Excellent roundup of the 2011 election from Tom Slee. My additional comment is that the rise of the NDP/fall of the Liberals is another example of self-congratulatory liberal hawks being very, very special. There's room for only one prominent Iggy in Canada. I mean, say...
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Another Tory minority looks increasingly likely in the Canadian elections, although the increase in NDP support that may or may not hold up makes things difficult to predict.
My understanding is that the election following the non-confidence vote that felled the Harper government is likely to produce yet another Harper minority government, so whether it will change anything.
... just another immigrant trying to take a job away from a hard working American.
I'm currently in the UK doing some research at the National Archives, and I'm reminded that accidental finds are always more interesting that what you're actually looking for. Amidst the.
Apparently, the Canadian health care system also works.
Backpackers: Stop wasting your time trying to memorize words like "Chretien", "Eh", "Ottawa", and "Harper".
Deposed Canadian Liberal leader was indeed a good and able man, but was pretty clearly unsuited to the job as a party leader, as his whining about garden-variety opposition attacks.
Calgary Grit projects another Conservative minority. A majority had seemed possible to me, but according to this data the Tories just can't pick up enough seats in Quebec, and strategic voting is likely to decrease the final Conservative margins.
It's good to know that Canadian wingnuts are filled with modesty at the prospects of a Tory victory in two weeks. Good thing conservatives aren't, like, prone to sounding like.
Back in 2005 I sat on a panel at the University of Kentucky library on the future of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. At one point the conversation became.