Do you mean spending public funds on pleasure like the stuff in the tweet? If there are any rumours you have heard, please share!
If the Anonymous leaks are real, the sex tape that I was hoping for has arrived (well, close enough).
I wouldn't put too much stock in there being some smoking gun tape or photo. Anonymous is known for promising stuff like this and then not delivering. It all sounds a lot like the rumours before the 2008 US election, when Republicans were promising each other that there was a tape of Michelle Obama saying "Kill whitey". Like Silexx said, there are mainly just rumours of Baird throwing giant, drunken parties with his friends in other countries...if there are pictures, they'd have presumably come out by now.
He's bluffing. Liberals not joining a coalition will be way worse for them than joining a coalition.
I think the Liberals realize that by disavowing any coalition plans, they can win over some soft Conservative support, which could be enough to throw Ontario into their column. Fear of an NDP win gave the CPC a last-minute surge in Ontario last time around -- almost wholly at the expense of the Liberals -- so that could work against the Conservatives this time.
You know, my mind ended up wandering yesterday during work, and I came across something I overlooked on the topic of Electoral Reform. I'm almost certain that the NDP and Liberals will be able to get a bill passed through the house no problem... but thats only one part of the electoral system. It would still have to pass through the Senate, something which the Conservatives have a huge majority on.
If Harper was petty enough, couldn't he just tell the senators to vote against the bill like he has done in the past for other bills which the other parties have managed to get through the house.
The same applies for pretty much any legislation. The Liberals in the Senate could probably get a workable coalition going, since there are still some Red Tories in there who've been tinkering with some of Harper's legislation, but I don't know what the NDP would do. I'm not even sure how their legislation would get introduced in the Upper Chamber in the first place, let alone passed through. If they instantly appointed 20 Senators, that would bring the non-Conservative total to a majority, plus they could invoke S.26 of the Constitution Act to appoint an additional 8 senators, but that seems like it'd be really risky politics for the NDP (whereas for the Liberals, it would give them a chance to show how committed they are to non-partisan appointments).
Also, RE: the Wynne rally, it's about getting partisans excited and ready to vote. Compare this NDP rally/Mulcair book launch:
to this picture from last night:
Same venue in Toronto. One was small enough that Energy East protesters ended up being the takeaway story, the other generated all kinds of pictures of Trudeau speaking to a big, energetic crowd.