Canadian Federal Election: Seat Projections April 22 and recent polls.
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-07-27 00:04:55 -0700 | political-news
These are seat projections from a Wilred Laurier University project at this site. The projections were released on April 22nd but on polls from April 18-20. The numbers in parentheses are the results the party received at the last election...
Puzzled pussies and a treadmill
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-07-27 00:05:00 -0700 | funny-news
The appended video was posted on You Tube last August. Two cats are trying to figure out what the new device is that their owners brought home. The cats takes turns giving the moving belt on the treadmill exploratory pokes...
Canada: Stephen Harper's tactics to gain a majority
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-07-27 00:07:56 -0700 | political-news
One would think that the last week or so of the Canadian federal election campaign that candidates would be busy trying to convince the electorate that they had the best policy platform. However Stephen Harper seems determined to claim that...
Canadian Election: New Democratic Party surging in polls especially in Quebec
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-07-27 00:10:04 -0700 | political-news
There has not been any obvious trend in polls through most of the federal election campaign but now the third largest party the New Democratic Party seems to be enjoying what appears to be a surge in several very recent...
Canadian Federal Election
Posted by: northsunm32
Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-07-26 04:39:55 -0700 | political-news
As well as major parties ther are many small parties taking part in the election. Many just run a very few candidates. The major parties are the Conservatives, Liberals, New Democratic Party, the Bloc Quebecois and the Green Party. Although...
Canadian Federal Elections: Liberals misquote Conservative leader and then hold contest!
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-11-01 23:44:12 -0700 | political-news
An ad by the Liberals, the main opposition party, quotes the Prime Minister as saying:"it's past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act," when he was working for the National Citizens' Coalition (NCC) many years ago. It turns out...
Canada: No big swings in polls or seat projections
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-07-26 04:44:35 -0700 | political-news
At the very most there is a miniscule trend down by the Conservatives and some move up by the NDP but little movement by Liberals. See the rolling average at this CBC link. But overall there seems to be no...
Canada: Prairie Floods worst in 150 years in some areas
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-07-26 04:45:36 -0700 | disasters-news
Rising waters have forced more than 700 people in Manitoba to head to higher ground. Sandbagging has been able to save some homes from flooding but the Red River Crest is not expected until around the end of this month....
Canadian Federal Election: Recent polls and seat projections
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-07-26 04:48:19 -0700 | political-news
Here are the results of two recent polls from April 12th showing percentage of vote for each party. The Ekos polls presented a list of parties to chose from the Nanos poll simply asked what party people would vote for....
Donald Trump: US can make a fortune from Iraq Oil
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-07-26 04:48:55 -0700 | political-news
Trump noted that Iraq had 15 trillion dollars worth of oil reserves second only to Saudi Arabia. Trump said that if the US were to get its hands on some of that oil, it could make money and pay back...
Canada: Quotes from Jack Layton NDP leader.
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-11-02 19:56:27 -0700 | political-news
Someone suggested I might continue the series that I recently posted of quotes from the two main party leaders Stephen Harper of the Conservatives and Michael Ignatieff of the Liberals. So this is a post on the third largest party...
Canada: Quotes from Michael Ignatieff, Liberal opposition leader.
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-11-02 11:55:41 -0700 | political-news
As promised this is a followup post to quotes from Stephen Harper leader of the Conservatives and our prime minister. At first I had difficulty finding quotes that might be regarded as damaging by some to Ignatieff. But then I...
Canada: Quotes from Prime Minister Stephen Harper
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-11-02 05:36:51 -0700 | political-news
There is an election campaign going on in Canada. I thought I would do a few quotes from the two main leaders Stephen Harper of the Conservatives whose minority goverrnment was just defeated and another post later on of quotes...
Canada: Consortium of Broadcasters Conspires to Create News
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-07-26 04:59:26 -0700 | political-news
In Canada we are having a grand debate about a debate. Every federal election the leaders of parties that have seats in the legislature debate the issues in a special televised session as part of the election campaign. However there...
Libya: The oil factor.
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Brandon :: Canada | updated 2012-11-02 19:55:23 -0700 | business-news
As is well known Libya has extensive oil reserves of excellent quality. Many countries in Europe use Libyan oil especially Italy but many others and also China as well. After relations with Libya improved with Gadaffi turning over suspects in...
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