All eyes remain fixed on the TorStar newsroom as we await the decision of the editorial board....

I can't recall another candidate who whines and figuratively stamps his feet every time something goes wrong. Dion's wimp factor is off the charts but he doesn't hold back in calling Harper names. Dion is the one that is "low class". Close your eyes and imagine this Sociology professor protecting your financial future, or staring down a group of terrorists intent on destroying our way of life. He is the biggest sick joke perpetrated on the Canadian public since Trudeau.(at least he had a backbone).
Posted by: D'Lewis at October 11, 2008 11:17 AMJe suis schlocked!!
Dew Over...
H'iam (je ne sais quois)
Due Over...
La plume de ma tante est sur la table.
Over Doo...
What a surprise Torstar.
Centre of the Universe.
Wonderful, since Dion and Layton "care" and "feel my pain" and are "in touch" blah, blah blah, is it fair to assume that if I lose my job or my pension fund evaporates due to their thoroughly discredited economic hocus pocus that they will personally show up at my home to share a group hug and sing "kumbayah"? Not bl##@y likely! Give me the hard-nosed economist who's going to give me the best chance of maintaining the integrity of the financial system any day. I'll get my hugs from my dog.
Posted by: DrD at October 11, 2008 11:37 AMAnd today's "AA" section is in 100% "destroy McCain and Palin" mode, undoubtedly written under the delusion that Canadians can (legally) vote in U.S. elections or that Americans read the Red Star. Did you know Bill Ayers isn't a terrorist? That's a smear.
Posted by: andycanuck at October 11, 2008 11:38 AM
Clear thinking from the debris-littered newsfloor of the Star, I'm sure. That picture says it all.
Who did the Tarantaaa Star endorse in say the last 3 elections?
Or even still since Confederation?
Anyone want to play "Where's Waldo?"
Posted by: Hard Right at October 11, 2008 11:55 AMThis proves it!
The janitorial staff did write the "support the Liberals" editorial.
Posted by: bud at October 11, 2008 11:57 AMlol!! I was expecting your link to take me to YouTube video, and then I would add a link to my post!
Great stuff, Kate. Thanks again.
Posted by: Joanne (T.B.) at October 11, 2008 11:57 AMImagine .... Dion standing outside the White House for a press scrum?
Posted by: Barbara at October 11, 2008 11:59 AMHarper's cut to the GST put close to 1 billion dollars in the hands of people making zero to $15000 dollars a year. The poor.
Even the 1% cut to the lowest marginal income tax did not do close to that amount.
You'd think a newspaper that rails on about helping the poor would be happy about this. However as we know they won't let their ideology get in the way of helping their friends.
Posted by: langmann at October 11, 2008 12:01 PMLiberal victory? = the rise of, thewestwantsout.com.
Coming your way soon?
If you want to vote illegally and or multiple times for Obama in the US election, just phone ACORN, they will sign you up.
Posted by: Kevin at October 11, 2008 12:04 PMTarantaaa Star Polls article Ontario
read the Comments for this article
they are totaly against the conservatives with one comment even making reference to a list of Liberal achievments over the years, No mention of the List of Ripoffs/thefts/boondoggle's/Entitlements
ACORN?
Mark Twain reports on the Copperheads, aka the Democ-rats (1864).
Same old same old.
"He [the Hon. H. P. Barbour of Tuolumne] considered himself better than a negro any day."
...-
"arraigned the Administration for nullification and negro equality;
pointed to a Democratic Administration as the only hope for the restoration of the unity of the nation and the Government; declared his confidence in the issue of the campaign, and exhorted the party to unity of action, asking no quarter, but to fight under the motto of "victory or death." He considered himself better than a negro any day."
"The San Francisco Daily Morning Call, September 1864
DEMOCRATIC RATIFICATION MEETING"
...-
Canada 2008:
Comrade Jeancula defends Comrade Brezhnev Dion; calls for a return of his ancien regime, neo-Stalinism.
