Well.. I’m not particularly surprised at the Star rejecting MMP in their editorial today. They pulled out every distortion of MMP they could find to belittle it and try to fear-monger with. What surprises me out of this editorial is that according to the Star, everything is hunky-dorey with FPTP and nothing is broke, [...]

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I agree with Jeff and Steve: If the budget goes against Liberal ideals and we think it’s a bad budget for the country, it had better be voted down en masse by Liberals in their seats, there better not be a weak-kneed mass of absent Liberal MP’s from their seats, and we better be [...]

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.A new poll from Ipsos says the Ontario Liberals are headed towards a majority government on October 10 - opening up a 10 point lead over the PC’s.
By the way, the same poll shows that the “leadership matters” theme Tory has tried to portray himself as having as opposed to Dalton McGuinty has failed - [...]

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If you’ve read his columns dating back the past year, it will not shock you that Ian Urquhart has come out against MMP this morning in his column in the Toronto Star. His rationale is interesting - apparently it comes down to more parties is a bad thing and we MIGHT get that under MMP, [...]

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I thought after Martin had left, that maybe we’d get some advisers with some political savvy to advise the new leader, but at least one of them has proven me wrong.
Jamie Carroll is a carbon-copy of Scott Reid, and that in my opinion is not a good thing.
I’m not going to dive off the deep [...]

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A H/T to Jim Calder of the Progressive Right for finding this story; John Tory on the picking of list candidates in the National Post:
The Conservative leader went on to say that if the referendum passes, his party will likely find a democratic way to develop its list of candidates. “The history of our party [...]

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Let’s face it, one of the problems we have in this country and in this province is that a lot of young people simply do not feel engaged enough to participate in the electoral system. I believe the figure I’ve seen is that only 20% of “young voters” bother to vote. [...]

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And now for something completely different. I saw this in a thread over at Bread n’ Roses by Anne Cameron on how to exterminate rats without introducing harmful poison to the environment:
The best use for instant mashed spuds I ever found was RODENTS…I didn’t like to use rat poison because on a farm [...]

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Not too long ago, I criticized John Tory for having the audacity to complain that MMP would mean that List Candidates would be “appointed” by party leaders, and these MPP’s would then only answer to the party. I pointed out that Tory was in a position as PC party leader to help prevent [...]

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If the NDP’s documents that they obtained through the Freedom Of Information Act are correct, it appears the Department of National Defence wrote up Afghan President Karzai’s speech to Parliament last year:
The party’s defence critic, Dawn Black, says the papers indicate Karzai’s address was an “elaborately staged political stunt.” Black held a news conference [...]

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