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From the pages of Nature’s Climate Change Journal
Nature Climate Change, Members of the public with the highest degrees of science literacy and…
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted May 28th | @stephen_taylor
About that National Post op-ed…
A few days ago, the esteemed Kelly McParland of the National Post published a piece…
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted May 23rd | @stephen_taylor
Quebec-style student strike to come to Ontario?
Members of the Canadian Federation of Students are petitioning the organization to call an Ontario-wide…
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted May 17th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Stunning statistic
If Quebec were a country, its debt-to-GDP ratio would be 5th highest of the OECD…
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted May 17th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Christy Clark’s missed opportunity
Tom Mulcair has had a busy week. In his first real outing on the national…
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted May 17th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Free Speech under attack!
Here’s something I didn’t know 24 hours ago. Did you know that it is illegal for anyone in the National Capital Region to use the term “Parliament Hill” to describe a place or business that isn’t that hill on which … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted May 16th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Charest should dig in, and then call election
Quebec politics are always interesting, and sometimes detestable. The past few months have proven this again to be true. Quebec students are marching in the streets by the tens of thousands on a regular basis demanding that the government reverse … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted May 15th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Peter MacKay, in context
News from last week included the opposition finding outrage in an apparent discrepancy of cost estimation of the Canadian mission in Libya by Defence Minister Peter MacKay. In an interview on CBC’s The House with Evan Solomon last October MacKay … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted May 12th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Canadians on the federal parties
According to the latest Nanos Survey, Party personality – Conservative Party: Let’s assume for a moment that each federal political party was a person. What one word would you use to describe the personality of each of the following political … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted April 28th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
What do you think of this?
Just a small observation about recent NDP caucus appointments made by Thomas Mulcair and different reactions to them. What do you make of this? Liberal “interim” leader Bob Rae, I have one deputy leader who now does the work of … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted April 20th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
One or the other
There’s an election in Canada. And the classic divide is between two parties. One party has been endorsed by the National Post, the other by the Globe and Mail. One party accuses the other of racism, sexism and homophobia, while … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted April 19th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
I never thought they’d stoop so low
The Alberta election is in its last week and it’s been an angry and desperate one for the PC Party of Alberta. At the outset of the campaign, polls showed that party and their chief rivals on the right — … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted April 18th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Pat Martin apologizes to Racknine
APOLOGY on Behalf of Patrick Martin and the NDP to Mr. Matt Meier and RackNine Inc. On February 23, 2012, I appeared before the national media to speak in response to the important issue of “Robocalls” in the 2011 general … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted April 16th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Does the Alberta PC Party understand oil?
Take a look at the PC Party of Alberta’s new ad featuring their leader Alison Redford. In the ad, there’s a featured shot of an oil production facility with the words “Leading the Nation”. Here’s a still from the video: … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted April 15th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Wait, what?
From the Vancouver Sun, Twelve of the world’s poorest countries – including Afghanistan, Pakistan and seven nations in Africa – are going to be hit as the Conservative government cuts its foreign aid budget by $377 mil-lion in the next … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted April 13th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Poll: Wildrose and PC gap tightens to 8
Campaign Research’s third weekly tracking poll shows that the Alberta election gap between Wildrose and the PC Party has tightened to 8 points. Some key findings of the poll: - Wildrose: 42.8%, PC: 34.4% - PC party gain comes at … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted April 12th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Asked and answered
Here is the new leader of the NDP, Thomas Mulcair in his first Question Period as leader of the opposition, Questions about middle-class jobs. That was only a few days ago. This morning, Statscan had welcome news for Canadians, OTTAWA … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted April 5th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
New Poll: Wildrose up by 17 points
Another poll shocker from Campaign Research today as their latest tracking poll shows the Wildrose Party in Alberta up by 17 points over the PC Party. You’ll remember a week ago that Campaign Research first released their poll via this … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted April 4th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
It’s getting nasty in Alberta
Well, that didn’t take long. After Alberta Premier Alison Redford promised a few days ago to run a positive campaign, this tweet from one of her staffers regarding Redford’s chief political opponent Danielle Smith from the Wildrose Party, Amanda Wilkie … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted March 30th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Alberta’s Wildrose way out ahead
Polling done by market research firm Campaign Research was completed last night in Alberta and the results are no short of stunning. The details: - Wildrose is leading the PC Party by 9 points across the province - Wildrose leads … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted March 28th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Early budget details
It’s budget week for the federal government and as we’ve seen with previous budgets, some details are starting to leak out already. Here are some confirmed and likely details we’re learning: - House of Commons has offered a 6.9% budget … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted March 28th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Thomas Mulcair’s NDP
Seven Months, 131,000 members, 69,000 votes, 4 ballots, Thomas Mulcair: 57%. This past weekend in Toronto, the federal New Democrats elected the next leader of their party and Her Majesty’s Leader of the Loyal Opposition. Riding the so-called Orange Wave … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted March 26th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
This looks familiar…
As spoofed by the Chris Matthews show. Lots of coverage in the US. Journalists do like to cover itself, it seems.
