Comments on: More more more meta

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:41:27 +0000

The difference: the Greens got more than a rounding error in terms of voteshare in the last election.

By: bud

bud — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:11:55 +0000

Kasey Jones:

Tell it to the Judge.

By: Kevin in Sk

Kevin in Sk — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:44:32 +0000

The Green’s, in ever sense of the word, are a true fringe party. They do not have broad appeal, they have never elected a single MP. Yet they get just as much ink as the Liberals or NDP, they are treated as a mainstream opposition party. They are invited to the leader’s debates when they have absolutely no legitimate reason to be included.

What makes the Green’s party mainstream, but at the same time precludes Canadian Action? I must have missed the editorial explaining this. Could you please reprint it for me?

By: Kevin in Sk

Kevin in Sk — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:37:18 +0000

I may be wrong, but I am thinking that media tries to influence my vote at least as much as any politician does.

For one thing, some parties get loads of coverage, while other parties in the same situation, get zero coverage. For example, in my riding, the local paper had a profile of the Green candidate, yet there was no mention of the Libertarian party or Christian Heritage candidates.

Maybe I am just a silly rube from Saskatchewan, but i did not think it was the media’s job to decide who was news and who was not. I thought their job was to present the facts so that i could decide.

By: Reading the Times | michaelcrook.ca

Reading the Times | michaelcrook.ca — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:23:04 +0000

[...] (via Paul Wells) here’s a link to a blog covering how the media are covering the election. It’s hosted by the Carleton Journalism & Communication Faculty. Wells seems pretty confident they’re all heavy hitters. [...]

By: kasey Jones

kasey Jones — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:15:22 +0000

Bud response…..you sure have mentioned a lot of Conservative members in the above message trying to discredit the liberals….do conservative crooks like Brault and Guite not count for starting this fiasco.

By: bud

bud — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:25:42 +0000

“Jacques Corriveau informed Jean Brault that he could intervene directly with the Prime Minister’s Office.

Corriveau also said he could intervene with and obtain information from [then-bureaucrat] Charles Guité on the status of sponsorship requests,” the search warrant said.

The document says Mr. Brault added that he first met Mr. Corriveau at a restaurant in Montreal along with two other Liberal supporters, former organizer Alain Renaud and current Liberal MP Denis Coderre.

Mr. Corriveau frequently asked for money on behalf of the Liberal Party, according to Mr. Brault, the document said.

“Corriveau told him: ‘It doesn’t go in my pockets, it goes to our cause,’” the document said. Mr. Brault told the RCMP that in order to get the money, Mr. Corriveau submitted “fake invoices … for services not rendered.”

The search warrant also says there were extensive dealings over the years between Groupaction and Groupe Polygone, a company that received $30-million under the sponsorship program. According to the search warrant, $6.7-million of those funds were given in subcontracts to Mr. Corriveau’s firm. Mr. Corriveau’s house was raided last year by the RCMP’s proceeds-of-crime unit, while Groupe Polygone’s offices were raided in June, 2005, on the same day that owner Luc Lemay was arrested and released.”

Trials in Sept. should be helpful for the former Unity Minister(1996-2003) with the 3 monkey defence.

By: Two Hats

Two Hats — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:18:16 +0000

I think it’s irony. A celebration of democracy interrupted by democracy in action (election events). Or, it can go ahead because people aren’t attending to actual democracy…

I mean, it’s not like it’s being disturbed by rain. Or spoons.

By: Paul Wells

Paul Wells — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:53:01 +0000

Dontcha think?

By: Darren Trent

Darren Trent — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:41:47 +0000

I don’t think that’s true irony.. more Alanis type irony..

By: Sisyphus

Sisyphus — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:25:03 +0000

The answer is (b).

By: Two Hats

Two Hats — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:21:16 +0000

Completely off topic, but I had to comment on it somewhere on these blogs:
On page 7 of this week’s magazine, there’s an ad for a “Celebration of 250 years of democracy” happening in Halifax.

I was struck my the irony that these celebrations, on Oct 2, will be either (a) disrupted because of the english-language leaders’ debate or (b) not affected because people are ignoring same….