Every Ontario Conservative is singing from the same Hymnal. “Close the Ontario College of Trades, close the Ontario College of Trades …. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.” Seemed strange to me because before they starting singing about it, I’d never heard anyone wanting to make this an election issue. I’ve been following Canada’s
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Pushed to the Left and Loving It: Beware of Those Bearing Pledges. They Might Just Have to Honour Them
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution. Sophocles Pledges are nothing new for politicians. Some are broad in scope, like FDR’s pledge to a New Deal for Americans, or President Obama’s pledge to not raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: And They Wonder Why More Women Don’t Get Into Politics
In an interview in 2012, Hilary Clinton was asked “Which designers do you prefer?” Her response was brilliant: “Would you ever ask a man that question?” Says journalist Mary Elizabeth Williams: That terse exchange over her wardrobe … exemplifies everything that endears Clinton to her supporters – and everything that
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Tim Hudak Wants to be Like Mitch Daniels. No Wonder. He’s Another Mike Harris
Indiana- Louise Cohoon was at home when her 80-year-old mother called in a panic from Terre Haute: The $97 monthly Medicaid payment she relied on to supplement her $600-a-month income had been cut without warning by a private company that had taken over the state’s welfare system. (1) Hold that
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Canada’s New Parliamentary Budget Officer Doesn’t Disappoint – Stephen Harper
After former Parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page locked horns with the Conservatives over their voodoo math, he was replaced by someone whose inexperience would be much easier to manipulate. Not that Jean-Denis Frechette isn’t a nice man, but as Michael Warren noted of his appointment, in the Star: … the
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Should Hudak Be Running on an Anti-Union Platform Before he Has His Hands on the Public Purse?
In 1999, Mike Harris ran in Ontario on an anti-union platform, promising to get tough with union bosses. The backlash was immediate, but Harris wasn’t worried. He had a secret weapon. Deceit. In the run-up to the election he had pulled out all the stops, beginning with advertising at the
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: I’m so Damn Sick of Junk Politics and Hopefully Trudeau is Too
There is a good book by Benjamin DeMott Junk Politics: Trashing of the American Mind DeMott laments the loss of intelligent debate in the political arena, being replaced, in part, with “touchy, feely personal testimonials” and “feel your pain” forced empathy. In the current Ontario election campaign we’ve heard party
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Death and Taxes. How Did We Get it So Wrong?
The old adage that nothing is certain but death and taxes, was first used by author Daniel Defoe, but in a different context. In his The Political History of the Devil (1726), Defoe dismisses the popular notion that the Devil has a cloven foot, or any other characteristic bestowed on
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Randy Hiller and Being Careful What you Wish For
We were in the Napanee area on Saturday and I noticed the Randy Hillier signs. Not a lot, but a few. Hillier is the Conservative incumbent for the riding of Lanark – Frontenac – Lennox and Addington. This riding was only created in 2003, so for the 2007 election, all
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Sorry Timmy. Been There Done That and the T-shirt was a Knock Off
On October 2, 1995, Tim Hudak stood up in the Ontario Legislature to make the following announcement: “I am delighted to relate to the assembly some very good news that has recently transpired in Stevensville, Ontario, home of the Tim Hudak Action Centre. Ronal Canada, a local manufacturer of
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: One Young Staffer is Not Enough
Conservative operative Michael Sona, is taking the fall for the voter suppression scandal and has resigned as a staffer. What the conservatives would like us to believe is that he acted alone. Give me a break. Sona, in the background during Ezra Levant’s sponsorship of Ann Coulter, is a product
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Why are we so Shocked to Learn that the Conservatives Stole the Election?
During the G20 in Toronto, when Canadian citizens were being arrested, beaten and shot with rubber bulletts, simply for engaging in their democratic right to protest, at Charles McVety’s Christian College, another event was taking place. With an election on the horizon, Harper’s point man to the Religious Right, was
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: If Maurizio Bevilacqua Wants to Clean up Vaughan I Know Where he Should Sweep
404 System Error, score another home run with their exposure of some questionable financing in Julian Fantino’s campaign. Seems Fantino is running two separate accounts, in a non-transparent fashion, one with a balance of $300,000. Why two accounts and why were the records of only one of the accounts presented to
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: If Stephen Harper Was Still a Libertarian he Would Hate Stephen Harper
There is a great site called 404 Systems Error, that functions much like Wikileaks, though with Canadian content. They have recently posted an old fundraising letter of Stephen Harper’s from 2001, when he was heading up the corporate funded activist group: the National Citizens Coalition. The NCC has always painted themselves
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Climate Change Deniers Get Caught With Their Carbons Down
Heartland Institute is an oil industry front group, devoted to dispelling the science of climate change. The bulk of their funding comes from Exxon and the Koch brothers. The same Koch brothers that Stephen Harper is using our tax dollars to build a pipeline for, so that they no longer have to
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: So What Does Larry Miller Think of Jason Kenney’s Hitler-Like Move?
‘Walking past the hundreds of stately Somali refugees lined up outside the gates of the UN High Commission for Refugees here in Nairobi — men in tidy shirts and slacks, women in baby blue, fuchsia or copper chadors — the pasty face of Jason Kenney floats into my mind. Later,
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: First Abortion Then Contraception or is it the Other Way Around?
Remember the Lil Rascals and their He-man Women Haters Club? Well they grew up and helped to launch the conservative movement. In the United States, in the 21st century, GOP presidential hopefuls, are now arguing over the legality of contraception. Can you imagine? Contraception? It’s being labelled a womens issue, but
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Larry Miller Needs to Stop Quoting the NRA and Ezra Levant Just Needs to STOP!
Last week, Conservative MP Larry Miller, compared support for the gun registry to Adolf Hitler and his apparent disarming of Germans. Most people were shocked but they shouldn’t have been. The NRA uses this argument all the time and before they pried the gun from his “cold, dead hands”, Charlton Heston
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Canada’s Environment Minister Warns of Danger of Climate Change
Peter Kent in 1984, before he got sucked into the bubble, that facts can’t penetrate.
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Not Everyone Can Graduate from the Charles Koch Institute
Ezra Levant, above, when he was running for the Canadian Alliance Party. After a heated battle, he stepped aside so that Stephen Harper could run in a safe riding, after being voted head of the Alliance Party. Close confidant of Jason Kenney and Stockwell Day (coined the term “Stockaholic”) Levant is
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