News making
It’s getting nasty in Alberta
Well, that didn’t take long. After Alberta Premier Alison Redford promised a few days ago to run a positive campaign, this tweet from one of her staffers…
March 2012
17 posts from March 2012.
Wildrose Party
Alberta’s Wildrose way out ahead
Polling done by market research firm Campaign Research was completed last night in Alberta and the results are no short of stunning. The details: – Wildrose is…
Economy and Budget
Early budget details
It’s budget week for the federal government and as we’ve seen with previous budgets, some details are starting to leak out already. Here are some likely…
Canadian Politics
Thomas Mulcair’s NDP
Seven Months, 131,000 members, 69,000 votes, 4 ballots, Thomas Mulcair: 57%. This past weekend in Toronto, the federal New Democrats elected the next leader of…
Conservative Party of Canada
This looks familiar…
As spoofed by the Chris Matthews show this past Sunday. Lots of coverage in the US. Journalists do like to cover themselves, it seems. Here’s the NCC ad that…
UK Politics
British budget today
The coalition government of Prime Minister David Cameron unveiled their budget today in Westminster. Not billed as an austerity budget as has been done in…
Conservative Party of Canada
Conservatives release new ads
Pivoting from a deflating robocall narrative in the Mainstream Media, the Conservatives have released a couple of ads today for news reaction and twitter…
CBC
Competition lives here
CBC Music launched its digital music download service in the last few weeks. I can’t help but notice the similarity in the branding of the campaign launch to…
Canadian Business
Canadian spectrum announcement
The Harper government has just released word that it is making significant policy changes to ownership of the Canadian spectrum with respect to wireless…