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Category Archives: Election

January 23, 2006

Sunday, January 22, 2006

I’m posting this here because the author of the post does not appreciate the "surgical precision" with which I reply to posts.  His unappreciation is so great that he has requested I not comment on his posts.  Fine with  me.  I’m not!  He does, however, express a common sentiment; viz.:
But whatever you do, vote. Voting’s [...]

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Election

Saturday, December 17, 2005

Like most moderately reasonable people with enough free time to waste on following the twists and turns of a federal election, I quickly got bored of it.  (There was nothing on TV last night except "Close to Home" and the leadership debate — which would you choose?)  Allow me to be cynical: there really is [...]

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Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

This post will serve as a dump for Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington election news and links as the silly campaign progresses culminating in a nearly-eternal return to the same on January 23, 2006.  Nonetheless, the question is posed: as someone of the "extreme" or "radical" left (as we are known in the media), what [...]

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Michael Ignatieff, Future Ruler of Canada

Monday, November 28, 2005

Michael Ignatieff, a man famous for many bad books and forgotten for one and a half decent books (A Just Measure of Pain and the co-edited volume, Wealth and Virtue, explains why he is running federally in the upcoming Canadian election for the Liberal Part. (A party whose government collapsed sometime around 7:10PM this [...]

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