Anti-Harper groups organizing online

An online "Anyone but Harper" movement is underway on Facebook groups, left-leaning blogs and websites such as, wait for it, anyonebutharper.ca. In addition to creating and hosting satirical videos attacking Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, this site is attempting to coordinate strategic voting to defeat Conservative candidates - and has a widget on its site that tells you which party has the best chance to do that for a given postal code, based on the results of the previous election.

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[LookingIn]

To coordinate voting you need a good picture of what's going on across the country, but it's a bit difficult to tell from anyonebutharper.ca. They should coordinate with www.vote.ca to map out what action is occurring where...

[James Gibbons]

I think you should check out the site: http://www.voteforenvironment.ca. It suggests strategic candidates to vote for that will help stop the likely Harper Conservative Majority!!!

[Phillip Huggan]

I've accounted the societally high ROI 3 year expenditures of all 5 parties; positive externalities like environmental capital costing, R+D, daycare, foreign aid, and mental health + affordable housing programmes to fight homelessness. Rankings are: 1st Greens $172B, 2nd Libs $45B, 3rd NDP $45B, 4th Bloc $15B, 5th Cons $8B.
Ignoring off-the-chart Greens, Liberals have highest environment and R+D totals, NDP best childcare and highest sindustry penalty, and Bloc the best anti-homelessness strategies: http://externalityaccounting.blogspot.com/

[RayF]

These debates are a waste of time. All four minor parties focused on Mr. Harper. It is almost a self admission that he is in the lead to form the next government. To keep these personal attacks from happening in the future we should ban polls prior to an election once they are called.This way there would be less focus on a targeted opponent such as Harper in this case.Mr. Doucette is not relevant, Mr. Dion is not a leader, Mr. Layto i misguided and Lizzy May is a one issue disaster. Oly Mr. Harper has the dexterity to grab policy that are affordable equally representative of the population and not cast in stne for ever and ever.

[RayF]

Watching the french debate on CBC tonight and the bloody bleeting about the arts is enough t make me vomit. Let those who have this deep love for the arts support the arts. I and many other countrymen have many other priorities over and above the arts. Lets get these solved and then deal with the arts funding by the taxpayers when we can afford the luxury.

[RayF]

Mr. Dion and Mr Douceppe focus so much on Quebec it seems as though they should be running provincially rather than nationally. Mr. Dions solution for fixing the doctor shortage was to have a specal program to hire more doctors for Quebec. I thought these men wanted to represent Canada and not just a specific region. If that is just an oversiht I quess you can inform them there are a million or more french seaking canadians living outside of Quebec.

[RayF]

The Afganistan conflict will not be solved until the borders are secured either by a no go zone with controlled crossings or a joint effort with Pakistan to eliminate the havens in that country. If they won't do it then NATO with UN consensis must do it. If we don't go the full nine yards here or anywhere we'll never rectify these warmongering terrorists anywhere in the world. Tht is the trouble today we are afrai we'll offend some one and heaven forbid that ever should happen.

[RayF]

The post debate review said that Mr Dion conveyed his plan to canadians very well. This observation is a little out of whack as he was only speaking to 5 million Canadians in Quebec and nothing of what he said was heard by 32 million Canadians throughout the rest of the country. Mr. Douceppe is irrelevant, Mr May is a one pony show and Mr Layton looked as though he was playing ping pong without a racket. Mr. Dion is finished and when he has to express himself tomorrow in ANGLISH we may as well gie him a shovel to dig his hole.