"Tory attacks on Dion 'personal,' Chrétien says
Jean Chrétien says the attack that Stephen Harper launched against Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion over his interview foul-up reminds him of the dirty tactics he encountered when battling the separatists in Quebec in the 1990s" (NNW)
RIGHT ON!!!!!!!!!!
Western Candian--new west free west--english
nation. Ann
Tarantaaa Star.
For one brief moment, I though someone had the impulse to call that icon of fair journalism (for the people, by the people and screw the people) another name.
The Tarantula Star.
http://tinyurl.com/3jlkkz
Re Acorn: Man bribed to register to vote (numerous times)by Acorn. New York Post.
Posted by: MaryM at October 11, 2008 12:45 PMDion is an indecisive wimp, and the liberals all know it. They are hoping for the sympathy vote for the weak whimpering Dion.
The liberals would use anything they could against Harper, even his own children. They tried that.
All weekend all people will think about is what a weak duffuss Dion is. Yes, they will feel sorry for him, but not sorry enough to put their jobs and the Canadian economy in his trembling hands.
Unless the liberals can get a video of Harper sitting down to a large plate of steaming baby kittens at Thanksgiving dinner, they might as well kiss their asses good-bye.
Posted by: Honey Pot at October 11, 2008 12:48 PMDion is an indecisive wimp, and the liberals all know it. They are hoping for the sympathy vote for the weak whimpering Dion.
The liberals would use anything they could against Harper, even his own children. They tried that.
All weekend all people will think about is what a weak duffuss Dion is. Yes, they will feel sorry for him, but not sorry enough to put their jobs and the Canadian economy in his trembling hands.
Unless the liberals can get a video of Harper sitting down to a large plate of steaming baby kittens at Thanksgiving dinner, they might as well kiss their asses good-bye.
Posted by: Honey Pot at October 11, 2008 12:48 PMHi did not ave discourse wit that question!!!
Steffy
Posted by: syncrodox at October 11, 2008 12:55 PMWhat surprises me is that ONLY 50 people replied on the torstar story. How many people read that rag anyhow.?
Horny Toad
Posted by: Horny Toad at October 11, 2008 1:03 PMEvery time I see leftists use the term “neo-conservative” I laugh.
When that word is used the masses are supposed to cringe in terror and hide their children.
A neo-conservative is a evil, bad, fearsome, perhaps even felonious.
Strange how people kidnap a word, brainwash it, then release it back into the public domain with a new meaning.
The word “gay” comes to mind, or even “straight” for that matter.
“That fellow is happy and gay.”
Fifty or sixty years ago that meant only one thing.
Now if we say it, we always add “not that there’s anything wrong with it.”
Today we could say “that fellow is unhappy and gay” and there would be no contradiction.
But we couldn’t say “that fellow is straight and gay.” People hearing that would be confused and their heads might explode.
Now back to neo-conservative and the word neo.
Neo means new.
A neonate is a newborn. When compared with a neo-conservative, is a neonate an evil baby?
“That baby should be in the neo-natal unit.” (A place where they put bad babies.)
The on-line dictionary has another meaning for NEO. It’s a “Near Earth Object.” Not on the earth by the way, just near it.
I guess that means all we neo-conservatives are far out too.
I agree with DrD (third comment). Give me the hard-nosed economist over the toffee-nosed (def'n: snobbish; pretentiously superior) professor.
Posted by: Anne in swON at October 11, 2008 1:18 PMThe room's empty because all the whor....err...reporters and their pimp.....er.....editors are out hunting down the true facts on the Lieberals as a Thanksgiving present for us.Yeah. That's the ticket.
Posted by: Justthinkin at October 11, 2008 1:26 PMIt must have been painful for them to put out this headline: Ontario boosts Tory lead. Ouch!
