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Hey Randy, Mercer was just joking about the vacation thing.

Posted by Scott Tribe on January 26, 2010, at 4:54 pm |

You all remember this amusing little 30 second skit put on by Rick Mercer a week or 2 ago:

Well, I guess Prince Albert Conservative MP Randy Hoback thought Rick was being serious about that, since MP Hoback has decided to take advantage of Harper’s prorogue and vacation in California. I bet his [...]

Liberals release proposals to make prorogation harder to do, but is it enough?

Posted by Scott Tribe on January 25, 2010, at 12:18 pm |

The hinted at reforms to curtailing the prorogation power of the Prime Minister was released by the Liberal Party and Michael Ignatieff at Ottawa today. Here’s an excerpt of the news-release with the proposals they’ve put forth:

To prevent future abuses of prorogation, the Liberal Party of Canada will seek to amend the Standing [...]

If you dont believe CAPP is a reflection of public anger at prorogation...

Posted by Scott Tribe on January 24, 2010, at 7:03 pm |

..such as CFRB 1010′s John Moore who has liked to team up with Globe blogger Dan Cook in scoffing at the CAPP Facebook group, perhaps you and they will believe the polls show that anger – and yet another one released this evening confirms a drop for the Conservatives and a jump for the [...]

CAPP gets a bit of a membership boost

Posted by Scott Tribe on January 24, 2010, at 1:07 pm |

Just a brief Sunday observation: I see the CAPP facebook group has gotten a bit of a membership boost today; up to 214 295 members as of now – a boost of 3000 from yesterday morning when I last looked at it. Not surprising, given the good publicity and generally favourable media coverage the [...]

My call: the anti-prorogue rallies are a success..

Posted by Scott Tribe on January 23, 2010, at 3:38 pm |

..from an attendance standpoint, if that’s your litmus test (and as I said last blogpost, it isn’t necessarily for me and others) and the total numbers from every protest centre haven’t trickled in yet.

However, from what we’ve seen from some reporter and organizer accounts on Twitter and Facebook, we’re getting reports/estimates from [...]

Does it matter how big the CAPP crowds are for the movement to be a success?

Posted by Scott Tribe on January 23, 2010, at 9:09 am |

Many people have asked whether the tremendous success and growth of the Facebook group Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament (now at just under 211 000 members as of this AM) would translate over to the street in the form of today’s protests that are being held. That seems to be the question more then a [...]

Prorogation reform by the opposition parties

Posted by Scott Tribe on January 20, 2010, at 5:11 pm |

In brief, the NDP are the first to come out with a proposal on what they’d do to prevent the abuse of the prorogation power. Steve V over at Far and Wide is a bit ticked that the NDP beat the Liberals to the punch, even as he acknowledges that this proposal from the [...]

No prorogue protests via text message

Posted by Scott Tribe on January 20, 2010, at 10:38 am |

This is another innovative way to register your protest to Harper’s unnecessary proroguing of Parliament; by text message:

…we’ve launched a real-time text-messaging system that will also work across Canada for all of the CAPP rallies. The idea is to have rally participants (and even those at home) take out their cellphones and text [...]

A plug/announcement for the January 23 No Prorogue! Rally in Toronto

Posted by Scott Tribe on January 18, 2010, at 8:47 pm |

One of the organizers of this event asked me if I’d consider posting this announcement, and I’m happy to oblige, since I have a fair # of Toronto and area readers. (Remember, check No Prorogue’s website for Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament closest rallies nearest to you if you want to attend one): ———-

NO [...]

Some articles/data on prorogation

Posted by Scott Tribe on January 18, 2010, at 11:15 am |

There’s a great article by Professor Michael Geist on the explosive growth on the Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament Facebook group and how critics of the group have missed the point of social advocacy today in the Toronto Star. Geist, as he mentions in his article, has had his own facebook group, Fair Copyright For [...]

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Hey Randy, Mercer was just joking about the vacation thing.

Liberals release proposals to make prorogation harder to do, but is it enough?

If you dont believe CAPP is a reflection of public anger at prorogation...

CAPP gets a bit of a membership boost

My call: the anti-prorogue rallies are a success..

Does it matter how big the CAPP crowds are for the movement to be a success?

Prorogation reform by the opposition parties

No prorogue protests via text message

A plug/announcement for the January 23 No Prorogue! Rally in Toronto

Some articles/data on prorogation

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