Driving The Porcelain Bus

Political views and news from a Canadian social-democratic perspective.

Wednesday, 8 July 2015

NDP Clearest Alternative, Globe & Mail Is Loathe To Admit

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The G&M must be loathe to report stories like this . But the NDP are so much in the lead and seen as the party of clear change, that t...
Thursday, 25 June 2015

NDP Now Has A Stable Lead And Is In Minority Government Territory

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3 new polls were released today ( Environics , Forum , Ipsos Reid ), all confirming that the NDP has a stable and comfortable lead over t...
Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Question The Nature Of Your Orders - new Facebook page.

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New Facebook Page. Instead of continuing to fill up my personal Facebook page with political posts, I've created a new paged called Que...
Friday, 5 June 2015

A Sleeping Ontario Awakens

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EKOS has released a 2nd poll that puts the NDP in the lead in the past couple of weeks. This solidifies things more, showing that it is no...
Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Excuse me Ipsos, do you know how to count? NDP doing quite well in the West, thank you.

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Today, Ipsos came out with this headline: Orange Crush is East, Not West: Federal Parties All Tied Up as Quebec Buoys NDP (30%) to Statist...
Sunday, 31 May 2015

Who Cares About The Youth Vote? Certainly Not The Corporate Media.

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Regarding this article in the Globe & Mail: Dear Young People: Not Voting? No One Cares . Politicians need to take a chance and talk to...
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Friday, 15 May 2015

NDP Support Pre-election 2011 Compared to 2015

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Here is an interesting comparison between the NDP support 8-5 months before the election in 2011 compared to the same period now in 2015. ...
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Sunday, 24 November 2013

No One To Blame For Rob Ford But The Media And Ignorance

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This article in the Toronto Star points to the voters as those solely to blame for Rob Ford being elected. I disagree. The voters are par...
Saturday, 23 November 2013

Disecting Ford Nation - Part Three - Nov. 20, 2013

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Crack smoking admission, "rage/murder threats" video, oral sex comment, international embarrassment, bullying and immature behav...
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Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Rob Ford - Another Day, Another Apology

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After a long and eventful day at City Council, wherein Ford had his power even further reduced, Rob and Doug Ford sat down for an interview ...
Saturday, 9 November 2013

Toronto Centre By-election: Could Be A Tight Race With Support For Linda McQuaig, NDP, Rising

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In the latest poll, Liberal candidate Crystia Freeland leads with 46% support, and the NDP candidate Linda McQuaig is second with 35% suppor...
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Disecting Ford Nation - Part Two - Nov. 6, 2013

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Even though we now have the revelation that there was a video of Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack, and now that Ford had admitted that ...
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Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Disecting Ford Nation - Part One - Recent Numbers

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Even though we now have the revelation that there was a video of Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack, and now that Ford had admitted that h...
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Thursday, 31 October 2013

Latest Ipsos-Reid Poll Shows NDP Rising At The Expense of The Liberals

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Ipsos Reid just released new federal poll numbers . Their latest poll was conducted between Oct. 25 and 28, 2013. Their previous poll cover...
Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Canadian Support For Abolishing The Senate Is Gaining Ground - UPDATED

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UPDATE I just got the EKOS poll results from Oct. 29, 2013 These poll results show an even stronger support for Senate abolition 53.8% o...
Monday, 21 October 2013

Thomas Mulcair speaks to the CUPE 50th Anniversary National Convention

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http://new.livestream.com/cupescfp/convention-2013/videos/32856759
Sunday, 15 September 2013

Linda McQuaig Is The NDP Candidate for Toronto-Centre

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Congratulations to Linda McQuaig who won the NDP nomination today to be their candidate for the upcoming Toronto-Centre federal riding. ht...
Wednesday, 22 May 2013

The Harper Government's War On Science - an excellent chronology

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From Science Blogs - The Canadian War On Science: A Long Unexaggerated, Devastating Chronological Indictment by John Dupuis. Excerpt: Th...
Wednesday, 15 May 2013

BC - NDP Lose The Election, But The Liberals Lose Their Leader

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Christy Clark may have led her party to a stunning upset against all predictions, but she lost her own seat to the NDP's David Eby. El...
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Friday, 3 May 2013

Ontario NDP Want To Hear From You On The Budget

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The Ontario NDP would like to hear your feedback on the budget before deciding on supporting it or not. The Liberals sort of supported the N...
Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Ontario Liberals On The Verge of Forcing An Election

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To make a minority government work, the party in power needs the support of enough members of parliament to pass confidence-vote legislatio...
Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Rob Ford Attempts To Keep Toronto From Having Input On Transit Funding

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Rob Ford and his council lackeys want to differ discussing transit funding until AFTER Metrolinx' deadline to agree on what they will pr...
Tuesday, 9 April 2013

People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say

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People Aren't Smart Enough For Democracy To Flourish, Scientists Say This article touches on a core problem for democracy. But add to ...
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Thursday, 28 March 2013

ON NDP Stance on Funding for Public Transit

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The other day, Martin Regg Cohn wrote a horribly twisted pi ece of anti-NDP propaganda in the Toronto Star.  Andrea Horwath and the ON...
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Thursday, 31 January 2013

Three Tory Nutters Escape

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http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/01/31/three_tory_mps_ask_rcmp_to_investigate_some_abortions_as_homicides.html What can I say? How ...
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Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Mayor Rob Ford Countdown Clock

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Instead of checking the news to see when the exact time and date of Rob Ford's removal from office is, just bookmark the Mayor Rob Ford...
Monday, 19 November 2012

Israel-Gaza conflict - Summary of Cease Fire Demands

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Summary of demands: Which seem more reasonable? By Israel: - No fighting (well, you can't attack us, but we can attack you) - We ...
Friday, 28 September 2012

Ontario NDP virtually tied with PCs

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A new Forum Research  Ontario tracking poll is out. The results show the NDP and PCs in a virtual tie, with the Liberal support continuing ...
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Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Conservatives and Their Media

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Earlier today a friend and I were discussing how the Conservatives get away with telling lies all the time. My answer was this: The C...
Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Poll Predicts A Comfortable Win For The NDP's Catherine Fife In Kitchener-Waterloo

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In a Forum Research poll , conducted Tues. Sept. 4, 2012, support for the NDP was at 42%, while the Liberal and Conservative support had dr...
Saturday, 25 August 2012

A BBQ That Rob Ford Won't Enjoy

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Mayor Rob Ford to face public Clayton Ruby cross-examination in conflict case "Mayor Rob Ford has been forced to testify in open ...
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