If you guessed Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party, you are correct. While dear leader and company pull out all of the rhetorical stops about supporting the troops when it serves their ideological purpose, they are decidedly niggard when it comes to helping them when they are no longer fodder in distant
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Politics and its Discontents: Stephen Harper’s Pathological Hatred
While I stand by my comments about The Globe and Mail in my last post, the paper does have one real asset in the person of Lawrence Martin. Unlike other Globe employees who seem strangely constrained ideologically, Lawrence is consistently robust in his criticism of the Harper regime. Today’s column
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Globe and Mail Continues to Debase Itself
What little is left of the Globe’s reputation as a newspaper to be taken seriously has been unraveling rapidly in its non-coverage of the voter suppression crimes of the last federal election. Its editorial stance has essentially been one of convincing its readers that there really is nothing to see
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Glenn Greenwald To Speak in Ottawa
I received a note the other day from Bill Owen, who informed me that he is bringing well-known author and civil rights activist Glenn Greenwald to Ottawa on April 12 to speak at St. Paul’s University. To quote from the announcement, Glenn is recognized as one of the most influential
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Canada’s ‘Newspaper of Record" Continues Its Defense Of Harper
The Globe’s John Ibbitson says the Harper regime wasn’t behind the voter suppression crimes because, well, because Guy Giorno and Stephen Harper say they didn’t do it. Seems like it isn’t just the Conservative Party that has contempt for the intelligence of Canadians. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A New Tory Fantasy Excuse For Robocalls
He may not have anything else going for him, but at least Conservative backbencher Maurice Vellacott has a rich imagination. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More On Voter Suppression
The Globe has some interesting letters today on the voter suppression crimes of the last election. Of particular note is the first one, by an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, who attended a campaign school presentation in which instructors “made it clear that robo-calling and voter suppression were
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Words, Words, Words
And, I suspect empty ones at that as energy giant Enbridge Inc. denies any role in the Harper government’s cancellation of a grant from the Gordon and Betty Foundation to help fund public-private consultations into the economic use of the waters off British Columbia’s north coast. This cancellation occurred, by
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Voter Suppression – March 11 Toronto Protest
As I suspect is the case with most political bloggers, I offer commentary and provide links to important stories because I love my country and am very concerned about the direction in which it is heading. As well, I am deeply offended when abuse of political power occurs. And, like
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Are Canadians ‘Mad As Hell’ Over Voter Suppression Crimes?
Read a cross-section of opinion from the Star’s letters and decide for yourself. This one from the Guelph Mercury also merits scrutiny. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Harper’s Fondest Fantasy
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Star Exposes Another Harper Lie
More and more, people are seeing the bald mendacity of the Harper regime. Despite their claims of electoral probity and refusal to use U.S. firms in their campaigning, it turns out that 14 Conservative (will the claim be made that they were rogues?) did exactly that by signing on with
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Exactly How Dangerous Is Harper?
That is the title of a piece written by Gerald Caplan, in which he opines that the Harper Conservatives are like nothing Canada has ever seen before, a party that refuses to follow the customs and practices of past governments, a party that sees politics as a form of warfare
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Now This Is Getting Really Frightening
Despite the steadfast denials of Harper and his functionaries, along with the stalwart efforts of Dean Del Maestro at diverting public attention away from voter suppression crimes, Elections Canada reports that it has received over 31,000 complaints from Canadians reporting attempts to subvert their vote. Even the true believers who
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Nature to Harper Government: Let My People Go
One of the world’s leading scientific journals has criticized the federal government for policies that limit its scientists from speaking publicly about their research. The journal, Nature, says in an editorial in this week’s issue that it is time for the Canadian government to set its scientists free. Despite this
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Tory Strategy: I’ll Huff and I’ll Puff
… until I get my way. Judging by this story of conservative misbehaviour in Etobicoke Centre on election day, it’s not hard to figure out someone’s favorite bedtime story. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Lament For Ontario’s Capital
Oh, how the mighty have fallen … Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Bizarro World of the Harper Conservatives
When I was a lad (a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away), I was a devotee of Superman comics. There was something about the son of Kryton’s thirst for truth and justice that appealed to my boyish sensibilities. One of the components of the Superman universe was
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Nation’s Editorial Boards: Harper Voter Suppression Stonewalling Bad For Democracy
At least that seems to be the consensus at the following newspapers: The National Post The Vancouver Sun The Hamilton Spectator The Toronto Star The Calgary Herald The Lethbridge Herald The Ottawa Citizen The St. John’s Telegram And the list goes on, with one predictable exception, of course: The Toronto
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Today’s Star Editorial Cartoon
Works on more than one level, doesn’t it? Recommend this Post
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