Posted by: Joanne (T.B.) at October 11, 2008 1:29 PMThe comments and the agree/disagree votes for the editorial are (for now), running mostly against the Star's stance. But I've seen that change, as the Liberal partisans get into the voting near the end. So, login at thestar.com, and tilt the votes even more against this editorial.
Posted by: Calgary Junkie at October 11, 2008 1:29 PMI don't think the premise of Western Canadian separation is such a stretch. Compare the way Eastern Canada will vote in this upcoming election against how Western Canada will vote, and the difference is amazing.
So different in fact, I think it borders on the ridiculous that we are part of the same country.
It's clear that the East wants a different government than what the West wants. The only way we can both have our wish is to create two separate countries.
Come Tuesday, if it is a CPC minority, then a large portion of the east won't be happy, and if it is LPC minority, then a huge portion of the west will be incensed.
I don't want another minority government situation. The amount of fighting in the H of C during the last 2 1/2 years created an inefficiency in government that, although there were some achievements, prevented so so much more from being accomplished.
So let's get the movement to split Canada into two separate countries started.
As a Western Canadian, I want to put dibs on Harper. The East can have Bob Rae (after Dion's 3-strike interview, I don't know how anyone could keep him as a leader....I think he will be gone).
Toronto Star newsroom in SHAMBLES...Just Like the Liberal Party!
Posted by: HLH at October 11, 2008 1:45 PMThe Toronto Star is just like the Regina Leader Post. Who else would you expect them to support?
Liberals of course. Sad that we have such coverage all the time.
Wish I had a chance of what to read around here but then again I don't read their garbage.
Toronto Star is the ONLY centre of the universe newspaper to endorse Dion.
Globe and Mail, Sun and National Post have all endorsed Harper ... and all three papers did so before Dion's demonstration that he's unqualified for the job.
The big question voters have to ask themselves is which leader they'd like to represent Canada to the rest of the world.
A prime minister, not the ‘team' around him, is the one who has to think on his feet.
I don't know if the Red Star has endorsed the Liberal candidates in every election, but if there's one time when the weakness of this candidate is obvious, this is it.
And, I'm confident the average Ontario voter will be on the correct side of Canadian history come Tuesday ... if for no other reason than to show Dion the door.
Quebec can stew in their entitlement juices all they like. If they want to be on the outside looking in, that's their problem.
Declare independence, already. That way you can be responsible for funding your own societal parasites.
"They are hoping for the sympathy vote for the weak whimpering Dion." -- I am not so sure about this. I think if Dion got a weak minority (or even if he does surprisingly well), the Liberals would be in turmoil. They don't want this guy in power any more than the rest of us (at least any Liberals with common sense . . . and there have to be a few. If I were a liberal I would stay home on voting day -- and send in my $1.83 as a separate donation . . . maybe even bump it up to $5.00.
P.S. The Star endorsement is an embarrassment for them. It is a "the emperor has no clothes" endorsement and I don't even think they are fooling themselves.
Posted by: LindaL at October 11, 2008 2:03 PMPeople! Peuples!
Remember to keep your eyes on the prize!
#1. Bankrupt the Liberal Party with election campaigns they can't fund and keep it away from its patronage lifeline for as long as needed.
#2. Strive for the election of more Conservative MPs until a majority is reached, the NDP is the official opposition, and the few remaining Grits and Greens are vote splitting dead weight for the socialists to carry.
Yes!
Posted by: Sgt Lejaune at October 11, 2008 2:08 PMIf Harper doesn't get a majority in this time of financial meltdown then this country is doomed and as such I'm in favour of a western seperation movement. The first order of business is to inscibe in the new constitution that there will only be one common language for the good of the nation and that language will be English. All other languages may be spoken at the dinner table but the language of commerce and industry will be English. Any takers. Second order of busines is to appropriate either a) the Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton or b) Chateau Lake Louise in Banff, as the House of Parliament and install Harper as the first Prime Minister for a term to be determined by election.
