Portage & Maintenance
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Dear Winnipeg, Oddly enough, despite Portage & Main being the main issue
that pushed me to start Dear Winnipeg, I have never actually written a
single le...
2 weeks ago
Casual commentary about political, cultural and economic issues with a particular interest on the city of Winnipeg by John Dobbin
Three federal byelections -- one in Ontario, two in Manitoba -- will be fought Monday in the fog of Grey Cup aftermath, hangovers, missed flights and lost bets.
So we might as well predict our winners now.
In the Ontario riding of Vaughan, perched above Liberal-drenched Toronto: Conservative candidate Julian Fantino.
In the Manitoba riding of Winnipeg North: Conservative candidate Julie Javier.
And, in the Manitoba riding of Dauphin-Swan River: Conservative candidate Robert Sopuck.
Yes, we can hear the Liberals already -- as in what else would you expect from Sun Media, a right-leaning newspaper chain more prone to boot-licking the Harper government than booting it in the slats?
But that's always the left's default position.
The reason three Conservatives will win is because they are the best candidates, arriving at a time when the Liberals are spinning their wheels, and getting no traction from Michael Ignatieff, a truly hapless leader.
"If a leader loses momentum [Monday], they'll have a hard time gaining it back before the budget gets tabled in February," Lavigne told reporters.
And yet, it was NDP Leader Jack Layton who not only lost a seat, but saw his party lose thousands of votes in Vaughan.
In the Manitoba riding of Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette, the Conservatives easily held the riding, and the NDP vote total improved over the results of the 2008 general election.
Bakema had such faulty memory that he couldn't even remember calls he made to a auto dealership at the scene. The lack of notes sure looks bad. The rules of the East Saint Paul Police clearly state that notes are needed at any crime scene.