There was a subtle but significant shift in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's stump speech in Oakville, Ont. tonight, a sign, his advisors say, that the Conservative campaign is trying to prepare the Canadian electorate to choose a majority Conservative government.
His campaign staff are not, I should be clear, not ... more »
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Tuesday, September 16
Go head and say it, Prime Minster: You want a majority
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DavidAkin
on Tue 16 Sep 2008 09:08 PM EDT
Monday, September 15
Harper in London: Not quite like 2006
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DavidAkin
on Mon 15 Sep 2008 09:43 PM EDT
The Harper rally in London, Ont. Monday night drew the biggest crowd yet for the Conservatives during this still-young campaign. By my count -- and I do actually count -- there were about 800 people in a downtown conference centre to hear Harper give what has become a pretty standard ... more »
Harper v. Layton
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DavidAkin
on Mon 15 Sep 2008 04:37 PM EDT
On Sunday afternoon, a senior Conservative campaign advisor briefing reporters about the week ahead. Among other things, the advisor said that the focus of the Conservative campaign would shift and would include more attacks on the BQ, the Green Party and the NDP.
The NDP, for its part, spent all ... more »
Harper and immigrants
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DavidAkin
on Mon 15 Sep 2008 02:22 PM EDT
Ever since Stephen Harper assumed the leadership of the Conservative Party,it's been hismission to weaken what has traditionally been the power base for the Liberals in Canada's biggest cities, namely, immigrant communities. Early on, Harper tapped Jason Kenney to be in charge of outreach to Canada's New Canadians. Today, asked ... more »
Sunday, September 14
Party Standings in Central Canada
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DavidAkin
on Sun 14 Sep 2008 10:49 PM EDT
If it were still just Lower Canada and Upper Canada in Confederation, we'd be in a minority Liberal government right now.
Stephen Harper leads his campaign into Quebec and Ontario for the next week so let's review party standings there at dissolution, if we were just counting those two provinces:... more »
Twitter and Election 2008: I'm being followed by AntiHarperBias!
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DavidAkin
on Sun 14 Sep 2008 07:57 PM EDT
You've heard of Twitter, right?
Twitter is all the rage among the political class in the U.S.. It's a little less popular here. Still, politicians and others are fiddling with Twitter. With Twitter, you sign up and then choose some friends, notable, or political journalists (more on that ... more »
First MP of the 40th Parliament elected!
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DavidAkin
on Sun 14 Sep 2008 08:29 AM EDT
The Calgary Herald reports that LaVar Payne has won the nomination to carry the Conservative flag in Monte Solberg's southern Alberta riding so, with that fight complete, I'd say we could pretty much swear him in as an MP in the 40th Parliament right now. Saturday, September 13
A pollster just called ...
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DavidAkin
on Sat 13 Sep 2008 03:43 PM EDT
I just got a call this afternoon at home from one of the pollsters mentioned below and here's what I was asked (I'm paraphrasing the questions) and in the order I was asked: - What's the number one issue facing Canada today?... So here's the latest polls: Ipsos Reid, which provides polls exclusively to Canwest News Service has: CONS 38 / LIBS 29 / NDP 13 / GRE 11, BQ 8 "Stephen Harper's Tories have a commanding lead over Stéphane Dion's Liberals nationally, but the Conservatives' failure to secure first place in the key electoral battlegrounds of Ontario and Quebec could stop them from winning a majority government.." more »
10 Races to care about in Vancouver
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DavidAkin
on Sat 13 Sep 2008 08:38 AM EDT
News to me, bound as I was to my desk in our Ottawa newsroom this week, was that Liberal MP Don Bell, running for re-election in North Vancouver, suffered a mild heart attack at the beginning of the campaign... 10 RACES TO CARE ABOUTThe Vancouver Sun13 Sep 2008A dozen or so battleground ridings in Metro Vancouver could determine whether Stephen Harper’s Conservatives form a majority government. more »Friday, September 12
22 Minutes' Geri Hall gets handcuffed for having a crush on Harper!
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DavidAkin
on Fri 12 Sep 2008 01:20 PM EDT
 Is it the sweater vests, the carefully coiffed dome of hair? Or is it just the power that comes with being prime minister? Apparently single women voters can’t contain themselves around Stephen Harper . . . more »
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