… then she reverted back to being a bitch, but almost, I almost agreed with her. The article in question is her piece in the Globe about Quebec’s student protests, the militant CLASSE group, and the “future baristas” of the Canadian job market that apparently make up these protests. Wente
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Over To You, Christy Clark
“Under the Enbridge proposal, British Columbia would assume almost all the [Northern Gateway] project’s risk, yet would see only a fraction of the benefits,” said Dix in a release. “By any measure, such a high-risk, low-return approach simply isn’t in B.C.’s interests.” It looks, incidentally, as though the federal government’s
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Persistence of False Information #nlpoli
In an interview on The Current last week, Anthony Germain asked Premier Kathy Dunderdale why she wasn’t trying to sell Muskrat Falls to people in Newfoundland and Labrador as Danny Williams might have. “If we are going to break Quebec’s stranglehold on the province…” suggested Germain, as he cast the
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Just a barrel of laughs
Oh, why not let Conrad Black come back to Canada? We could do worse and we need the comic relief — think of how much fun we’ll have skewering his pompous OpEds!
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: About Conrad Black’s return: surely Canadians deserve honest answers
Lord Black gesticulates at Communications Energy and Paperworkers Local 115A President Andy Marshall in 1999. Below: Omar Khadr, Jason Kenney, George Galloway, Farouk Adatia. Let’s mark this international day of the worker by having a grown-up discussion about the readmission to Canada of Conrad Black, the former Canadian citizen and
Continue readingThat ain’t strategic voting, Mr. Topp. That’s called campaigning.
So I just read this article by Brian Topp in the Globe and Mail. And I have to say, it is obvious to me that either Topp is being willfully ignorant about the definition of strategic voting, or he is an idiot. Reposted from my post on the Liberal.ca forums:
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Choosing a Speaker for Alberta: Your chance to vote … sort of
Your blogger with yet another of the candidates to be called Mr. Speaker, the dulcetly mellifluous Gene Zwozdesky, looking none too thrilled about this photo opportunity in Speakerly garb. I have been surprised by the amount of interested generated by my post suggesting there is a three-way or possibly four-way
Continue readingCanadian Trends: At what point does resistance become terrorism?
There was a lot of topics I wanted to write about today but in the end, I feel I really need to come back around to NATO military occupations around the world. They’ve found another supposed Al-Qaeda “treasure trove” of information, failed attacks, evil plans, etc. It reads like a
Continue readingLeftist Jab: Do NOT Toy With Marc Garneau!
Marc Garneau reads aloud his outrage as Dion and Bennett muster theirbest attempt at displaying interest for the parliamentary camera.Liberal MP David McGuinty just wants to go home already. Every now and again, the House of Commons deals with an issue that transcends party lines. Every MP puts partisan politics
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In today’s Sun: I was wrong – Harper hasn’t attempted to mess with abortion laws
Nearly one year after the election that finally saw them capture their much-desired parliamentary majority, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has become remarkable for being unremarkable. Apart from killing off the long-gun registry (which was promised), musing about changes to Old Age Security (which wasn’t), and handing out pink slips to
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: A Merger That’ll Never Happen
The left in the province of Alberta will never merge. There are four core reasons for this to be the case. Firstly, the NDP is directly tied, through its organization, its employees (many of whom who work for the federal NDP as well), and other means, cannot get the nod
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Shorter
Shorter Andrew Coyne: I’m shocked SHOCKED that the Liberals and NDP are not sufficiently outraged at what the Harper Conservatives are doing now. So what are they doing now? Well, here’s Bill 38: The bill runs to more than 420 pages. It amends some 60 different acts, repeals half a
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