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Posted by Scott Tribe on September 29, 2011, at 6:32 pm |
I’m going to need to first off learn how to pronounce Borys’s last name correctly. Secondly, like a couple of other Liberal bloggers, his entry into the Liberal leadership race is very intriguing.
Now, I don’t know a lot about Borys, other then his participation in the Ukrainian motion and such that is described in the original article, so just because he seems a good grass-roots candidate doesn’t mean I’m going to support him until I research him a bit more.. but this party and this party leadership race needs a good shake-up, and if Borys can supply that, that’s half the battle for [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on December 8, 2008, at 12:47 am |
It’s been understandably a tad slow of late with Liberal blogs and who they endorse for Liberal leader; the events of the past week have understandably caught everyone’s attention. Now after a week’s lull, we’ve had 2 additional ones going into the Rae column: The Independent Partisan, and Blogging if necessary but not necessarily blogging.
Whether these and the rest of the list of blogs who have endorsed a candidate turn out to be a moot point will depend on what the LPC executive decide to do on Wednesday. If there is still a formal leadership convention in May, then I’ve no reason to remove the lists. An item [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on November 25, 2008, at 12:42 pm |
- In case you missed it, Harper has signed a Free Trade agreement with Colombia, which has had one of the worst human-rights records in the hemisphere, as well as still being the largest producer of cocaine in the world. It’s not a surprise Harper would sign this despite all of that, since he considers Colombia and its president Uribe to be an ideological friend, and he has dismissed calls before that he is placing trade over human rights. The Toronto Star is right in calling for opposition MP’s to force Harper to commission an independent human rights assessment of the country before approving this Free Trade Agreement.
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Posted by Scott Tribe on November 24, 2008, at 12:03 pm |
The Globe and Mail’s Lawrence Martin seems to think so, judging by its article on Dominic Leblanc titled Will Dominic Leblanc be the Liberal’s Kingmaker? as highlighted by James Morton’s blogpiece:
For an unheralded candidate, he’s off to a good start. He has an impressive base of support in the Maritimes; will attract many younger delegates; has strong ties, being an Acadian, to francophones; and is building up support in British Columbia. A first-ballot haul of 10 per cent to 20 per cent of the delegates is well possible. From there, he could navigate the outcome, choosing to move to Bob Rae or Michael Ignatieff on the second ballot.
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Posted by Scott Tribe on November 22, 2008, at 4:26 pm |
Things have slowed down a bit on the blog endorsement front in the past week or so, but I thought this would be a good time to mention how the 3 leadership candidates for the Liberal Party leadership are doing endorsement wise amongst the Liberal blogs (both those on Liblogs and those who aren’t).
As you might expect being “the front-runner”, Michael Ignatieff leads with 9 blogs endorsing him – he got an additional blog endorsement today courtesy of Vijay Sappani’s blog. Bob Rae comes in second with 6 blog endorsements, followed closely by Dominic Leblanc with 5. So, Bob and Dom’s blog endorsements together outnumber Iggy’s. If that [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on November 20, 2008, at 9:41 am |
So Bob Rae has officially announced his candidacy for leader of the Liberal Party, which Kady is live-blogging the news conference where he’s doing the announcing.
Later today, Mr. Rae will be holding a “bloggers news conference” which apparently has Liberal bloggers of all persuasion invited, regardless of who they are supporting. As someone who is undeclared/neutral, it should be an interesting event, to hear what the bloggers ask him, and what his responses are – particularly to Liberal bloggers who’ve already endorsed another candidate.
(And yes, I do have a question in mind to ask him if I get a chance to ask it).
Posted by Scott Tribe on November 18, 2008, at 9:26 am |
I won’t be posting one of these updates every time we get a new Liberal blogger or blog endorsing such and such a candidate, but when a major Liberal blogger endorses, that’s noteworthy. Since Jason Cherniak stepped away from blogging, I’m going to make an educated guess that Dan Arnold of Calgary Grit is probably the most widely known and most widely read of the Liberal bloggers out there. This morning, he’s made it known that he’s endorsing Dominic Leblanc for Liberal leader, and lists the reasons why:
In short, LeBlanc is a politician of great potential, the only knocks being a lack of name recognition and a really [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on November 17, 2008, at 10:11 pm |
I hope yesterday’s controversy in Mississauga isn’t an indication we’re going to be in for 6 more months of silliness from our leadership candidates – or their followers in blogposts and comment threads.
I applaud the passion some people have for their candidate of choice, (and I realize there are going to be arguments between candidates) but I’m just saying it’s not exactly party unity type stuff going on in some quarters. The last leadership convention got a bit nasty and personal between Liberals – particularly those ones online, and we’re already seeing it starting up again. It doesn’t exactly give those folks who might otherwise want to help [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on November 16, 2008, at 1:03 pm |
I thought for interest sake I’d take a gander at the list of Liberal blogs who support each Liberal Leadership candidate at this juncture, since I thought the list that Ted over at the now-defunct blog Cerberus kept (in 2006) was a pretty good tracker of who was endorsing who.
I’ve taken a look-see through the Liblogs list (as well as Progressive Bloggers where I know the blog is a Liberal supporting blog but not on Liblogs), and where I can find a specific endorsement of a candidate, I’ve listed them as such.
Blogs that support Dominic LeBlanc:
All Politics Is Local John LaForet’s Blog
Blogs that support Michael [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on November 13, 2008, at 2:12 pm |
1) Michael Ignatieff announces he is running for the Liberal leadership
2) Warren Kinsella announces he is supporting Mr. Ignatieff”s candidacy.
I’m glad about #2: the breathless speculation of who Warren is supporting can now cease and desist – I suppose we’ll now see some Liberal bloggers going after Warren for his choice, but I have to say I respect him for why he did it. The reason I joined the Liberal Party in Dec 2006 was because I was there covering the Convention for BlogsCanada/Progressive Bloggers, and I witnessed in person how Dion won the leadership, how he carried himself, and for his beliefs in general. I became [...]
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