Photo courtesy of National Post Canada, URL http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/name.jpg?w=620 There are plenty of things to worry about here in Canada, the economy, jobs, family, security, how to put food on the table etc.Cross-border human smuggling is actually at the bottom of the list, probably the least of our concerns. But not
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A dislike of Islam and muslims, most prominent amongst conservatives?
Photo courtesy of the National Post, URL http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/10/26/tasha-kheiriddin-arab-spring-leads-to-shariah-autumn/I have to begin by saying that I have no conclusive evidence that shows that disike of Islam and muslims in gen…
Continue readingTories conclude that gun licensing is unnecessary in its entirety
Photo courtesy of the National Post, URL http://nationalpostcomment.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/scattergun.jpg?w=620As Bill C-19 is slated for an inevitable approval in Parliament due to the Tory majority Harper has achieved in the last federal electio…
Continue readingFrank Klees, not Andrea Horwath, is the kingmaker
Photo courtesy of the National Post, URL http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/pjt-klees-5.jpg?w=620 During the heated Ontario provincial election, many were speculating that if there was to be such a thing as a Liberal minority governmen…
Continue readingSpending money on patriotism initiatives isn’t a bad idea, but Tories are doing it half-assed
Photo courtesy of the Huffington Post Canada. URL http://i.huffpost.com/gen/375296/thumbs/r-HARPER-large570.jpg There are many things that the conservative Harper government is currently doing that get on my nerves. The introduction of the wo…
Continue readingDefining hate speech tough job for Supreme Court of Canada in Bill Whatcott case
Photo courtesy of the National Post. URL http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/1012-whatcott.jpg?w=620 I have personally never met Bill Whatcott, nor have I seen him talk in front of a camera, so it would be impossible for me to…
Continue readingFor liberals, to rebuild means to re-conquer Ontario
If there is anything I have learned in my brief time participating in local politics, volunteering for my local candidate and following both the provincial and federal liberals, is that being the underdogs will never phase a party that has repres…
Continue readingLiberal incumbent for Kitchener-Center, John Milloy, shines in local all candidates debate
Video streaming by UstreamThe Waterloo Record, our local newspaper, hosted an all candidates debate for the Kitchener, Waterloo, Conestoga and Cambridge voting districts this past week. Yesterday, it was the candidates from Kitchener-C…
Continue readingMost Canadians see Western and Islamic societies as incompatible
On top of a clear trend in increased discrimination against Muslims in the country over the past ten years, Canadians now also think that Islam and western values are irreconcilable.According to a recent survey by Leger Marketing, commissioned by the A…
Continue readingNational Post columnist David Frum joins the anti green economy conservative chorus
The truth of finding new renewable energy sources and building the societies and economies of the future around harvesting and processing them cannot be denied. In other words, we evolve as a species technologically or we die. It’s also a fact that o…
Continue readingDraconian measures may be a bit too much, but will Harper’s new crime omnibus bill really make …
It is true, according to a recent memo sent out to the Conservative caucus by the Prime Minister’s office, that there have been over 2 million crimes reported in Canada last year, of which 440,000 have been violent crimes. Unfortunately, the above in c…
Continue readingJohn Milloy official campaign kick-off was a blast
Kitchener-Center Liberals gathered on Saturday morning to
celebrate the official launch of MP John Milloy’s campaign for re-election.
As I entered the office, Mr. Milloy’s staff and the solid
number of volunteers that were present were handing…
The PCs may not be a fully Tea Partyesque group, but there are some similarities
John Ivison from the National Post
recently wrote a column calling out Liberal interim leader Bob Rae on
his comparison of the Harper Progressive Conservatives to American Tea
Partiers.
Bob
Rae initially said that there can be no doubt that Step…
Canvassing with Kitchener Center Liberals on Labour Day, the best way to get to know my local …
I have been told many times, during countless conversations,
that politicians can never be trusted, that they are in some sense different
than common folk, different than average Canadians.
Unfortunately, this train of thought almost always ends i…
Continue readingEverybody panic, the OLP platform has just been leaked
First
off, I would like to say: Big deal! So the liberal platform has been
leaked by probably a conservative mole or some Julian Assange fan boy,
but who really thinks that this will make people have second doubts
about whom they will vote for in t…
Kitchener-Center Liberals maintain lead by a five percent margin in seat projections over local …
Despite
the obnoxious debt clock parked outside John Milloy’s office in my
local Kitchener-center riding and despite the local PC candidate Dave
MacDonald’s best efforts at convincing Kitchener residents to vote for
Tim Hudak’s “changebook”…
Hating the rich because they’re rich, an immature perspective and a dangerous approach to justice
I
remember asking one of my co-workers back in 2009 the question: If you
were ever a part of a jury in two trials against men that have committed
the same type of crime, with one man being wealthy, having grown up in a
privileged household, and the…
Conservative Christie Blatchford thinks mourning for Layton to be a trivial matter, an exercise …
Bet
on Conservatives to always go against the crowd, trying to demonstrate
originality but always doing so in the most egregious way, and you’ll
never be disappointed. And
this was the case with one of the National Post Full Comment columns
for …