Tag Archives: Federal Election
Choosing Evil
The line haunts me still, 40 years later, as Canadians go to the polls today to elect a federal government. The book was The New Left and Christian Radicalism by Art Gish. I bought it because my political thought in those days was more left leaning than right. (These days I would probably be classified […]
Election Day is Coming!
I promised at the outset of this Canadian election campaign that I would stay away from it in this space, and for the most part I have. It has been, to say the least, difficult. I may be a political junkie, but this is not a political blog. Well sometimes it can be, but I […]
The Social Media Election
Today is the last day for candidates to file their nomination papers to run in the Oct. 19 Canadian federal election. I will not be running. Writing this blog has disqualified me from ever being able to seek public office. The problem is that not only do I have opinions, but I have shared them. […]
Campaign Signs
His name is Ryan Leef and he is running for Parliament in Yukon. I’ve never met him, but I do admire his response to those who were vandalizing his signs. I have worked on many an election campaign. One common element to almost all campaigns is deliberate defacement and destruction of campaign signs. Signs cost […]
And They’re Off!
The writ has dropped. For those of you not familiar with Westminster tradition, that’s just a formal way of saying the Canadian federal election is underway. I am a political junkie. But this is not a political blog and I will for the most part steer clear of this election campaign. I may, over the […]
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