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Tuesday, March 6

The ties that bind: Conservatives and the ADQ

by DavidAkin on Tue 06 Mar 2007 07:56 AM EST

Canadian Press reporter Alex Panetta does a nice job sketching out the links between the federal Conservative Party and the Action démocratique du Québec .

[Philippe] Gervais was the Tories' deputy campaign manager in 2006, helped run [ADQ Leader Mario] Dumont's tour in 2003 and served a similar function with ... more »

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NDP distances itself from Blogging Dipper leader

by DavidAkin on Tue 06 Mar 2007 12:22 AM EST

Who says the blogosophere doesn’t matter?

The president of the NDP, Anne McGrath, wrote a letter today to the president of the Canadian Jewish Congress in which the NDP disavowed any connection to blogger Robert McClelland, a frequent commenter at this blog and one of the organizers of the ... more »

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