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted March 26th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
British budget today
The coalition government of Prime Minister David Cameron unveiled their budget today in Westminster. Not billed as an austerity budget as has been done in years past, the Tories are spinning the budget as a “Radical, Reforming Budget” that “supports … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted March 21st, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Conservatives release new ads
Pivoting from a deflating robocall narrative in the Mainstream Media, the Conservatives have released a couple of ads today for news reaction and twitter convulsion. The ads themselves were released late last night on YouTube just under the by-election blackout … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted March 19th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Competition lives here
CBC Music launched its digital music download service in the last few weeks. I can’t help but notice the similarity in the branding of the campaign launch to Google Plus’ offering: Why is CBC competing with private industry in sectors … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted March 15th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Canadian spectrum announcement
The Harper government has just released word that it is making significant policy changes to ownership of the Canadian spectrum with respect to wireless telecom use. The highlights: Relaxing foreign ownership rules allows an influx of investment and capital into … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted March 14th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Who is Pierre Poutine?
John Ivison published an interesting piece in the National Post last week that breezed by what would have been technobabble to some, Mr. Meier set out to follow the digital trail himself. Pierre Jones had covered his tracks sufficiently that … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted March 12th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Why did everyone play naive?
From an earlier post, A lot of ink and broadcast bandwidth has been dedicated to 31,000 “complaints” filed with Elections Canada regarding the so-called Robocall Scandal. The opposition is trying to construct a media narrative of a broad orchestrated conspiracy. … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted March 12th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Stop Spending like Mad Men
Here’s the new ad that we released today. What do you think?
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted March 9th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
John Fryer apologizes to Campaign Research
The boys and girls at Campaign Research are really racking up the apologies and clarifications this week. Fryer is referencing an article that appeared in the “Vancouver Observer” and his letter to the Globe and Mail.
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted March 8th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Pat Martin statement to Campaign Research
From: NDP/NPD Communications Sent: March 7, 2012 5:00 PM To: NDP/NPD Communications Subject: Statement by MP Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre) // Déclaration du député Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre) Statement by MP Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre) On Sunday, February 26, 2012, … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted March 7th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Robocall protest falls flat
First, voter suppression is a serious thing, and as an extension, false allegations of voter suppression are serious too. Elections Canada should investigate fully and prosecute any wrong-doing if it is shown to exist. My guess is that Guelph is … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted March 5th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Attn Pat Martin: “You are being sued”
This statement of claim was filed against NDP MP Pat Martin today by Racknine.
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted March 2nd, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
RIP Andrew Breitbart
Andrew Breitbart has died. He was 43. The news was a bit shocking when I saw it passively cross my twitter feed this morning via Brian Lilley. Twitter announcements of celebrity deaths are to be automatically taken with a dose … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted March 1st, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Campaign Research fires back at Martin
Campaign Research is firing back at Pat Martin for comments the NDP Winnipeg MP made on CTV’s Question Period yesterday. Campaign Research writes to Martin, “we ask that you immediately provide a writtenstatement to be published on your MP website … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted February 27th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Racknine says Pat Martin defamed company
Below are two letters of correspondence counsel for Racknine has sent to Pat Martin and the NDP complaining of defamation. It seems that Racknine and its CEO Matt Meier are only demanding an apology at this point.
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted February 25th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
NDP Membership numbers – comparison
The NDP just released their membership number totals prior to the upcoming vote for NDP leader. The number just released is: 128,351 For comparison, let’s look at CPC and LPC numbers during leadership races in the respective parties. CPC sold … Continue reading →
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted February 21st, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Justin Trudeau approves this message
Justin Trudeau gives the speech of his, nay our lives.
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted February 14th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
Sun News interview at CPAC
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics | more | posted February 11th, 2012 | @stephen_taylor
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