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« Reply #1825 on: September 03, 2013, 09:05:35 PM »

All our QC incumbents win on personal votes anyways, though it'd be nice to regain some seats in Quebec City. Otherwise a Dipper-Grit battle. Far removed from the heady days of pre-gala '08, if in retrospect that was probably unsustainable.

Wouldn't Mégantic-L'Érable be in danger?

Maybe, but not like Paradis would be much of a loss anyways.

On a different note, is anyone surprised that the new PBO is reportedly tame?
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« Reply #1826 on: September 03, 2013, 09:23:32 PM »

All our QC incumbents win on personal votes anyways, though it'd be nice to regain some seats in Quebec City. Otherwise a Dipper-Grit battle. Far removed from the heady days of pre-gala '08, if in retrospect that was probably unsustainable.

Wouldn't Mégantic-L'Érable be in danger?

Paradis won his seat by 23% and the Liberals only managed 5%. The swings will work in his favour. Of course, if there's a disproportionate swing against the Tories due to Lac Megantic or the boundaries are changed, anything is possible.

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« Reply #1827 on: September 03, 2013, 09:47:54 PM »

More Senate stuff.
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« Reply #1828 on: September 04, 2013, 09:51:10 AM »

308 crunches the Leger provincial numbers as 61 PQ, 57 PLQ, 5 CAQ (LOL) and 2 QS. I for one would be happy for a return to essentially 2-party politics.
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« Reply #1829 on: September 04, 2013, 10:40:41 AM »

308 crunches the Leger provincial numbers as 61 PQ, 57 PLQ, 5 CAQ (LOL) and 2 QS. I for one would be happy for a return to essentially 2-party politics.

Says someone who wouldn't vote for any of them Tongue

Unless you support the PLQ now? I for one have put my tactical support behind the PLQ over the PQ now that Charest is gone and Marois has turned out to be a huge racist.

My ranked support of Quebec parties is now:

1) UCQ
2) PVQ
3) QS
4) CAQ
5) PLQ
6) ON
7) PQ

Any type of movement below the #3 spot is highly possible.
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« Reply #1830 on: September 04, 2013, 10:55:58 AM »

308 crunches the Leger provincial numbers as 61 PQ, 57 PLQ, 5 CAQ (LOL) and 2 QS. I for one would be happy for a return to essentially 2-party politics.
CAQ is cursed with a similar vote distribution to the bloc Quebecois.
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« Reply #1831 on: September 04, 2013, 11:34:21 AM »

I vaguely recall Dave saying that he prefers fewer threads with more posts, because the site runs faster that way? I think Inks then merged some threads in FC.
No, he said he preferred threads not to cross a certain size, so Inks closed some threads in FC and created successor threads.
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« Reply #1832 on: September 04, 2013, 02:56:50 PM »

One Quebec teachers' union would prefer defunding parochial schools.
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« Reply #1833 on: September 04, 2013, 03:11:01 PM »


The phrase "parochial schools" implies that this funding is a bit more extensive than funding Catholic schools like in Ontario. Is that true?
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« Reply #1834 on: September 04, 2013, 03:28:58 PM »

Meanwhile, in more lol-worthy polls:

Liberals: 42
NDP: 32
PC: 23

Guess what province?

PEI!: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2013/09/04/pei-cra-poll-ndp-liberals-584.html

Federally? NOPE! Provincially!
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« Reply #1835 on: September 04, 2013, 03:41:54 PM »
« Edited: September 04, 2013, 03:46:12 PM by Natural Governing Party (TM) »

Nah, it applies to all private and independent schools. They get 40% of the per-capita grant given to public schools. Here's the criteria if you want a look.

Hatman: Joining NL. Wonder what's driving the Dipper surge out East.

Forgot to post this way back, but Fraser school rankings were released this summer. Unsurprisingly, here in Quebec Brébeuf leads the pack as usual. Cool
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« Reply #1836 on: September 04, 2013, 03:47:30 PM »

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No idea, especially with Trudeau's popularity out here. People aren't exactly salivating over Dexter either. It's puzzling.
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« Reply #1837 on: September 04, 2013, 05:15:01 PM »

Here's a very long PKP profile, courtesy of Maclean's.

New Nanos out: 36 Liberal, 30 Tory, 25 Dipper. Economy is tops at 35% with corruption/Senate second at 17% and healthcare at 12%.
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« Reply #1838 on: September 04, 2013, 05:57:39 PM »

Saint Mary's University frosh chant cheers underage sex

God my school is douchey. This only confirms disdain for frosh, frats etc.

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« Reply #1839 on: September 05, 2013, 09:09:03 AM »
« Edited: September 05, 2013, 09:13:26 AM by Natural Governing Party (TM) »

May apparently intends to lead the Greens till she's 80. LOL.

More from Nanos: Trudeau is considered the least competent leader.

Gagnon on how even France isn't purely laïque.

Different types of laïcité. As Hébert hints in today's column, this is really aimed at the ROQ conservatives. PLQ and CAQ are more in the open category.
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« Reply #1840 on: September 05, 2013, 09:55:37 AM »

Don't the Greens have leadership elections every 2 years? Or did E-May drop those?
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« Reply #1841 on: September 05, 2013, 10:27:55 AM »

As I expected, CRA did polls of all the Atlantic provinces.  And they're all pretty lol worthy. Except NS Sad

NB:

Lib: 47
NDP: 24
PC: 23

NL:
Lib: 41
NDP: 33
PC: 26

Strange how Trudeaumania is helping the provincial Liberals. And yet, the NDP remains strong. Where are the Tory voters going?
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« Reply #1842 on: September 05, 2013, 02:01:16 PM »

As I expected, CRA did polls of all the Atlantic provinces.  And they're all pretty lol worthy. Except NS Sad

NB:

Lib: 47
NDP: 24
PC: 23

NL:
Lib: 41
NDP: 33
PC: 26

Strange how Trudeaumania is helping the provincial Liberals. And yet, the NDP remains strong. Where are the Tory voters going?

Liberals. It's almost all Red Tories out here.
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« Reply #1843 on: September 05, 2013, 03:01:28 PM »

NL?

More like orange Tories, at least in Avalon.
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« Reply #1844 on: September 05, 2013, 05:00:59 PM »

Perhaps they see the BC Liberals as something to emulate?
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« Reply #1845 on: September 05, 2013, 05:48:40 PM »

Would be nice if all provinces became NDP-Tory or NDP-Liberal 2 party provinces. Don't hold out on us Alberta and Ontario!
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« Reply #1846 on: September 05, 2013, 05:54:02 PM »

Would be nice if all provinces became NDP-Tory or NDP-Liberal 2 party provinces. Don't hold out on us Alberta and Ontario!

Aren't you a huge PR guy?
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« Reply #1847 on: September 05, 2013, 06:41:11 PM »

308 projects a narrow Liberal minority from CRA. Hilariously inefficient vote seems to be a Liberal hallmark, except (GAH) provincially in Ontario.
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« Reply #1848 on: September 05, 2013, 06:41:57 PM »

Don't the Greens have leadership elections every 2 years? Or did E-May drop those?

Well the crazy lady has basically turned the party into some personalist party/personality cult.
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« Reply #1849 on: September 05, 2013, 08:11:17 PM »

Would be nice if all provinces became NDP-Tory or NDP-Liberal 2 party provinces. Don't hold out on us Alberta and Ontario!

Aren't you a huge PR guy?

You can still have PR in 2 party races Wink
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