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Blake Johnston 25 January 2010

Coffee shop politics

Posted by Blake Johnston

There was an interesting poll out over the weekend from Ipsos- Reid’s Darrell Bricker. The horserace numbers are in keeping with other recent polls that show a considerable tightening of the race between the Conservatives and the Liberals, with the Liberals rising at the expense of the NDP/Greens/other voter pool. If these numbers hold it [...]

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Michael Ignatieff probably wasn’t expecting a Christmas present from the Prime Minister this year, but as it turns out he got a big one, just before 2010 kicked in.
Stephen Harper’s decision to prorogue parliament and his subsequent rationalizing of doing so has been as well received as Ignatieff’s fall decision to try and force an [...]

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The north side of Fleishman-Hillard’s Ottawa office offers an unobstructed view of one of the most majestic buildings in the world: Centre Block on Parliament Hill.
As I watched the Peace Tower emerge from the fog, yesterday, I was visited by a ghost. The ghost took me to back in time to the re-construction of the [...]

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