Well, it looks like Liberal bloggers are on the same page as Scott Brison in our various descriptions of what the Conservative caucus acts like:
“I was shocked to read Ms. Kovach’s comments in (the Guelph Mercury Tuesday) on the Truscott case,” Brison said. “Her refusal to comment on an important issue to people in this [...]

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Frank Valeriote officially opened up his campaign office in Guelph today.  Here are some pictures of the event:
Marva was one of the folks running for the Liberal candidacy in Guelph, and she was at the event today to show her support for Frank, and was joined by Scott Brison, who also came to Guelph to [...]

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It seems our blogging comrade, Christian Conservative, a Blogging Tory member in Guelph, didn’t like Steve calling Gloria Kovach (and by extension, the rest of the Conservative caucus) trained seals over her lack of independent thought on an issue without first getting guidance from the PMO.
Red Tory responded he preferred the description of “Sock Puppet” [...]

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I wrote back a few blogposts ago about the Conservatives using the public purse for propaganda in their advertising blitz - mainly to ridings not currently held by them. I also mentioned that locally, Dave Mackenzie had been sending out flyers to his own constituency here in Oxford in his name. I had stated that [...]

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For awhile now, I’ve been keeping my eyes on the Guelph Mercury,  the main newspaper in Guelph, to see whats been going on with byelection coverage, as well as their Guelph Votes! election blog. I have a special interest in that by-election, because Guelph is where I went to University and graduated from.  I was [...]

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Why, they go out and help campaign and door-knock to help Frank Valeriote - Guelph Liberal candidate - get elected:
Pretty nice turnout, it appears.  Ground game is going to be essential in this byelection, because despite the Conservatives trying to downplay they have a shot at winning this riding, they are making an all-out attempt [...]

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I was talking to one of my friends last night who graduated with me in Political Science from The U. Of Guelph. He now works as a Conservative Party staffer, and is more “conservative” then even what the official Conservative Party orthodoxy is right now which they are trying to present to the Canadian public. [...]

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If you’ve read some of the blogs on the progressive side of the blogosphere today and yesterday, you’ve seen blogposts from bloggers reporting that people in ridings who are not currently being held by the Conservatives are getting flyers in their mail from other Conservative MP’s outside of the riding in an effort to spread [...]

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Just saw this come over the newswire as well as in an email from a high-ranking Liberal that the byelections in Guelph, Westmount and St Lambert are set for Sept 8th.
Guelph will be of particular interest to me, since I went to University there and lived there for a good stretch, and because I was [...]

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Bob Hepburn writes this morning in the Toronto Star asking Obama (figuratively) to come and visit Canada, arguing it would help him “hone his views” on Canada and policy towards us. Unfortunately, I don’t see that happenning. He doesn’t need to use Canada to practice his foreign diplomacy skills, as his tour to the Middle [...]

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