by Gerry Nicholls Thanks to crack investigative reporting and to first-rate Opposition party research a disturbing detail has emerged regarding the robocall scandal. It turns out using fraudulent and irritating phone calls to annoy and misdirect voters is actually an “American-style” trick. NDP MP Pat Martin first broke this alarming news when he fumed: “These [...]
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Using American-style tricks an insult to Canadian pride
Posted on 22 March 2012.
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The sad case of the National Citizens Coalition
Posted on 07 October 2011.
by Gerry Nicholls I think it was former Maple Leaf enforcer Tie Domi who once said of hockey fights, “It’s not how many you win, it’s how many you show up for.” And to its great shame and disgrace, the National Citizens Coalition did not show up for the Ontario election fight. It’s true. The [...]
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The Ontario election, the OLA and Democracy
Posted on 06 September 2011.
by Gerry Nicholls It looks like the Toronto media and the political establishment have a new villain: the Ontario Landowners Association. It all started when Norm Sterling, a long time MPP for the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, got turfed after losing the party nomination to Jack MacLaren, who happens to be a former director of the OLA. [...]
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