on Sep 17, 16:54 EDT)

From Kevin Colton, Campaign Manager for Natalie Odd:"The Calgary Centre campaign is happy to announce that our downtown store-front office is open and ready for business! We are having an office opening party this Friday night, Sept. 19 @ 7:00 pm. We are willing and able to share the office…

- From The Enlightened Savage on Sep 17, 16:32 EDT)

A faithful pitcher plant called one of the radio call in shows today continuing the My ABC claim.  That is, the whole Danny Williams ABC Family Feud is not partisan and not all about Danny Williams.  It's a movement for the people by the people. There you have it. But if that's…

- From The Robert Bond Papers on Sep 17, 16:32 EDT)

I think Stephen Taylor has a strong point regarding the abuse of parliamentary privilege by certain staffers supporting a certain Ottawa Centre Liberal candidate... Spotted on Parliament Hill

- From The Wheatsheaf on Sep 17, 16:24 EDT)

anythingbutconservative.com. -srbp-

- From The Robert Bond Papers on Sep 17, 16:13 EDT)

I went to a Stephane Dion rally at Kitchener's Conestoga College today. They must have been expecting a lot fewer people than they got, because they had re-arranged a large room so that it held only 100 people or less and they got three or four times that. I managed to see the proceedings…

- From Yappa Ding Ding on Sep 17, 16:06 EDT)

Ich bin schon seit Montag morgen in Toronto, habe hier aber noch kein Internet, sodass ich mich jetzt erst von der York Uni aus melden kann. Ich bin zur Zeit bei Ingar und habe mittlerweile einen recht ueppigen Stundenplan aller interessanter Kurse, die ich seit gestern besuche. Die Titel und…

- From Matthias de Marburg � Qu�bec on Sep 17, 15:49 EDT)

Remember that the Nanos poll is a roiling poll of two days. That means that when it shows a party go up 1%, for example, they may have actually gone up .5% on day one and 1.5% on day two. This is important when you read this poll here, which is the Nanos poll for the last two days.Why do I…

- From Cherniak on Politics on Sep 17, 15:47 EDT)

So, Harper’s “never thrown a stone.” Geez! Does he even drink beer? Thank goodness he doesn’t eat his hot dogs with a knife and a fork, eh? By the way, I’ve been really down on Dion’s rather hapless campaigning during the first week, but I have to say that I was quite…

- From Red Tory on Sep 17, 15:43 EDT)

Check out this hilarious vid on Sarah Palin

- From Rolling Back the Tide of Extremism, One Post at a Time on Sep 17, 15:17 EDT)

many of us have long suspected that the harper government doesn't have anything left to say that they haven't already said.WELLAND, Ont. — Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday he would move to further clamp down on marketing of tobacco products to children.The Conservatives have…

- From where'd that bug go on Sep 17, 15:15 EDT)

I've written three posts over the past couple of months focused on the GST for municipalities. One was in response to a TorStar report on the Liberal strategy for municipalities. The second responded to another (and supporting) editorial in The Star. The third was a copy of my letter written…

- From Challenging the Commonplace on Sep 17, 15:01 EDT)

John McCain gets goofier by the day. He'll say anything that suits him at the moment and, to be charitable, he probably can't tell fact from fiction any longer. The guy who would be POTUS has completely lost touch with reality. Here he is discussing why Palin is capable to handle…

- From Rolling Back the Tide of Extremism, One Post at a Time on Sep 17, 14:04 EDT)