Canada - Monday, September 8th, 2008
Posted on 08 September 2008 by Jack
CTV | Tories make strong gains in battleground ridings
The Conservatives made strong gains in key battleground ridings leading up to the election call, but voters are divided on whether they should trust the party with a majority government, according a new Strategic Counsel poll of tight ridings in three provinces.
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National Post | Forced To Go To Polls, Harper Says
National Post | Ivison: Ivison: Mr. Harper’s ‘just say no campaign’
National Post | Greens have wide protest streak: poll
National Post | Editorial: Let’s see some excitement, people
Montreal Gazette | Voters apathetic, angry, bored
Montreal Gazette | Editorial: The phony war is over, let the conflict begin
CTV | Former Alta. cabinet minister Larry Shaben dies
EDMONTON — Larry Shaben, a former Alberta cabinet minister who was forced to huddle in the bush overnight after surviving a deadly 1984 plane crash, died of cancer Saturday at age 73.
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National Post | Hanna hits Atlantic Canada with heavy rains
DARTMOUTH, N.S. — Post-tropical Storm Hanna has touched down in the Maritimes with heavy rains and high winds in Nova Scotia, as emergency agencies kept a close watch on the storm Sunday.
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Ottawa Citizen | Frigate upgrade latest defence announcement timed for election
The Conservative government plans as early as this week to announce a $1 billion contract to upgrade the navy’s frigates, the latest in a series of defence procurements timed for the election campaign.
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The Star | Goar: Canada’s low-profile women
Anyone who hopes this election will produce a breakthrough for women in Canadian politics is in for a disappointment.
Anyone who would like to see women of all political stripes step into the spotlight, speaking out passionately about their vision and values, had best watch the election campaign south of the border.
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Popularity: 12% [?]
September 8th, 2008 at 7:54 am
“…but voters are divided on whether they should trust the party with a majority government,…”
Who is CTV speaking for, the Liberals? Enough with the “scary majority” crap. What would Canadians prefer, another round of ADSCAM, Shawinigate, BDC bully tactics, Strippergate, etc, etc with a Liberal majority? They’d “trust” the Libs, NDP, Greens or BLOC as an alternative?
Instead of playing on the meme of worry, worry and hand wringing on all those “tough” choices to make come putting an X on a ballot, the least the MSM can do is just report the policy platforms of each party and let us decide. If anything, the MSM should be exhorting the apathetique 50% who don’t vote to get up off their whining, carping, worrying arses and VOTE!
If people vascilated like this at their jobs they wouldn’t last long if they were in the decision making department, but then they’d have E-Eye-E-Eye-Oh to help them transition to another line of work. It’s no wonder that “productivity” is so low in this country, everybody wants an “Easy Button”. SOGOTP.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:26 am
People are not happy with an election, some say, they are afraid of a majority, some say, they are afraid, blah blah blah.
Message to the media, quit being in the tank for the liberals, tell the people a majority means no election for at least 4 years. Try it, you might like it.
Minority means another election in about 2 yrs.
September 8th, 2008 at 11:21 am
WEll SAID, Mary T and jt. You should have posted it under the Feature Article at top.
Notice to readers: Tonight, Steve Paikin of the AGENDA at TVO will cover how the internet is affecting elections on both sides of the border.