October 21, 2015

Fox & Friends freaks out over black Captain America: It’s a plot to ‘target conservatives’

The hosts of Fox & Friends asserted over the weekend that Marvel’s Captain America had declared war on conservatives because a recent comic book story line had the superhero battling white supremacists.

Conservative websites expressed outrage last week after a video released by the right-leaning MacIver Institute think tank suggested that Captain America’s latest villainous threat, Sons of the Serpent, represented real life conservatives who oppose Hispanic immigrants.

A Fox & Friends segment on Saturday warned that Captain America’s new mission was to “target conservatives.”

“He’s got a new odd enemy,” Fox News host Clayton Morris reported, noting that Captain America was now a black man. “Instead of going against Hydra and the typical Captain America villains, he’s going up against conservatives. That’s his new enemy.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/fox-friends-freaks-out-over-black-captain-america-its-a-plot-to-target-conservatives/

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October 20, 2015

CBC calls MAJORITY GOVERNMENT for the Liberal Party of Canada.

October 20, 2015

Canadian Election Open Thread

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October 20, 2015

Canadian Election: Atlantic Canada is solid Liberal red.

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October 19, 2015

Canada: Voter says he got pre-marked ballot for Conservatives at at early voting site

A Peterborough, Ont. student says he was given a pre-marked ballot when he went to vote at the advance polls on Thanksgiving Monday, but Elections Canada says they have no record of it.

Jeff Campbell, a 23-year-old political science student at Trent University, says he voted at the Lions Community Centre in his Peterborough—Kawartha riding and watched the polling officials rip a ballot out of their book, initial it and give it to him.

When he got to the voting booth, he says he looked down at it and noticed an X marked beside the name of the Conservative candidate for the area.

"This was a very clearly marked X in the ballot. Not... streaks or a smudge or anything like that. It was very obviously intended to mark a vote," he told CBC News on Saturday.

"My first thought was maybe they just handed me somebody else's ballot that had just come through, but it wasn't. They looked it up, it was matched up in the book with what they meant to give me so it must have been something else."


http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-pre-marked-ballot-peterborough-1.3277136

October 19, 2015

Canada Election 2015: Tory Politicians, Campaign Workers Feeling Bleak About Vote

HAMILTON — Senior Conservative politicians and campaign workers are bracing for electoral defeat on Monday and the ensuing party turmoil, with some activists beginning to take a closer look at the mechanics of a future leadership race.

Several high-level Conservative activists and politicians who spoke to The Canadian Press over the past two days said spirits are low inside the party, particularly in Ontario where Liberal numbers have surged.

They talk bleakly about entire swaths of Ontario returning to the Liberals, and that antipathy towards Conservative Leader Stephen Harper and the public's desire for change has been hard to rebut.

Still, some Tories hold out for the "what ifs" — what if there is a resilient pocket of Conservative support that will turn out, particularly if they are able to effectively get out the vote on Monday? They point to polling numbers tightening up this weekend — what if the Liberal momentum has ground to a halt?

"I think it's going to be an incredibly close campaign," said one senior Conservative, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

"I think the Conservatives are going to come away with a small minority despite their best efforts. It could range anywhere from a big Liberal minority to a big Conservative minority, but looks like a small Conservative minority."


http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/10/16/despite-many-what-ifs-senior-conservatives-feeling-bleak-about-vote_n_8316972.html

October 19, 2015

High turnout expected in Quebec for 42nd federal general election

After the longest federal election campaign in modern Canadian history, Quebecers cast their ballots Monday in what pollsters have predicted will be a highly competitive race between four political parties in the province.

In the 2011 election, the New Democratic Party swept 59 of the province’s 75 ridings in what came to be viewed as an “orange wave,” but, this time around, the NDP is facing serious challenges from the Liberals, the Bloc Québécois and the Conservatives.

What’s more, there are three new ridings in Quebec, and the boundaries of many existing electoral districts have been redrawn, which could lead to some election-night surprises.

And if the turnout at the advance polls is any indication, many more Quebecers will be voting in the 42nd general election than they did in 2011. More than 942,000 Quebecers cast ballots in the advance polls, up by 65.4 per cent since the last election, but below the national increase of 71 per cent.

Those numbers raise the prospect of long lineups at some polling stations, but Elections Canada will be prepared for any contingency and deploy the necessary personnel, a spokesperson said.

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/high-turnout-expected-in-quebec-for-42nd-federal-general-election

October 19, 2015

Canada: Liberals widen lead in final Globe poll of campaign

Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have a nine-point lead over the Conservatives in a Nanos Research poll conducted on eve of Monday’s federal 19 election.

When asked which party they would support if an election were held today, 39.1 per cent of respondents picked the Liberals, 30.5 per cent picked the Conservatives and 19.7 per cent chose the NDP.

As for other parties, 4.6 per cent of respondents picked the Green Party and 5.5 per cent chose the Bloc Quebecois.

The poll was conducted by Nanos Research for The Globe and Mail and CTV. Nanos polled 800 people on Sunday through live phone interviews. The margin of error is 3.7 per cent, 19 times out of 20.



http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/liberals-widen-lead-in-final-globe-poll-of-campaign/article26866501/

October 19, 2015

Final Election Poll Shows Canada’s Liberal Party Could Win a Majority

With Canadians just hours away from heading to the voting booth, a new poll provided in advance to VICE News predicts the Liberal Party is on track for a big win on Monday evening.

The Forum Research survey puts Justin Trudeau's Liberals at 40 percent — the highest result they've achieved thus far in the 78-day campaign — meaning the third-place party could be in a position to sweep into power with a majority government.

The poll puts the governing Conservatives at just 30 percent, and the official opposition New Democratic Party, who entered the campaign with a strong lead, in third place at 20 percent.

Forum may be the last pollster to release data on the campaign before the national ban on polling data comes into effect, at 10:30pm EST.

The polling company's projections — which are estimates of how many seats the parties could win, given their regional support — put the Liberals in majority territory, with 171 seats, the Conservatives well behind, with 109 seats, and the NDP in a distant third place, with just 46 seats.

https://news.vice.com/article/final-election-poll-shows-canadas-liberal-party-could-win-a-majority

October 18, 2015

The New Star War: The Force Awakens Poster in Here.

With a new trailer arriving on ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” tomorrow along with the start of ticket sales, Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Pictures have released the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens poster, which you can view in the gallery below!

The trailer will debut on Monday, October 19, during halftime of the National Football League (NFL) game between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles in Philadelphia. The game starts at 5:15 p.m. PDT/8:15 p.m. EDT. Following the trailer launch, tickets to the highly-anticipated cinematic event will be on sale everywhere movie tickets are sold.

Opening in theaters on December 18, 2015, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is set 30 years after the events of Return of the Jedi, and features a new generation of swashbuckling heroes and shadowy villains, as well as the return of fan-favorite smugglers, princesses, and Jedi.

Directed by J.J. Abrams, the highly-anticipated movie stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew and Max Von Sydow. Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk are producing with Tommy Harper and Jason McGatlin serving as executive producers. The screenplay is by Lawrence Kasdan & J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt.


http://www.superherohype.com/news/356021-the-new-star-wars-the-force-awakens-poster-is-here#/slide/1