Driving The Porcelain Bus

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

Tuesday, 14 August 2012

Mayor Rob Ford caught reading while driving

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Mayor Rob Ford caught reading while driving Listen (click the link) to Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admit to reading while driving. This morni...
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Thursday, 12 July 2012

The Oil Industry and Pipelines - What the NDP has been saying all along

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Calgary Herald: NDP Leader Mulcair says oilsands access should be opened up, but not with new pipeline Yes. A better/cleaner/safer plan a...
Sunday, 17 June 2012

NDP Rise To 37%, Conservatives Drop To 30%

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Since Tom Mulcair was chosen to lead the party back in March, the NDP has maintained a strong support across Canada, which has continued to ...
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Saturday, 16 June 2012

Andrea Horwath Asks McGuinty And Hudak To Meet To Work On The Budget This Weekend

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You would think that the premier would do this if he was really interested in making things work and doing his job. This shows that Andrea i...

Dean Del Mastro - The Hits Keep On Coming

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Dean Del Mastro is Harper's Parliamentary Secretary. He is also the point man for the Cons in dealing with the election fraud scandal. H...
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Ontario Budget Attempts to Privatize Public Transit and other Public Services

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From TTC Riders site: Just as we savour our victory in winning back four Light Rail Transit lines for Toronto, an even greater threat is ...

Andrea Horwath's Message To The Premier - Video

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Watch the video here: http://ontariondp.com/en/horwath-to-premier-stop-election-threats-and-pass-budget Queen’s Park - New Democrat Lead...
Friday, 15 June 2012

Fact Check On The Ontario Budget Agreements Between The NDP and the Liberals

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Premier Dalton McGuinty has been saying that Andrea Horwath and the NDP have reneged on a deal. This is completely false. QUEEN’S PARK — ...
Thursday, 14 June 2012

Olivia Chow's Budget Speech

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http://www.oliviachow.ca/2012/06/budget-bill-read-olivias-speech/ The Conservatives are pushing their Trojan Horse budget bill through ...

Statement by NDP Leader Andrea Horwath on the 2012 Budget

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http://ontariondp.com/en/statement-by-ndp-leader-andrea-horwath-on-the-2012-budget “Every day since the election, I’ve worked hard to make...

What a lot of people think of Stephen Harper right now

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This picture from the This Is Not My Government Facebook Page, is currently going viral on Facebook (at least). Considering the histo...
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Monday, 11 June 2012

Opposition Reacts To Speaker's Ruling On Budget Bill

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Opposition Reacts To Speaker's Ruling On Budget Bill Earlier today from Nathan Cullen, NDP House Leader: (from MaCle...
Sunday, 10 June 2012

Doug Ford + foot + mouth - brain =

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Today on the Rob and Doug show. Doug Ford (speaking to Rob): “They’re so many great teams, I wouldn’t want to pick one over the other. I g...
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Conservatives Opening A Door To The Spreading of Hatred In Canada

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Bill C-304: Hate Speech Clause's Repeal Gives White Supremacists Rare Moment Of Glee White Supremacists might be happy about this, bu...
Monday, 28 May 2012

Federal NDP Continue To Edge Towards A Majority Government

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The latest Forum Research poll ( Forum Research results , National Post story ) shows the NDP in the lead nationally, in Quebec, Atlantic ...
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Sunday, 27 May 2012

Facebook Blocks Blogspot.ca

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Facebook has blocked blogspot.ca. This means anyone with a blog on Blogger in Canada can't post their links to Facebook. I've writte...
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Friday, 11 May 2012

Going To The Wall In Defense Of Mulcair

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Great post by Erin Weir - The Progressive Economics Forum: "Mulcair has articulated a balanced approach to resource development that...

Conservative Support Among Older Canadians Plummets. NDP Leads Now By A Wide Margin

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CARP, (Canadian Association of Retired Persons), has released their latest poll regarding federal politics. For the first time in years, a ...
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Thursday, 10 May 2012

Oh Noes! The Grope & Fail To Become A Pay Site

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Over the past few years the news reporting and columns in the G&M have really gone down hill, IMHO. I used to read a lot of the G&M...

NDP Lead Over The Conservatives Growing

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The last 3 federal polls show the NDP consistently in the lead, ahead of the Conservatives (1 Forum and 2 Harris-Decima polls). The latest ...
Wednesday, 2 May 2012

NDP MP Bruce Hyer Quits and Then Wants Back In

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Okay, wouldn't it have made sense for Hyer to discuss his concerns with Mulcair BEFORE taking an extreme action that he now obviously r...
Saturday, 28 April 2012

Rob Ford Could Be Removed From Office In Early September

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Mark Sept. 5, 6 and 7 on your calendars. That is when Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will be in court regarding his breach of a conflict of interest...
Friday, 27 April 2012

Tom Mulcair And NDP In The Lead, Confidence In Harper Plummets

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Two polls were released today: Forum (April 25 - sample of 1744), and Nanos (April 18 - sample of 1200). The Forum poll, having a much large...
Thursday, 26 April 2012

Federal NDP On The Rise In Vote-Rich Ontario

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ThreeHundredEight.com: Massive NDP leads in Quebec, Ontario competitive : Two federal polls conducted recently in Quebec by Forum Research ...
Thursday, 19 April 2012

Ontario NDP Overtake Liberals, Horwath Riding High

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The latest Forum Research poll has the Ontario NDP overtaking the Liberals in support and Andrea Horwath continuing to be, by far, the most ...

kirbycairo: Why I don't Believe in a Merger. . . . .

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kirbycairo: Why I don't Believe in a Merger. . . . . : I don't think I am naive. Nor am I ignorant of contemporary or historical pol...
Friday, 13 April 2012

Smack Stephen Harper

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Frustrated with Harper and his government of looters in suits lying to us and taking our money to spend on jets that don't work and jai...
Thursday, 12 April 2012

Rob Ford Is Doing Bad, Bad Things

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Centa says the questions of whether Ford improperly took funding from his family company and overspent his campaign limit are important to ...
Tuesday, 10 April 2012

New NDP Ad Released

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See the ad here : Toronto Star: New NDP TV ad emphasizes continuity over change “Throughout his public life, Tom Mulcair has a proven tra...
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Saturday, 7 April 2012

4th Poll In A Month Has NDP Tied With Conservatives

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A Léger Marketing poll for The Gazette and Le Devoir April 2-4 shows the following support among decided voters: NDP 33% Conservatives 32%...
Thursday, 5 April 2012

3 Polls Affirm NDP Tied With Conservatives

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The other day I wrote about 2 polls that showed the NDP tied with Conservatives for support. A third poll with more recent data affirms thi...
Tuesday, 3 April 2012

NDP Tied With Conservatives, And, Mulcair Doing Well

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Two poll results from March (early March and then just after Mulcair won the leadership of the NDP), by Environics in early March and by Fo...
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