Author: MLM

Grant Humes is the Liberal Candidate in Durham. He is campaigning to unseat incumbent Bev Oda. Check out Grant’s newest campaign video: Grant Humes on the Campaign Trail from Lee Parsons on Vimeo. Please visit Grant’s website at www.granthumes….

This is an open letter from the Oshawa Federal Liberal Association to the community and the press in Durham Region and elsewhere regarding the Bev Oda situation.

Over at Scott’s blog he lays out a pretty good proposal for compromise between the Liberals and the NDP.

I won’t repost his suggested proposal here, but I recommend heading over and reading it for yourself.

IMO, if the NDP can’t live with supporting…

For a change from the political, I thought I’d talk about the film INCEPTION, which I saw last night with my wife. We both quite enjoyed it. *SPOILER ALERT* Avert you eyes if you don’t want to know what happens in the film INCEPTION. If you do, h…

The Harper government wants to axe the long-form census to facilitate social spending cuts by pointing to the inaccuracy of data being used by groups to justify their funding requests. All other discussions – about selection bias, Bernier invoking …

Stephen Harper is dead-set on killing the census for the same reason he is dead-set on undermining the tax base and spending us into oblivion on his own special interests. Without accurate and reliable census data, certain communities and groups who l…

There will be blood. Will there also be healing? We’ve seen lots of great data and analyses about Liberal and NDP supporters and how they feel about a coalition, merger, or non-compete pact. While much of it speculative, the evidence seems to indica…

It is the forth of May, also known as Star Wars Day. May the forth be with you.

I didn’t even realize this until today, but apparently this letter to the editor was published in the National Post on February 12. The text of the letter is below: ———- Re: Look Who’s Proroguing, editorial, Feb. 11. To suggest that the pro…

Here are a a couple of pictures I took on the Berrycam. Doing a quick count, I estimated that 130 – 150 people congregated outside of Colin Carrie’s office in downtown Oshawa.The overwhelming message? It seemed to me that there were a few.1. That the H…

The local paper, after publishing the Conservative talking points a ridiculous editorial offering lame excuses for prorogation, has published a number of letters in response. Here is a selection of exerpts from those letters:”I find it disgusting that …

Democracy diminished, accountability avoided.What a disgrace.

Stephen Harper is apparently considering a CARBON TAX! Even Tiger Woods couldn’t accomplish this much screwing.Thanks Harper!

So I guess Kelly McParland at the good old National Post thinks that a Thinker’s Conference is stupid. He also suggests, wrongly, that the conference will be “a big meeting to figure out what [the Liberal Party] believes in…”Meanwhile, in the world w…

In response to the dishonest hackjob drivel that passes for NDP attack documents these days (to which it is not even worth posting a link), the OLO has released the following:Michael Ignatieff argues against torture from 1987 – 2009Lesser Evil Lectur…

I’m sure that all of our MP’s, regardless of stripe, respect our armed forces and their contributions and sacrifices adequately. I’m also sure that our elected MP’s wouldn’t go out of their way to be intentionally disrespectful on Remembrance Day.Now I…

So appears to say the Conservative Health Minister, who blames the Harper government’s failure to provide a working vaccine plan on public panic.All of which begs the question:If the Harper government had spent nearly as much time and money on H1N1 as …

I’ve been reading The Pink Book Volume III, and an interesting comparison came to mind as I began considering the policy proposals in the Women’s Health and Safety section, specifically the items dealing with crime and related social policy.The compari…

Given that today is fixed election day (ooops!) here’s a Conservative cheque I think we’d all love to see. I guess the $300 million in election-related stimulus would really come in handy now.

For those who don’t know, Oshawa MP Colin Carrie doesn’t actually live in Oshawa in the conventional sense. He doesn’t even live in Durham. Or in the GTA. Or in Kawartha Lakes. Or in Peterborough. Or anywhere within a three hour drive of Oshawa. …