I’m firmly entrenched now in blogging headquarters for the Ontario Liberal Party convention. I’ll be spending the greatest part of my time uploading pictures to the Progressive Bloggers main site, and offering witty commentary on Twitter and on this blog. For my initial thoughts – we have two strong front
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The Progressive Right: Ontario Liberal Leadership Convention 2013 Coverage (#olpldr)
I will be attending the Ontario Liberal leadership convention as an accredited blogger. You can follow my coverage here, on Twitter (@progright), and on Google+. I’ll also work out something with Scott about streaming coverage via Progressive Bloggers. Full disclosure, I stood as a Sandra Pupatello delegate, but did not
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Kathleen Wynne, Blogging Teleconference Call (#olpldr)
Tonight, Kathleen Wynne, candidate for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party, held a conference call for Liberal bloggers. It was a great opportunity for us to hear directly from Kathleen. Several bloggers attended – the ones I remember right now – Scott Tribe (Scott’s DiaTribes) and Kyle Hutton (Blunt
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Cheaper Keggers Under Tim Hudak? #onpoli
The University of Ottawa Conservatives are notably excited by the prospect of buying cheaper booze in Ontario. I’ve noticed one other university student tweet touting the benefits of cheaper alcohol in Ontario if students vote for Tim Hudak’s Conservatives. Cheap alcohol is one way to motivate youth to vote. I’m
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: The Progressive Right (and Rabble) Anger Sun News! #topoli
Alex Pierson, Sun News morning anchor, links to a story on Rabble calling for today’s Grey Cup to be used as a “farewell” parade to Rob Ford. Naturally, she’s angry. I do think that is a witty graphic. You can read the Rabble article here.
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Sandra Pupatello for Premier #olpldr #onpoli
I support Sandra Pupatello as leader of the Ontario Liberal Party and to be the next Premier of Ontario. The challenge for an Ontario Liberal with this race is there are so many qualified candidates with a varied set of positions, experiences and attributes. The ultimate tipping point for me
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Justin Trudeau in Port Perry #lpcldr
Just back from Port Perry where I got a chance to see Justin Trudeau speak on behalf of his leadership campaign and on behalf of Grant Humes, the Durham Liberal candidate for the November 26th by-election. Some highlights of the stop. Justin started off with a little humour by launching
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Yes, the Manning Centre is a Registered Charity … Still
A Mennonite magazine, ‘Canadian Mennonite’, has received a warning from the Canadian Revenue Agency, about what articles and editorials it can publish, citing their pieces “appear to promote opposition to a political party, or to candidates for public office”. That’s a no-no under the rules for maintaining registered charity status. Meanwhile,
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: One Public School System
I had an opportunity to argue with someone via Twitter with regards to funding of the Catholic school system in Ontario. I took exception with her assertion that it was atheists pushing for it’s dismantling, and that it was atheists who were bullying Catholics for having the desire to maintain a
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Karen Stintz on Tim Hudak’s Transit Credentials
Karen Stintz, Chair of the Toronto Transit Commission, on Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak`s credentials on the transit file. Mr. Hudak has some experience with the TTC, its infrastructure delays and its funding, from his time in [Ontario Progressive Conservative] caucus in 1995. Tough decisions were made then. Those
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Conservative Party Continues to Fail Fiscal Conservatives
I’m sure there are Conservative Party apologists out there ready to jump all over these stories, but the fact remains the Conservative Party continues to fail fiscal conservatives in Canada, and they’ll vote Liberal in 2015. Treasury Board boss spars with budget watchdog over mandate, Globe & Mail. Though the Conservatives
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: I Support Justin Trudeau
I support Justin Trudeau for leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. For the record, this will be my second* Liberal leadership campaign as a federal Liberal. You’re going to hear a lot from the commentariat that Justin’s too young, that he’s too inexperienced, that he’s too whatever. What Canada
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: The Trials and Tribulations of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford
There are times where I just feel sorry for him.
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Maxime Bernier Photo
Does “cliché” mean the same in French as it does in English? If so, perhaps this is an unfortunate photograph of Maxime Bernier, the MP for Beauce.
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Dystopia Decision Tree
Via Blastr, we have a decision tree to help determine if your sci-fi society is a dystopia. Interestingly enough, I think it’s useful for determine if your current society is dystopian. Cough … Harper Conservatives … cough.
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Mexico Subway Flu Ice
Just testing a theory. Yahoo! News, Don’t say ‘flu’ or ‘subway’ online if you want to avoid Homeland Security The list of words used by [Homeland Security] to monitor online activity for signs of terrorism or threats against the U.S. has been made publicly available. There are plenty of words on the
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Restaurants Should List Allergens
Kudos to Ontario’s NDP for this, but it’s not enough to force chain restaurants to simply list caloric content with their menu items. All restaurants (chain, small, fancy and otherwise) should be required to list the complete nutritional information for their items readily. That’s reasonable. Equally important to publishing the nutritional ingredients,
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Whip the Vote, Mr. Rae (#lpc #prochoice)
Citation: R. v. Morgentaler, [1988] 1 S.C.R. 30 Date: January 28, 1988 State interference with bodily integrity and serious state-imposed psychological stress, at least in the criminal law context, constitutes a breach of security of the person. … Liberty in a free and democratic society does not require the state
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: The Manning Centre is Still a Registered Charity
Ethical Oil has written a letter to the Canada Revenue Agency to review the David Suzuki Foundation’s charitable status because, they allege, the Suzuki Foundation is a partisan political organization. I won’t link to it because I don’t want to. The National Post and the Toronto Sun are also carrying
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