The latest hard evidence that the CBC is NOT Canada’s broadcaster but the broadcaster of the Liberal Party can be found in the revelation that it was the CBC that was coming up with the questions for the Liberal members of the Ethics Committee to ask Brian Mulroney. You can read the report exposing the CBC and see the news clip here.

Now here’s something you don’t see too often - a poll with only a 2.5 point margin of error 19 times out of 20 showing voter preference in the Atlantic Provinces. Mind you, the Herald story doesn’t provide all the details (typical). But the details for Nova Scotia are there with a slightly higer margin of error. Applying these figures to the UBC Election Forecaster the results in seats in NS would be:

Lib = 5 (-1)
CPC = 4 (+1)
NDP = 2 (same)

The two wild card ridings in this are the neighbouring ones of Central Nova (where no Liberal will be running) and Cumberland-Colchester (where Bill Casey is the incumbent). First Cumberland-Colchester: the UBC results show that there should be enough “blue” support there that Casey and the CPC candidate could slit the vote right down the middle and still have enough that whichever one is slightly ahead will beat the NDP and Liberals. So it might be 4 CPC seats or 3 plus an independent. Despite his political heritage Casey has voted with the opposition more often than the government since his ouster so that would really be a loss for the Conservatives.

In Central Nova, Dion is the only one expecting Liberals to vote Green. May will trail the field and the only issue is whether enough disenfranchised Liberals will vote NDP to upset Peter MacKay. According to this poll MacKay is still in the drivers seat by a still-comfortable margin.

So where is that extra CPC seat? In West Nova where the poll has Robert Thibault, lead Liberal on the House Ethics Committee, losing to the CPC candidate by 6 points.

The situation for the Conservatives in the region should improve even more with the war between Ottawa and St. John’s blowing over. Here’s hoping.

This article explains that all the models used now based on global warming assumptions are at odds with the actual data.

In this column by Ian MacDonald he correctly fingers the new collection of Liberal and NDP MPs who are hitching their political stars to how low they can stoop in mischaracterizing the actions of anyone they can associate with their political opponents. Once again, the left, devoid of convincing policy arguments, assumes that voters are gullible enough to believe anything bad about anyone and the bigger the lie the better.

Hopefully come election time these new rat packers will be sent packing.

These are based on running the regional breakdowns of the latest Decima poll through the UBC election forecaster.

CPC … 131
Lib … 110
BQ … 37
NDP … 29

Better than the last two from SES and Strategic Council. Bigger sample too so hopefully more accurate.

Here’s a link to the video of the RCMP tasering this Polish immigrant to death. More later.

We just got rid of a buffoon of a Prime Minister and now, at least as far as that latest poll truly represents voter intention, we are seriously considering electing another one. As this exchange in the Commons illustrates, Stephane Dion is an idiot. The incredible fact that his supporters laud him for his intellectual qualities speaks volumes about both.

Here are the numbers and the seat projections based on the latest poll by SES (Nick Nanos’ firm):

CPC . . . 35% . . . 106 seats
Lib . . . 34% . . . 137 seats
BQ . . . 9% . . . 40 seats
NDP . . . 17% . . . 29 seats
Grn . . . 6% . . . 0 seats

So there we have it, the Conservatives “win” the popular vote by 1% but, thanks to our irrational, antiquated, and utterly undemocratic first-past-the-post voting system, the result is a Liberal government. Oh well, at least its not a majority and there have been Liberal majorities with a similar popular vote.

This is why I support electoral reform.

John Coleman, the founder of the Weather Channel, has declared the global warming frenzy to be the greatest scam in history. He has a number of related links to sites debunking the myth of global warming.

I endorse this opinion of the Dalai Lama.