While doing research for something else I stumbled over this fun little news nugget.

From CTV

There are 19 registered political parties in Canada

There is the Pirate Party. It says it “strives to reform copyright laws and to protect the privacy of Canadians.” I just like the name.

There’s that old favourite the Rhinos.

On their website they proudly say we don’t speak English very much but we French very well.

They promise their website will be translated some day.

One of the best ones though has been deregistered for this election. I don’t know why.

I could give some serious thought to the Work Less Party.

Workers of the World relax. Alarm clocks kill dreams.

That would be something to sleep on.

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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.