Bloc blocked, bluster begins
By Martin Patriquin - Friday, September 26, 2008 - 11 Comments
THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED. See below….
Sébastien Caron is a brave fellow. He
THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED. See below.
Sébastien Caron is a brave fellow. He is the Liberal candidate for Laurier-Sainte-Marie, where he has to contend with two (two!) communist parties vying for precious Liberal votes. Oh, and Caron also happens to be running against Gilles Duceppe, the preternaturally popular leader of the Bloc Québécois, who in the last election garnered over half the votes and beat his nearest competitor––a Liberal, coincidentally or not–by nearly 19,000 votes. [UPDATE: Wrong! It was actually the NDP that took second place, by about 16,000. So much for my narrative.]
It seems Mr. Caron’s plight attracted the attention of an internet vigilante, who has used his powers, such as they are, to ‘help’ Mr. Caron–whether Mr. Caron wants it or not. Threats and means words from Bloc HQ ensued.
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So an astronaut, a lawyer and a journalist walk into Oink Oink…*
By Martin Patriquin - Monday, July 7, 2008 at 2:15 PM - 0 Comments
THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED AND CORRECTED….
CBC Radio stalwart Anne Lagacé-Dowson has (temporarily,
THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED AND CORRECTED.
CBC Radio stalwart Anne Lagacé-Dowson has (temporarily, at least) left the mother ship to run for the NDP in the upcoming by-elections in Westmount. Now, before anyone cracks wise about the NDP’s chances in the place of “11,000 City trees plus a myriad of carefully tended private lawns and gardens” (not my words, I assure you), it’s worth remembering that a hirsute, fire-bellied fella named Thomas Mulcair won a seat for the Knee Dippers in Outremont last year.
Westmount is/was as much a spendy Liberal bastion as Outremont, and is afflicted with a similar bourgeoisie stereotype that masks a sizable middle class reality: south of St Catherine Street for Westmount, and east of, say, de L’Epée for Outremont.
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ADQ for the NDP!
By Paul Wells - Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 7:26 AM - 0 Comments
It’s true. Well, “polling true” anyway, and that sometimes resembles real-life truth: according to today’s big CROP poll, one-quarter of supporters of Mario Dumont’s right-leaning, politically incorrect Action Démocratique party at the provincial level in Quebec would have voted for Jack Layton’s leftie, politically correct NDP at the federal level. Mind you, Continue…
