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Brian Topp

Sep 21st, 2011
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Last week I got an invitation from Pat Atkinson to meet NDP leadership candidate Brian Topp at Amigo’s Cantina last night.  I have always been fascinated by NDP leadership races, partly because they make absolutely no sense to me and I never know what is going to happen on the convention floor.  (yeah I just [...]

Talking Jack

May 29th, 2011
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I have never been a big fan of NDP leader Jack Layton but this week just seemed to sum it all up.  Every time I flipped on the news, there was Jack talking up a storm about Stephen Harper’s secret agenda in changing the name of Indian and Northern Affairs to the more politically correct [...]

Jack Layton’s Long Weekend

Apr 30th, 2011
by Jordon Cooper.
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So back in 1997 Jack Layton was found in a “massage” parlour according to Toronto Sun crime reporter Sam Pazzano.  Pazzano doesn’t have a national profile but according to many reporters last night on Twitter, he has an excellent reputation as a “just the facts” reporter so I tend to believe the story.  While Jack [...]

My vote

Apr 29th, 2011
by Jordon Cooper.
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I became a Conservative in 1980.  I was six years old and I wandered in where my parents and friends were watching Pierre Trudeau defeat Joe Clark in the general election.  I asked what happened and I was told that a bad man had taken power and a good man had lost. Oh did I [...]

Jack Layton’s Political Future

Feb 1st, 2010
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Chantel Hebert on the future for the federal NDP.  There is good news and bad news for Layton and the NDP. That is not to say that Layton’s seven years can be summed up as just a streak of blind luck. Under his leadership, the NDP share of the national vote did go up in [...]

The Toronto Star’s Wishlist for 2010

Jan 1st, 2010
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I agree with a lot of it. STEPHEN HARPER (Prime Minister): Stop trying to score political points at the expense of the opposition and start addressing the very real challenges facing the country, both at home and abroad. MICHAEL IGNATIEFF (Leader of the Opposition): Draft a platform that positions the opposition Liberals as a viable [...]

I’ve heard this somewhere before…

Sep 3rd, 2009
by Jordon Cooper.
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Oh right, here it is.   Isn’t there a ban on ripping off campaign slogans of victorious politicians who are still in power?  If I was the NDP, I would stop with the gimmicky Obama references, go to Saskatchewan, camp out at Eric Cline, Roy Romanow, and Janice MacKinnon’s homes until they tell you how [...]

Tories fight back on Kinsella lawsuit

Aug 31st, 2009
by Jordon Cooper.
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The Canadian Press is reporting that the Tories are fighting back against Warren Kinsella’s lawsuit. The Conservatives sued the Liberals last year to silence allegations relating to an alleged $1-million life insurance offer for the vote of Independent MP Chuck Cadman. But the party now says the cut and thrust of political discourse shouldn’t be [...]

Not a good sign

Aug 27th, 2009
by Jordon Cooper.
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Check out the sign on the right, I imagine we will see this photo several times during the next election by the Liberals and the Tories.  Here is some wider context to the photo in the Globe and Mail.  If I was going to give any advice to Jack Layton (or Michael Ignatieff), it would [...]

Outrage at the deficit is all politics

May 31st, 2009
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Ian McDonald is saying what I have heard all this week about the deficit. A federal deficit that was forecast at $34 billion as recently as the January budget is now projected to be a least $50 billion. That’s quite a miss, 50 per cent on the upside, from a finance department better known for [...]

Buy Canadian

Feb 3rd, 2009
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I read this article and I found myself hoping that NDP leader Jack Layton was only playing to the gallery and doesn’t really think that a Buy Canadian policy would really work (even though we have Buy Nova Scotia policies for the Coast Guard already).  Protectionism didn’t work during the 30s and starting a trade [...]