Posted by: Antenor at October 11, 2008 2:09 PMI made the comment earlier on another post that i have red so many comments now since the start of the election. 1 that stands out in my memory banks and that is the one that the Commentator Said, "If Harper wins on Tuesday i hope there is a coalition Party formed consisting of Liberal/NDP/Green & Bloq" This was today & i believe it was in the Tarantaa Star(short Memory).
This is a scary scenario & i have said numerous times throughout this election that i whole hardily believe that there is one in the works, Liberal/NDP/Green we already know of the Lib/Grn coalition & besides there have been reports of Green Canidates dropping off the ballot & asking supporters to go to the Liberals.
I also have said it this ever happens then we might as well say goodbye to the Canada we know, I will also be Imigrating from Grey/Bruce/Owen Sound to the New Canada & we all Know i don't mean East.
bryanr:
You would be welcomed in Alberta.
Our economy, like Canada's, is strong.
We have a hard-working populace that is building a realistic economy and continues to look for workers.
Jackass Layton, when he was here, lamented that Alberta had to import foreign workers.
Even a marxist buffoon like that understands our economic fundmanentals are strong. Yet, instead of encouraging other Canadians to move west where the jobs are, Jackass Layton is content with stealing our money and handing it out to those unwilling to move across the country.
My parents came to Canada from Eastern Europe to seek a better life.
If Layton's constituency cannot do the same within this country, to move where well-paying jobs promise a good life for them and their families, then we see what he's really all about.
Once again, bud, you'd be welcome out west. Saskatchewan would also be a good option.
Get away from the toxic environment you live in. You'd love the honesty of western Canadians.
Posted by: set you free at October 11, 2008 2:25 PM"I can't recall another candidate who whines and figuratively stamps his feet every time something goes wrong."
When I think of Dion I think of the guy in the toilet in Jurassic Park that got eaten by the T-Rex. I think he originally played "Iggy" as a recurring character in the Miami Vice tv series.
His big line: "I think this is the tip of the ice cube."
Posted by: Hannibal Lectern at October 11, 2008 2:29 PMIf the west is leaving can you take rural Ontario with ya? We vote the same as Western Canada but are stuck with loonie leftard Toronto running us.....will you save us? You should try living under the MacGuinty regime........they want to turn the whole damn province's farm land into a park or playground.
Posted by: The Glengarrian at October 11, 2008 3:17 PMKate, the real fun is over at the Mop and Pail in the comments on their Harper endorsment.
Apparently the G&M is a right wing propaganda tool. Did you all know this and not let me in on it?
1100 plus comments and counting. Some very unhappy entitlers (new word?) over there.
Posted by: AtlanticJim at October 11, 2008 3:21 PMAnd I forgot, Antenor, The Glengarrian and the rest of the traitorous scum, feel free to leave my country, but you do not get to take it with you.
Posted by: AtlanticJim at October 11, 2008 3:23 PMhere is an interesting article from Canada.com
"Dion Economy will slow Pace of His Platform"
Orillia,On. Oct 11/08
*Because of the Economy the Plan could be delayed to the 3rd year of the 4yr plan.
Stephane Dion
*"Today Mr Dion said he may not actually do anything he promised in his Platform, Not Healthcare, Not Childcare, Not anything else for years. But he is going to do the Carbon Tax Now No Matter What"
Stephen Harper Oct. 11/08
**"In the middle of this election, with 4days to go, vote with your heart, Vote for the party which you believe in. After the election, Who knows what strategically may happen, Especially if Harper gets back In"
Valerie Powell Green candidate North Simcoe
oct 11/08
Mmmmm Has a Secret coalition Plan been inadvertly leaked by Ms Powell?
Powell was commenting on some comments Dion made of May & if things are close it would be better to Vote Liberal.
But he really hopes May defeats MacKay, no he does'nt, Yes he does, No, Yes, No, Oh how do you say in Englais, Can we start Over?.
