Live from the Nuke Free Zone

(Just a warning: Canadian politics increasingly activates my inner Cynical Bastard, in both good and bad ways. This is an exemplary case of that.)
So. 1:30am Atlantic time:
125 Conservative seats
102 Liberal seats
51 BQ seats
29 NDP seats
1 independent

I should be more upset about this than I am, especially considering Martin’s resignation as Liberal party leader just now. […]

Via the Ceeb rather than the Beeb for once, we’ve got this:
TORONTO - Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board will hear Monday why Jeremy Hinzman, a former paratrooper with the U.S. army, should be granted refugee status in Canada.
Rather than serve in Iraq, Hinzman deserted the army and came to Canada in January seeking sanctuary […]

This evening, we have this bit of news, from the CBC:
OTTAWA - Police officers can temporarily detain suspects if they have reasonable grounds, but they can’t go on “fishing expeditions” for evidence in the pockets of people they’re detaining, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday.
As far as Supreme Courts go, the Canadian […]

Well, that was different, as far as elections go.
I’ve been holding off on my commentary since Monday’s poll for a couple of reasons. The main one was that the election was so insanely close in some ridings that recounts were necessary; the other reason is that I wanted to see how the various parties and […]

Welp, I’m back on the platform kick again. Today we’re going to be talking about the platform of the New Democratic Party. Said platform is available (in PDF form) here, or here for the HTML version. In terms of the text, both are essentially identical.
Of the platforms so far, on a basic “read this without […]

Almost done the NDP platform, which’ll be up tomorrow afternoon. First, however, this from the CBC.
The Conservative Party in the current elections up here has been busily endearing itself to the populace by talking about its enmity to basic constitutional freedoms for a couple of weeks now. Since Harper and Layton(!!) both tripped over […]

Welp, my punishment-gluttony kicked in and I’m going after another party’s platform now. Which? Well, the Conservatives’, of course.
I’ve been sitting on this one for a couple days, being both busy with other stuff and feeling vaguely traumatized at the platforms in general. (When I’m king of the future, there shall be a word-per-pledge ratio, […]

Time to get political on you guys. As some of you know, there is a general election being called in Canada for June 28th. With a little over two weeks to go in a five-week campaign, I figured it’s time to take a good look at the party platforms. So every day, possibly every other […]

Well, if you’ve been living under a rock in Canada, or living in the States at all, you should be told that Canada’s federal election campaign is underway, with the vote itself on June 28.
I figure since I’ve got a record to be on I’ll take a shot at making my predictions.

In terms of […]