Author: Jon Siemko

As first noticed by BC blue professor Peter Loewen, has a too close for comfort relationship with Michael ignatieff and the Liberal party.


From Brian Lilley


Peter Loewen, assistant professor of political science at the University of Toronto, is also the director of analytics for the CBC’s online vote selection tool. Vote Compass, a 30 question online tool, is supposed to give voters an idea of what party they are most closely aligned. Critics say it’s biased towards the Liberals.
“I volunteered in 2006,” Loewen says of his work for Ignatieff’s first failed bid for the Liberal leadership. “The nature of that work was that I wrote a couple of policy papers on equalization.”


I don’t know about you but writing a policy paper for a Liberal leadership candidate is a little more intimate than just casual canvassing. Furthermore this sheds more light on the liberal bias at the CBC, like Lucy the state broadcaster has some explaining to do.

This story probably deserves a little more coverage but will be overshadowed by the Federal election.

From city news
The province’s energy sector usually boasts the highest earners on the list. Ontario Power Generation says 7,786 of its 12,500 workers made the list last year.

This election  will show how weak  the Canadian left has become as a political force in Canada.

From  London Free Press
“We have been saying all along, if we don’t win, we will get a coalition government,” Joe Preston, Conservative candidate for Elgin-Middlesex-London said.

“I am worried if Stephen Harper gets a majority. I made a strategic decision,” Dolby said.

How many more “strategic decisions” will we see from NDP and Green candidates across Canada.