Posted by: bryanr at October 11, 2008 3:34 PMA well balanced and reasoned summation of the choices, though they missed that he is a plagiarist who doesn't actually love his kids.
Yes, we can choose between a Prime Minister who has dealt with a crisis through a backstabbing political campaign, or we can choose a party leader who asks, "when do you want me to be Prime Minister again?"
All kidding aside, I thought the comments are the most interesting part of the piece.
Posted by: Shamrock at October 11, 2008 3:35 PMI just left a comment(if they allow it)on the G&M challenging all of those that have chastized the G&M in their endorsement of Stephen Harper to get over to the Toronto Star & say the same thing to the Star for their endorsement of Stephane Dion, Think that will Happen? Not!
Posted by: Bryanr at October 11, 2008 4:02 PMSpontaneous Deafness in English Disorder (SDED)
Scientists are baffled at this insidious disease,
which has so far only inflicted a single person on the planet.
Dr. Hans Folkkkensongenson, of the Finnish hearing institute, was asked to explain how a person could hear every word one moment (and every previous moment) and then suddenly lose almost all of their hearing to the extent that a man sitting right next to another, in a sound proof booth no less, would suddenly be inaudible.
Dr: Are you people nuts?
Well there you have it folks, another scientific mystery left unsolved.
Posted by: kody at October 11, 2008 4:07 PMIn other news, in response to reports that Dion looked like a geek in the hockey photo-op where he needed nearly 25 attempts at a one-on-none to score a goal,
he was reportedly seen grabbing a nearby wheelchair and faining Multiple Sclerosis.
“How dare you attack the disabled” his campaign taunted Harper.
The media immediately jumped on Harper’s insensitivity as “cold beyond belief”.
Sorry I should explain my prior post, Most Comments on the G&M are critiquing the G&M for even endorsing anyone, most are saying they are a newspaper & have no right to.
IMO: their just pissed because they(G&M) said Harper & Not Dion.
Even tho the Toronto Sun has endoresed CPC, Michel Den Tendt felt compelled to write this outrageous column... without quoting anything said by PMSH or any CPC members.
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/editorial/2008/10/11/7051011-sun.html
Beyond media bias Den Tendt is into media
manipulation.
Duffy, Harper and ATV getting dissed.
When does Dion become responsible for his own behaviour?
And Cretin callng Harper mean!! Time to show the pix of the guy he grabbed by the neck!
further to Kody at 4:09...trumpeting your victimhood is what this country is all about, that's why so many of the self styled victims in this country (some 20-25% of the population) will vote for poor Stephane, a victim of his own wussiness. while stephen harper, although being the best person for the job will have to settle for a minority, because all the victims out there just don't want a meanypants to win.
Posted by: bdogginit at October 11, 2008 4:31 PMHoney Pot said: "...large plate of steaming baby kittens at Thanksgiving dinner..."
LOL seeing as the Harper's ostensibly favour cats, but then we are at "Small Dead Animals"!
The small dead animal usually served is turkey, LIEberally flavored with spices, decorated with GREENS, making for a festive New Democratic Party.
All served with CONSERVATIVEly chilled wine and bubbly!
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Uh oh G&M is all over the New Flip/Flop of the Absent Minded Professor, the comments are building against Dion.
Posted by: bryanr at October 11, 2008 4:41 PMIf they try to form a lefty coalition, then you will see the stock market and the dollar crash to new lows (of course the Star will blame Harper ).
Posted by: stephen.reeves at October 11, 2008 5:37 PMConservatives are our best bet in troubled times -Montreal Gazette
You won't see that too often in a lifetime
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=842b61df-7004-4cfb-9f61-513309031805
By the way, just who is funding the broker than broke lieberal party of Canada? How can this bunch of victims, carry on when they have not even paid off their last election debts. Could there have been big cheques in those briefing notes of Stepahanies coming from a certian Quebec family business. The prospect of not being able to use Canada as their personal pay pal as they have with the last 6 prime ministers must drive tham nuts. Keep on doing your masters bidding Toronto Star, your opinion is equal to that of Paul Bernardos on women.
