#Federal election 2021: Something sounds off

#Federal election 2021: Something sounds off

“#Federal election 2021: Something sounds off” Tone has been a major issue for the Conservative Party of Canada since its founding in 2003. The early opposition years featured an angry (yet deserved) focus on Liberal sleaze (see: Scandal, Sponsorship), while the early years in government were chippy on account of their rather tenuous position as…

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#Erin O’Toole’s Grade 8 vision: become PM

#Erin O’Toole’s Grade 8 vision: become PM

“#Erin O’Toole’s Grade 8 vision: become PM” Way back in grade school, in Port Perry, Ont., the now Tory leader penned his likely ‘fate’ in his class year book: “Prime Minister” I hesitate to say the word “yearbook” out loud in the middle of a Canadian federal election but bear with me: this is the…

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#Introducing Erin O’Toole in the role of Santa Claus

#Introducing Erin O’Toole in the role of Santa Claus

“#Introducing Erin O’Toole in the role of Santa Claus” Election Image of the Day: The Tory leader says his government would declare a one-month GST ‘holiday’ for retail purchases made this December Canada’s poor little goods and services tax has been given a hard time in its 30-year life. Brian Mulroney introduced it amid ferocious…

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#Erin O’Toole fills in blanks

#Erin O’Toole fills in blanks

“#Erin O’Toole fills in blanks” Paul Wells: The Conservative leader dropped a brick of a platform document in an attempt to answer every question anyone will ever have about him and his party Increasingly I think detailed campaign platform documents are terrible for governance. They shackle entire governments, struggling with the unimaginable realities of life…

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#O’Toole’s blind side, Trudeau’s big gamble and other keys to the campaign

#O’Toole’s blind side, Trudeau’s big gamble and other keys to the campaign

“#O’Toole’s blind side, Trudeau’s big gamble and other keys to the campaign” A month before the 2008 election, the Conservatives put a juvenile and irritating online attack on Liberal Leader Stephane Dion, featuring an animation of a puffin defecating on Dion’s head. Voters recoiled, Stephen Harper blamed an overenthusiastic staffer, apologized and ordered the image…

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#Jagmeet Singh and the case for second chances

#Jagmeet Singh and the case for second chances

“#Jagmeet Singh and the case for second chances” It ought to be noted by somebody that NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is going into this stupid, cynical, unnecessary federal election that nobody actually wants looking pretty damn strong.  The polls have remained remarkably static, but what glimmers of insight that can be gained suggest an NDP…

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