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January 2008

Dion Appoints By-Election Candidate

January 5, 2008 - 10:03 — gauntlet
Stephane Dion has recently announced that he is appointing Joan Beatty, an aboriginal activist from Saskatchewan, as the candidate in Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River for the upcoming by-elections.

Go Deep!

January 9, 2008 - 09:32 — gauntlet

Saskatchewan Liberals Revolt Against Appointment

January 11, 2008 - 21:29 — gauntlet
As reported by the CBC, some of the Liberal Party members in the riding of

Here's to Jimmy Ford

January 15, 2008 - 08:08 — gauntlet
I spend a lot of time on this blog talking about how people ought to be allowed to nominate their own candidates in elections.It would be remiss of me to pretend that the nomination process is not also deeply flawed, and in need of reform.

Premier Lougheed at the U of A

January 15, 2008 - 21:03 — gauntlet
Luckily for me, I didn't even have to get up from my seat in Property Law class today in order to attend Premier Lougheed's speech at the U of A Faculty of Law this afternoon.

Conservative Election Funding

January 16, 2008 - 18:33 — gauntlet
If I give you $1000 and tell you to donate it to the Liberal Party, and you do, you and I are both guilty of campaign finance violations under the Elections Act. Otherwise there would be no point to having a limit on how much people are allowed to donate to the Liberal Party each year.