TorontoCrawler

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CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 36, LP 26, NDP 20, BQ 10, GP 9 (ending September 30) (2008-10-01)

• Read the detailed polls that come out on Thursdays - Conservatives are up in Ontario and will win more seats than last time. I'm one of your described "mino...
• Charter of Rights and Freedoms - uh, yeah, like I said, more recent immigrants don't have this fawning over Trudeau or his Charter (which IMHO...
• As far as I'm concerned, surplus is another word for overtaxation. A $15 billion surplus is nothing to be proud of. A $3 billion surplus leaves enough of a ...
• I'm sure for that riding it is true, and I'm sure there are other pockets here and there - I'm well aware of people who immigrated pre-1984 and possibly thei...
• Huh? I’m not sure what it was that you were trying to point out on that URL you posted. But this came out a few days ago though from another government webs...
• Oh sorry Informed1, I thought you were the original poster who started this thread - disregard my last paragraph in my first response, that wouldn't have bee...
• Okay (although I still don't really see it on that link you wrote)... were you replying to me or the original poster? I know we're in a surplus position, the...

SES Research Poll - Best PM - Harper 42%, Dion 17%, Layton 16% (2007-04-10)

• Blah blah blah blah.... people have been saying the same or similar fear-mongering statements since 2004... guess what - it doesn't work! The only way for th...

National Political Scene - Year in Review - What are your predictions for 2007? (2006-12-27)

• Enjoy pulling numbers out of your ass, Lorne? The "steal 19 seats from the Cons" in Ontario is especially ridiculous, when a huge chunk of those Ontario Libe...

Wheat Board President Fired (2006-12-20)

• What political donations from Cargill or other corporations? New Federal Accountability Act: corporate donations are banned now, and remember which party is ...
• As a consumer, that is not my concern. We are supposed to have a free market economy. The higher cost that Canadians have to pay for dairy products, whether ...
• Typically ignorant comment from someone who just buys wholly and been brainwashed into the Canadian myth that comes out of the Liberal left, almost word-for-...

Ontario Provincial Liberals Lead by Seven Points – Underlying Stats Provide Cold Comfort for Liberals (2006-12-17)

• The difference between the BC and Ontario Liberals are that BC Liberals actually are Conservatives, other than the moniker, and have no affiliation with the ...

Impact of new Liberal Leader Stephane Dion (2006-12-02)

• As time goes on, I'm finding that for more people now, when they hear climate change etc., all that gets registered in their minds since it's talked about so...
• "The next election may turn into a referendum on Mr. Harper and Dion will come out the winner because he will get the federalist vote in Quebec and will syph...
• Today's National Post: paraphrasing from Norman Wiseman, political science professor at University of Toronto: environment - vote factor for some, possibly. ...
• The other item I forgot to mention also is that few of the Liberals actually voted "for Stephane Dion". He got voted in as the "anyone but..." candidate. Eve...
• I'm disappointed also, but more because the forum seems to be not very active. I wouldn't expect Nik to give his best guess.... if he did, he would be accuse...

What Canadians like and dislike about the Liberal Party of Canada (2006-11-23)

• Nik, I wouldn't take McClelland's comments seriously. Anyone who has followed the Canadian political blogosphere knows who Robert McClelland is and has seen ...

Federal Tories-Grits Statistically Tied - Tory Turbulence in Quebec (2006-11-16)

• It would be more interesting for analytical purposes if you could break up the "West" into smaller regions (e.g. B.C., Alberta, and Sask/Man.), and also if y...
• Garth Turner's antics and self-promotion in the past week have shown exactly why the Conservatives were right in kicking him out of the party. Notice how nob...
• There is a line between not allowing individual MPs in voicing their opinions at all, and then divulging what is supposed to be a confidential and internal d...
• I actually did see a couple of posts referred to on a couple of the Blogging Tories blogs about previously posted items that mysteriously disappeared during ...
• I agree with you on judging your local representative on individual issues... if we had a Congressional or Republic system, and a separate Executive branch o...
• I should mention that the "12 hours" that I was referring to in my reply is the 12 hours right after Garth was booted when Garth Turner's Website blog immedi...