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Accidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links

Assorted content to end your week. - Sid Ryan takes on the Harper/Hudak double-team effort to prevent workers from having any voice in our political direction: (T)here can be little doubt that what...

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Accidental Deliberations: The litmus test

Regina’s municipal election is fast approaching – with advance voting set to begin this week. Unfortunately, the sheer volume of candidates (which, to be clear, I take to be a positive sign as to...

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Accidental Deliberations: #yqrvotes Endorsements

As promised, I’ll close off my posting about the municipal elections with a quick round of endorsements. I won’t try to cover all of the wards and races, nor will I suggest that any of the candidates...

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Alberta Diary: Campaign Diary Volume 15: When you vote on Monday, vote...

Here’s a video of my opening remarks to the St. Albert Chamber of Commerce all-candidates’ forum last night. Here are my opening remarks at the fair and well-run St. Alberta Chamber of Commerce...

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Alberta Diary: Campaign Diary Volume 18: It’s election day today, it’s...

Today’s St. Albert voting locations. Today is election day in St. Albert, and it’s hard to imagine a more important election for our community in recent years. The intervention by well-funded anonymous...

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daveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Alberta politics 2013: Big City Mayors

TweetA generational shift in Edmonton Framed as a lacklustre and uneventful campaign, local media and many mainstream pundits missed one of the most important stories of this year’s mayoral election in...

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The Cracked Crystal Ball II: Municipal Voters: Partisan Intervention is...

Did you mistakenly think that the Manning Centre’s attempt to bend the 2013 Calgary municipal election to more “conservative” was an aberration?  You would be quite wrong. The author of the Metro News...

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Trashy's World: As O-Town doesn’t really have a Mayoral race to speak of…

… this political junkie has to find another one to follow and enjoy. And Toronto, the land of the crack-smoking, loud, obnoxious, and the tacky champion of all Torontonians with a sub 75 IQ, is the...

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The Liberal Scarf: Why I’m supporting Alvin Tedjo for Mississauga Ward 2

I haven’t had too much opportunity to blog lately, but it certainly hasn’t been as a result of not being politically active – indeed, I’ve been working every day for the past month or so helping run...

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Trashy's World: Ottawa City Council candidates worth voting for!

I have already endorsed some of these candidates in past posts, but being that it is only a few days till E Day, I thought I’d go over some of them again. Jean Cloutier will be a fine representative...

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Scott's DiaTribes: Ottawa attack, Municipal Election Day, LPCO weekend

That title pretty well sums up my post today. In order of title: I’ve waited for a few days before deciding to comment on the Ottawa attack where a shooter killed an unarmed Canadian solider and then...

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The Liberal Scarf: Joe Horneck would be strong addition to Mississauga City...

It was a great personal experience to serve as Alvin Tedjo’s campaign manager in Mississauga Ward 2 this fall, one that really made me think about the future of my hometown as it builds an independent...

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The Liberal Scarf: Why I’m supporting Alvin Tedjo for Mississauga Ward 2

I haven’t had too much opportunity to blog lately, but it certainly hasn’t been as a result of not being politically active – indeed, I’ve been working every day for the past month or so helping run...

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The Liberal Scarf: Why I’m supporting Alvin Tedjo for Mississauga Ward 2

I haven't had too much opportunity to blog lately, but it certainly hasn't been as a result of not being politically active - indeed, I've been working every day for the past month or so helping run...

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The Liberal Scarf: Joe Horneck would be strong addition to Mississauga City...

It was a great personal experience to serve as Alvin Tedjo’s campaign manager in Mississauga Ward 2 this fall, one that really made me think about the future of my hometown as it builds an independent...

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The Liberal Scarf: Joe Horneck would be strong addition to Mississauga City...

It was a great personal experience to serve as Alvin Tedjo's campaign manager in Mississauga Ward 2 this fall, one that really made me think about the future of my hometown as it builds an independent...

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Accidental Deliberations: #yqrvotes – Election Day Resources

While I haven’t written much about Regina’s municipal election (except for the column linked here), I’ll point out a few of the resources worth considering before casting ballots today. Again,...

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Alberta Politics: St. Albert inspection report points fingers at outrageous...

PHOTOS: Consultant George Cuff, author of the City of St. Albert “inspection report,” at St. Albert City Hall after yesterday afternoon’s special council meeting. In the background, portraits of...

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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links

Assorted content to start your week. – Robert Reich examines how a concerted attack on organized labour has pushed the vast majority of American workers into living paycheque-to-paycheque (or worse)...

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THE FIFTH COLUMN: THE FIFTH COLUMN 2018-10-13 19:17:00

On Democracy What a better way to restart The Fifth Column than by a treatise on how to make our democracy actually democratic. Hopefully this will be the first posting in a newly regenerated Fifth...

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