Posted by: bartinsky at October 11, 2008 6:27 PMThe Toronto Star is part of a dying media form. And what about those piles of discarded newsprint that kill the little birdies and pollute the environmnt? Now I don't want dead bluejays on my deck!
Posted by: Realistik at October 11, 2008 6:28 PMThis will be the result of a Dion or Layton polity. Nothing but a foul mess. They don't have to stick there heads in the sand at the Red Star, they just have to sit amounst there own filth to avoid reality. They can't see over there own paper fortress or towing heaps of garbage.
It denotes this picture, the whole approach of liberals & their minions in the media.
Posted by: Revnant Dream at October 11, 2008 6:54 PMDion offers this for your consideration:
By taxing non-productive, pollution-heavy activities while at the same time cutting personal and corporate income taxes, Canada will create jobs and stimulate growth, Dion argued.
The Green shift shifts gears and becomes about productivity and pollution. Go figure.
Syncro
Posted by: syncrodox at October 11, 2008 7:07 PMWell, WAS (Wot A Surpise).
NOT (Not Only Toronto) ... what is going on with this idiot Premier of Newlyfoundrichesland?
You know, the forgettable Wotsisname. The shame that will not speak its name.
What does he hope to achieve for Newfoundrichesland, itsw people, and himself, by campaigning in a federal election? This is a no-no; and, I think, we will soon find out why.
Williams is an egotistical fool, and he his putting all interests, even his own, below his own ego needs.
I think, simply, that money and power has gone to his head; he is the Canuck Chavez; when will he start "nationalizing", read stealing, peoples private property?
Syncro,
I spotted that too. Why would it even be necessary to tax unproductive uses of CO2? If they were unproductive, people wouldn't do them.
Now, if he really meant productive uses of CO2, such as, oh, let's see, ermm... cement manufacture, electricity generation, farming, jogging.
He wants to tax these activities?
I look forward to the Jogger tax; these people deserve to be rundown anyway.
Kevin @ 1204
If you want to vote illegally and or multiple times for Obama in the US election, just phone ACORN, they will sign you up
But I don't want to vote for the Ubermessiah, ever, even once. He will rapidly descend to the Worst POTUS Ever, WPOTUSE.
Posted by: RW at October 11, 2008 7:48 PMRW
Don't be so hard. The joggers who run through the park at my place make perfect targets for the three wood and a pail of balls.
Whether or not theirs or mine co2 production is productive is of minor consequence. What's really important is perception.....depth perception.
Syncro
Posted by: syncrodox at October 11, 2008 8:14 PMI went through as many of those thousand-plus comments at the G&M as I could stomache. There was one by "Ottawa Valley" which caught my attention:
"Dear Globe and Mail, I wish you had picked Stephane Dion and the Liberals. His is the kind of leadership we need now."
I assumed it was meant sarcastically; and then after a pause, I wondered. This election campaign has become so bizzare; could the person have been serious?
In either case, facetious or 'serious', it cuts through all the bull, and the real ballot-question is: "IS his kind of leadership the kind we DO need now?"
Posted by: donny n. at October 11, 2008 8:36 PMI guess there are some in my neighbourhood who believe the Star (idiots!).
Our Conservative sign, attached to our fence, was removed, in broad daylight. It was there when I left this morning and gone on my return many hours later. I've asked for a bigger one, to display even more prominently.
The removal and defacement of election signs--a legal offence--now seems to be epidemic. (It wasn't, even five years ago.) No wonder. As I've said many times before, we're not bringing up citizens in this country anymore, but coddling spoiled brats, who behave like perpetual toddlers.
Stupid us--especially if we don't give the CPC a majority. Democracy becomes scary when the MSM are corrupt and the people immature, uninformed, impressionable, and intellectually and morally lazy.
