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 the…
Continue readingAuthor: Gabriel Dzsurdzsa
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 Stephe…
Continue readingKitchener Liberals maintain lead by a five percent margin in polls over local Tories
Despite the obnoxious debt clock parked outside John Milloy’s office in my local Kitchener-center riding and despite PC Stephen Woodworth’s best efforts at convincing Kitchener residents to vote for Tim Hudak’s “changebook” agenda, Liberals…
Continue readingHating 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…
Continue readingConservative Christie Blatchford thinks mourning for Layton to be a trivial matter, an exercise of tears in excess and an orgy of undue admiration
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 tod…
Continue readingThere’s plenty of Muslim discrimination in the U.S. but what about Canada?
Amidst the hectic rustle and bustle of tweets, Facebook conversations, blog posts and cafe debates on all things provincial politics, there is one topic that I almost forgot about.
It’s the topic of multiculturalism and racism in Canada. I was rem…
Continue readingWill the NDP opposition crumble now that Jack is no longer with us?
I awoke today thinking it was going to be a beautiful Monday, with plenty of free coffee at work, a hearty lunch after twelve and no crises to deal with during my shift. Boy was I wrong. I realized it was a chilly temperature for August as soon as I …
Continue readingRob Ford’s just asked his better, McGuinty, for a provincial allowance of at least 364 billion
We liberals like to repeat the mantra of a “big gaping hole” in the Ontario PCs provincial budget because it’s true. The Hudakites, if that’s even a word, do in fact promise to make plenty of cuts to public services but aren’t clear o…
Continue readingKitchener liberals on the move, local MP John Milloy opens Campaign Office
My Saturday began badly. While
running an errand, I had locked myself out of my car and left the keys in the
ignition. The engine was running and I had about thirty minutes to make it on
time for the grand opening of my local liberal MP’s electi…
Tories are in for a fight in Ontario. Latest Ipsos Reid poll shows 38% support for Hudak and 33% for McGuinty
There has been a general consensus among liberals, since the May 2 election debacle, that the party’s PR machine and recruiting mechanism need an extreme overhaul, a new vision and strategy through which the party can re-gain the attention of voter…
Continue readingLiberal party leaders need to engage in assisted suicide debate
Despite the fact that the election discourse is gravitating mostly around the economy here in Ontario, with the PCs and Liberals trading blows on who can manage money in better ways in the province, we, the foot soldiers and liberal campaigners need t…
Continue readingEuropean Jihadists and brothers in hatred; Anders Behring Breivik is the mirror image of Muslim fanatics
One can easily connect the dots and say that the Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik, the man that killed 68 young adults, teenagers and children at a Labor organized summer camp on the island of Utoya, is no different in ideology and in action fro…
Continue readingAmericans can’t seem to apply Greek style austerity measures to stave off default, while Republicans flush their country down the toilet
If I was in U.S. House Speaker John A. Boehner’s shoes I would have agreed to President Obama’s terms in raising the country’s debt ceiling.Why? Well I think it’s because the proposals which Mr. Obama presented to Mr. Boehner were actually very…
Continue readingBlowing things out of proportion on youth crime in Canada, the Tory way
As if dealing with Tim Hudak’s chain gangs in our communities won’t be enough in Ontario, us Ontarians and the rest of Canada will have to put up with a proposed bill, hysterically named Sebastien’s Law (Protecting the Public from Young Offenders…
Continue readingPalestinian unilateralism is a sign of desperation. However, PCs don’t think so
A little while ago there was an argument circulating in the left suggesting that the reason why there is so much extremism in Palestine, culminating with groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, is because of desperation; desperation driven by both Israeli tyr…
Continue readingTwo months into their election victory, Harper conservatives still gloating
Stephen Harper brazenly declared during his annual Calgary stampede BBQ that the Liberal era of political dominance is finally over.Sound familiar?Of course it does, as Harper and other conservatives throughout Canada have been incessantly gloating, si…
Continue readingCanada’s own Casey Anthony trial, except that this guy’s guilty beyond a reasonable doubt!
I thought it a travesty that no clear evidence to either exonerate or convict Casey Anthony was ever produced by the prosecution.
In a case that involved the death of a two year old girl, whom either drowned or was supposedly suffocated by her mother,…
What would questioning disguised pacifists accomplish anyway? The Gaza flotilla’s mission is a humanitarian mission first and foremost
Reading Christopher Hitchens’s article, titled “Some questions for the ‘activists’ aboard the Gaza flotilla”, in Tuesday’s edition of the National Post, almost got me to write a letter to Mr. Hitchens, the old fashioned way, to ask him the …
Continue readingCasey Anthony may not be guilty; however she has failed in her duties as a mother
Many observers are assuming that a verdict of not guilty, which took less than 11 hours to deliver by the grand jury in the Casey Anthony trial, was a correct and justifiable one. We also assume that those individuals charged with the keeping and deliv…
Continue readingYou’ve got to be kidding me, has DSK sexually assaulted any women at all?
I used to think that the PCs here in Canada were pretty ruthless, with their attack ads, sometimes social conservative policies and ridiculously crafted puritan image.
But not after seeing the rape scandal that Dominique Strauss Kahn has been subjected…