Author: bionicliberal

It’s a long weekend. Your life is waiting for you out there. Go and get it!

You often hear the term “Punch and Judy” politics. For those unfamiliar with the term, Punch and Judy is a singularly nasty and violent puppet show which became popular in England during the Puritan era of the 17th century when most other forms of entertainment were outlawed. From OldWoodToys.com: It’s

Not Thomas Mulcair. Nor any of the other politicians currently lobbing this political football back and forth. If you want to meet a politician who will engage in real debates and real conversations, the only person doing that consistently is Elizabeth May. We need real solutions not political posturing and

You can’t get rid of disease but people still try. You can’t get rid of prostitution but people still try. You can’t get rid of aging but people still try. You can’t get rid of drugs but people still try. You can’t get rid of crime but people still try.

If you’re wondering why recent antics by Harper’s Ministers of Fear are giving you a sick feeling of Déjà vu, there’s good reason. Everything old is new again apparently. These old dogs have learned no new tricks, they’ve just learned trickier new ways of selling their old ideas to a

I’ve had the thankless task lately of breaking some really bad news to my Conservative friends. Stephen Harper doesn’t love them anymore. This is something they find impossible to believe and when the truth of it sinks in, they go through all the stages of grief right before your eyes

The greatest threat to Canadian unity has, and always will be, political ambition. I don’t care what party you belong to, hands off my county. I will not not let any politician involve me in a partisan war against my country. I will not let politicians carve Canada up and

It’s interesting to note that the Canadian Media never called the NDP “dead” en masse when it sat at 20% in the polls. Sure, plenty of people wish for their political rivals to disappear. Lots of them cheered when the Progressive Conservatives went poof. Funny thing though, when a tree

Another day, another media moron writes an article like this. When I think about the future of Canadian Liberalism, I don’t look to the current upheaval in Greece or the demise of the old Progressive Conservatives. I look to the West and every other unlikely Liberal outpost all across this

  My Mother hates Mothers Day. Her assertion has always been that many of these so-called feel-good holidays are just constructs of card companies and retailers designed to make people part with their hard earned money. When we would come home from school with our Mothers Day crafts, remember the

My parents belong to the generation just before the baby boomers. They found themselves young parents in the midst of the turmoil of the sixties and while they yearned to be a part of that generation of change, they had to content themselves with watching the sixties unfold on television

In a recent Hill Times article, Martha Hall Findlay said she feared she would have no political home if the Liberal Party of Canada merged with the NDP and that a lot of Liberals she’d talked to felt the same. Many other Liberals have said a leader is needed to

Don’t worry kids. It’s all part of the plan. Stay tuned for the unveiling.

I’m not a Buddhist but I’ve discovered they do have a lot of good techniques to defeat the bad mojo in life. Partisan politics runs on a gas tank full of bad mojo. The Buddhists have some interesting concepts on how to deal with life’s badness. It’s a little like

If I’m really lucky, I’ve probably got about 30 years to help make it happen. If you want to get involved please visit Fair Vote Canada and sign the Declaration of Voters Rights. They’re hosting an event in Toronto on Saturday, May 26th to launch the Fair Vote Canada Action

Okay, okay, I know a bunch of you probably snorted coffee out of your nose when you read that but this is a “what if” exercise so just humour me a little. Insider intel on a Justin Trudeau run for the leadership varies daily so who knows, maybe he’s deep

It’s an oldie but a goodie. Mulcair is… wait for it… DANGEROUS with extra reverb. Sound familiar? It’s the old “we’re rubber and you’re glue” routine. Whatever progressives say about Harper bounces back and sticks to Mulcair. You can see this narrative forming in various conservative newspapers featuring photos of

Justin Trudeau sits down with Abid Virani to talk about various things, including the challenge of using politics to create change. Justin is an active supporter of Hope In The Fight, learn more about the charity at http://hopeinthefight.com.

“We’re sick of all our kicks. We’re sick of all the stiffs. We’re bored.” Canada’s Chattering Class seems to be dead set on talking about nothing else except a Justin Trudeau leadership run. I don’t know a single Liberal who is pushing this idea or talking about it with the

When I think about Pierre Trudeau’s leadership of the Liberal Party I also think about the team he had around him. A party isn’t led by one person and the strength of the elder Trudeau’s leadership can also be measured by the type of people he attracted to his team.