(I highly recommend Bruce Bawer's fine book, "While Europe Slept". It outlines perfectly the moral and intellectual turpitude of Canada: whenever he mentions the appeasement and dhimmitude of the EU or any individual European country, one may just insert the words “Canada” or “Canadian”.)
Stepping back a step; let's think.
I was really concerned earlier opn about teh ABC campaign that would inevitably have arisen, had Harper beeen cruising to a majority.
The ABC movement is now dead. People now want salvation. This a lot due to teh ABCers preaching doomen-und-gloomen. It was a sly, unspoken, "vote for us or you will die" approach.
It appears the "doomen-und-gloomen" spiel has made people lean to the safe option. On top of that, Dion has reminded everuone else in Canada whyu they do not want a Frenchman as PM. (Note: Not a Franco-Canadian or Quebecer, but a Frenchman) who is a Parisian trained sociology professor.
Posted by: RW at October 11, 2008 8:55 PMOur Conservative sign, attached to our fence, was removed
Posted by: lookout at October 11, 2008 8:49 PM
Yeah, pretty pathetic. My conservative sign was missing from my lawn this morning too.
Posted by: CJ at October 11, 2008 8:58 PMI am Sign Guy for Ottawa-Vanier.
When a sign is removed, replace it. If this happens three tims, take action.
I don't know...
Here's Layton running a campaign promising "workers" that if he's elected, he will guarantee they will keep on collecting $28 per hour (in Ontario), making gas-guzzlers nobody will buy , and that he will nationalize the oil companies so union workers will keep all the profits. And he gets 20% support?
Lizzy promises she will ensure her god, Suzuki, will receive canonization and that only her party can end the earth's pollution. And she gets about 10% support?
Dion says only he has the brains to run this country because he has a French sociology PHD, as if that makes him somehow superior. But then he retains his French citizenship, in case he has to skip the country in the dead of night should he screw up as PM. And he gets about 27% support?
Stephen Harper has trouble maintaining a slim lead in the polls, despite leading Canada to the top rating among the G8 countries in financially troubled times unlike any in recent history?
If the CPC doesn't get a strong majority, this country is truly in the toilet. It's voters are outright morons.
Posted by: Alienated at October 11, 2008 9:27 PMHere’s what Elizabeth May has to say about strategic voting;
“Strategic voting makes no sense, says May
On Tuesday, Canada needs to elect Green Party MPs, leader Elizabeth May said today.
“Media reports and suggestions from other parties that I am urging strategic voting across the country or that backroom deals are being made are complete nonsense,” Ms. May said. “As I have said over and over, strategic voting is generally not a sound strategy at all and I do not support it. Canada needs to elect Green MPs.“
Ms. May was responding in particular to the headline and opening of a Globe and Mail story that directly contradicts what she said to the reporter.
“I clearly said that voting strategically as advice is pretty useless. I also said: ‘Suggesting one should jump away from the Green Party is very bad advice indeed.’
“We have a strong team of candidates across Canada. Every one of them is working hard to win and this much we know for sure: Canada needs Green MPs. I intend to win in my riding of Central Nova and I want to be joined by a strong caucus of MPs, like Adriane Carr in Vancouver Centre, Blair Wilson, Mike Nagy, Dick Hibma, John Fryer, Huguette Allen and others. We are running strong campaigns across this country.
“The best outcome of the election will be the defeat of the Harper government and the election of as many Green MPs as possible.”
Ms. May noted that support for her leadership, and the Green Party and its forward-looking policies continue to rise.
“Perhaps what is worrying the other parties is the strong support the Green Party has received from Canadians in this election. In this election we will elect our first MPs.
“I want to do politics in a much different way, with collaboration, civility and respect. But I am not making deals with other parties, and the Greens are not in discussions with other parties.
“I will say it once again so absolutely no one can be confused or misled: I want Canadians to elect Green MPs.””
