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« Reply #2275 on: November 23, 2013, 08:40:37 PM »

Personally, I would've called the riding "Calgary - Acadia - Spruce Meadows" or perhaps just "Acadia - Spruce Meadows", but perhaps Calgary hasn't graduated to the point of being able to have ridings that don't have the city name in it (like Toronto, Montreal or... Winnipeg)
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« Reply #2276 on: November 23, 2013, 08:50:19 PM »

Personally, I would've called the riding "Calgary - Acadia - Spruce Meadows" or perhaps just "Acadia - Spruce Meadows", but perhaps Calgary hasn't graduated to the point of being able to have ridings that don't have the city name in it (like Toronto, Montreal or... Winnipeg)

Heck, even Halifax has Dartmouth-Cole Harbour and Sackville-Eastern Shore. Tongue
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« Reply #2277 on: November 23, 2013, 10:58:16 PM »

Personally, I would've called the riding "Calgary - Acadia - Spruce Meadows" or perhaps just "Acadia - Spruce Meadows", but perhaps Calgary hasn't graduated to the point of being able to have ridings that don't have the city name in it (like Toronto, Montreal or... Winnipeg)

Heck, even Halifax has Dartmouth-Cole Harbour and Sackville-Eastern Shore. Tongue

(Recent) Amalgamations don't count, which is why I didn't include Ottawa. Although, contradicting this rule is Ottawa-Orleans which never included any part of Ottawa before amalgamation in 2001. For this reason, I'd just drop "Ottawa" from the name, and possibly add "Gloucester" after ("Orleans-Gloucester").
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« Reply #2278 on: November 25, 2013, 12:12:05 AM »

PET's war on economics. Knew the policies, not some of the quotes.
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« Reply #2279 on: November 25, 2013, 02:25:41 PM »

Gagnon unintentionally hilariously summarizes Couillard's tenure as PLQ leader thus far. Flip-flop, refuse to impose caucus discipline and hide from the media. Oh, and get interviewed by police. PRODIGAL SON RETURNS!!! This isn't the Couillard I remember from last time.

On another subject, Hastman interview.
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« Reply #2280 on: November 25, 2013, 03:14:22 PM »

Calandra trolled real hard today: calling Mulcair a corrupt Liberal who accepted that bribe and saying 3/4 of Grits have fraud convictions in their past.
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« Reply #2281 on: November 25, 2013, 03:18:30 PM »

Ontario is banning coal. Sad

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« Reply #2282 on: November 25, 2013, 03:26:56 PM »

Unfortunately that's an all-party consensus in Ontario now, even for the severely conservative Tories. Pity.
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« Reply #2283 on: November 25, 2013, 05:01:31 PM »

Coal is disgusting. Why shouldn't we ban it?
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« Reply #2284 on: November 25, 2013, 09:01:18 PM »

 
Unfortunately that's an all-party consensus in Ontario now, even for the severely conservative Tories. Pity.

Wow, no kidding.
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« Reply #2285 on: November 27, 2013, 10:52:24 PM »

Conservatives are continuing to well-manage the public money, as they apparently appointed a friend of Flaherty as President of the Royal Mint.

Through, he apparently ran a tax-dodging scheme in the past. Another dubious appointment by Tories, we are getting used to it.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jim-love-canadian-mint-chairman-helped-run-offshore-tax-avoidance-scheme-for-clients-1.2441347
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« Reply #2286 on: November 27, 2013, 11:03:40 PM »

He should be fired, obviously.
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« Reply #2287 on: November 28, 2013, 10:17:47 PM »

National Ipsos: 35 LPC, 29 CPC, 26 NDP. 37-30-29 in Ontario, 37L/30N/29C in BC, 33/27/27/12 in QC. Among highly motivated voters 37L. This said, I love me some comparative vote efficiency, among other things.
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« Reply #2288 on: November 29, 2013, 11:58:24 AM »

A three way clusterf[inks]ck election would be fun.
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« Reply #2289 on: November 29, 2013, 12:01:51 PM »

A three way clusterf[inks]ck election would be fun.

Parts of Quebec City could be a legit 4 way race like Gatineau in 08.
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« Reply #2290 on: November 29, 2013, 12:20:38 PM »

Yeah, that's projected as 126 Liberals, 121 Tories, 60 NDP and 30 BQ. Needless to say Harper would quit after a decent interval if the Tories were reduced to a minority. I find the Quebec numbers most interesting, given that they're very different from CROP which shows a BQ shutout (!). I'd believe CROP and Leger over Ipsos for QC myself.

Another thing is that a weak Liberal minority in 2015 could be bad for them long-term. Rookie PM has to form a government from aging (and not so aging, like Brison) veterans, many of whom I expect to retire soon, and newcomers not only to Parliament, but in many cases elected office and guide it to an early election against Kenney and Cullen/Leslie/? That's probably one reason why they've leaked a 2-election strategy before.
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« Reply #2291 on: November 29, 2013, 12:55:28 PM »

OLP wants Trudeau to help them at election time. Guess running on a tax increase isn't as fun as it sounded.
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« Reply #2292 on: December 01, 2013, 10:36:19 AM »

Looks like Horwath is finally ready to go for gold and pull the plug this spring. "I've made it clear that I'm seeking the job of premier." another Ipsos or NanoWe need s poll here. As a reminder, here's the one from last month. Something for everyone in there.
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« Reply #2293 on: December 01, 2013, 11:07:28 PM »

Ontario Dippers: does Horwath really think she could win? Those Ipsos LV numbers suggest a certain type of Horwath surge could lead to a Tory government.
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« Reply #2294 on: December 01, 2013, 11:36:24 PM »

Ontario Dippers: does Horwath really think she could win? Those Ipsos LV numbers suggest a certain type of Horwath surge could lead to a Tory government.

The NDP hasn't had this much of a chance of winning since 1990, so yes. I have seen polls over the last couple of years that showed a 3 way race, with all three parties in the low 30s.
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« Reply #2295 on: December 01, 2013, 11:42:35 PM »

As always it'll be won in the campaign, and no one's really opened up on the NDP yet. More generally I'd like to be cautiously optimistic. Tongue
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« Reply #2296 on: December 02, 2013, 12:21:24 PM »

Ontario Dippers: does Horwath really think she could win? Those Ipsos LV numbers suggest a certain type of Horwath surge could lead to a Tory government.

The NDP hasn't had this much of a chance of winning since 1990, so yes. I have seen polls over the last couple of years that showed a 3 way race, with all three parties in the low 30s.
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« Reply #2297 on: December 02, 2013, 04:22:48 PM »

Congrats OLP, you're doubling hydro prices!
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« Reply #2298 on: December 02, 2013, 05:35:12 PM »


The BC "free-entreprise coalition" is proposing to raise them by 27%, too.
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« Reply #2299 on: December 02, 2013, 05:42:07 PM »

More inane provincial ideas: PQ wants to limit the discounts on books.
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