On the front page of the Toronto Star yesterday, there was a small headline suggesting that Jack Layton’s widow, Olivia Chow, might be a possibility as the next NDP leader.I think she would be a good choice. She’s urban and chic, and one of the more pr…
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Pushed to the Left and Loving It: The Canadian Manifesto 4: God’s Army of Child Soldiers
“There does come a time when force, even physical force, is appropriate. The Christian is not to take the law into his own hands and become a law unto himĀself. But when all avenues to flight and protest have closed, force in the defensive posture is …
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Who Said There Were no Longer Any Great Speeches?
“Let us not look behind us, let’s look forward, look at what we can accomplish together to make sure Jack’s voice is not silenced” Olivia ChowIn today’s world of sound bites and talking points, we rarely hear any great political speeches.But yesterday,…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: The Canadian Manifesto: 3. Religion Goes Corporate
Rick Warren is considered to be one of the most important Evangelical leaders in the United States. He turned the small Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, with a congregation of barely 200, into one of the largest mega churches in the countr…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Hatred as an Import/Export Business
On January 26 of this year, David Kato, a gay rights activist in Uganda, was bludgeoned to death with a hammer. Often the target of hatred, there was a renewed fierceness, when he won a court battle against a tabloid for publishing over 100 images of h…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Goodbye Jack Layton. You Will be Missed
Jack Layton passed away this morning, not shocking but terribly sad.He has been a central figure in federal politics for almost a decade.Despite my personal feelings, this man will be sorely missed. He fought the good fight in the House and in his per…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: The Canadian Manifesto: 2. "Signaling" For Good and Evil
Messaging and carefully crafted language, has always played a key role in the neoconservative movement. From Leo Strauss’s hidden dialogue [Plato] to Preston Manning’s calculated ambiguity, speech is used not to inspire, but to manipulate, ob…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: The Canadian Manifesto: 1. The Centre of the Universe
In 1933, a small group of religious leaders got together, via the post office, to establish a Humanist doctrine. According to Time Magazine (May 15, 1933):Humanism used to be a good subject for parlor and dinner table discussions. Few people knew what …
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: How Canadians Forced the Republicans to Miss the Bus
The Neocons South of the border, are in a flap … again.Not satisfied with bringing their country to the brink of collapse with their silly posturing over raising the debt ceiling, they are now attacking Obama for riding in a bus.Maybe it’s just that …
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Back to the Future as Canada Now Fights for King and Country
When Louis St. Laurent was acting as secretary of state for external affairs, he held a dinner party in honour of Ernest Bevin, then Great Britain’s foreign secretary. At the end of the meal, Bevin got up and made a speech, praising Canada for standing…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: The Canadian Manifesto: How the American Neocons Stole my Country
Maurice Vellacott’s administrative assistant, Timothy Bloedow, once accused me of hating Christians. This was in response to my criticism of his critique of Dr. John Stackhouse’s review of Marci McDonald’s book: The Armageddon Factor.
(Did you get all…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: When in Doubt, Blame the Poor
British Prime Minister, David Cameron, has responded to the rioting in London over his budget, by blaming parents and kids who live in social housing. He promises to evict, and allow landlords to evict these “criminals” to teach them a lesson.Across th…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Why Did Stephen Harper Lock Himself in the Bathroom in Brazil?
A Brazilian newspaper has reported that Stephen Harper locked himself in a bathroom in Brazil, until his hosts agreed to change the itinerary to suit him.The Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, has caused constraints in Brazilian diplomacy on Mon…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: So What Does a Communist Smell Like?
Just when you thought the neocons couldn’t get any nuttier, with Brian Lilley of Fox News North calling the Ottawa Press Gallery Communist sympathisers, and Tea Party’s Ben Shapiro believing that Sesame Street was a pinko indoctrination of children; To…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Has the Ottawa Press Gallery Joined Big Bird’s Red Army?
The late Dalton Camp, former president of the now defunct federal Progressive Conservative Party, tells a story in his book: Whose Country is This Anyway, of a group of young conservatives who had disrupted a speech by Jean Charest.Charest at the time,…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: The New anti-Abortionists: Young Political Activists or Youthful Vigilantes?
I Burned my Bra For This? REAL Women of Canada and the Men Behind ThemThe inspiration for the Moral Majority/Religious Right, in the United States, was the central government’s passing of anti-segregation laws. However, the art of political activism by…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Right-Wing Women and Their "Christian Values"
I Burned my Bra For This? REAL Women of Canada and the Men Behind ThemThe new women’s movement, operating within the neoconservative movement, is bizarre to say the least. They are vocal opponents of rights for women, and advocate for a patriarchal soc…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Will Canada Survive Another Recession?
News on the economic front is that we could be heading toward another financial crisis.Canada survived the last one, because of measures put in place by previous governments. Measures that would not have been there, if Harper had had his way when Leade…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: A Neocon Barbeque Cooks up a Plate of Ignorance
If you are wondering what Stevie is up to this summer, besides bombing for oil, wonder no more. He’s cooking up neocon burgers, hold the lettuce, with his buddy Rob Ford.I hope their insurance covers having both those men at the same event. Talk about …
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Sorry Ezra. He’s Not Just a Man in a Suit
While Ezra Levant and Sun Media “protest too much”, the links between the Harper government, the English Defense League and the international patriot movement, which includes the Tea Party Express, continue to mount.In the following Sun TV segment, Lev…
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