Over at the Macleans blog Paul Wells is encouraging people to check out VoteForTheEnvironment.ca, a strategic voting website set up by?
Posted by: Bruce at October 11, 2008 9:28 PMElizabeth May also said she concurred that Canadians are stupid.
Then she said she never said what she said.
Maybe she thinks she's Yogi Green Berra, but her catcher's mask hasn't kept her foot out of her mouth.
Here's the link to the Paul Wells Blog in question;
http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/10/11/lets-see-what-our-celebrity-judges-make-of-this-shall-we/
Posted by: Bruce at October 11, 2008 9:37 PMAfter going threw all the news today plus the Blogs, it looks depressing. Obama & Peloski are already conniving with the Senate to change America fundementaly. This financhial crisis is just the trojan horse for there takeover by Hard Marxists. If Obama & Dion get in all I can see is a Second American revolution happening.
All I can say to Westerners is, were in for the long night with thunder. Think I overstate this?
Look into the future from what Marks Steyn see’s coming, & apply it to the split in this Nation culturally.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/obama-hear-mccain-2191555-big-don
RE: the TorSTARweb.cam.
What an eye sore that work environment is.
The mess matches what's produced from this heap. Don't know of many other 'professional' work environments that sloppy.
But when you work without regulations or ethics guess the little stuff just slips on by more and more, eh?
Let us see now.
In the later middle of the nineteenth century growing up in the communist ruled socialist country of central Europe, the reference to the Toronto Star was, as being press organ of communists in Canada.
Of course not having any other source of information that was what it was.
Later, in this country, working with people from all over in the Calgary engineering business, there were people in the late part of the nineteenth century coming from Soviet Union at the time calling the general ether in Toronto as being fascist. Could not believe it though that was what it was.
Tried to explain that, that was the communist propaganda in the SU at the time. It was very hard to persuade this particular person that there, really are no fascist in Toronto though there are socialists that practically run the place, not that there is any remarkable difference between the two.
Been thinking lately, which is always a dangerous activity.
Someone said that the French citizen Dion is kind and such. It is doubtful the French citizen knows what he is.
The French citizen seems at times as though his thoughts are leaving him before he can use them.
What is the popularity of the socialist press organ of the Toronto? It seem to be popular with the rich socialist upper crust and the entitled immigrants.
Is it popular with the people that get up every morning of the week and go to work to make a decent living and pay confiscatory taxes?
Revnant Dream at October 11, 2008 10:00 PM
You, Sir hit the nail on the head.
Of most significance is the third sentence. Unlikely as though it may sound to uninformed, that is the current project.
WaPo had an article in the sense that this is the end of American capitalism, that it did itself in.
Not true, this was designed by the democrats (really rich socialists at this stage in history).
When the republicans wanted to do something about the two mortgage companies that started the tsunami, not one democrat agreed http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28973.
There is no question about that; it is a clear statement that can not be misconstrued as being something else.
When a sign is removed, replace it. If this happens three tims, take action.
Posted by: RW at October 11, 2008 9:06 PM
Didn't get a chance to today, but I do intend to visit my local constituency office on Sunday to replace the sign.
Posted by: CJ at October 11, 2008 11:18 PMIf the financial meltdown asteroid continues apace, then the impact may be the demise of The Star, irrespective of Dion's fate.
Ironic, that.
Posted by: john at October 12, 2008 12:04 AMWhat surprises me is that ONLY 50 people replied on the torstar story. How many people read that rag anyhow.?
Rank Newspaper Weekly Circulation [1]
1 Toronto Star 3,260,621
2 The Globe and Mail 2,024,320
3 Le Journal de Montréal 1,921,652
4 La Presse (Montreal) 1,524,582
5 Toronto Sun 1,358,292
6 National Post 1,236,020
7 Vancouver Sun 1,030,691
8 The Gazette (Montreal) 974,021
9 Ottawa Citizen 919,931
10 Winnipeg Free Press 885,986