Author: Owen Gray

                                                   http://www.gogobot.com/ Robin Sears wrote this week that, on the morning after the election, the atmosphere in Ottawa had changed: A senior First Nations leader, returning

                                                     https://www.cdh2a.com/ Monday’s election was historic. But the corporate media and its scribes are already trying to re-write history. Michael Harris writes: Nor is there much more of the historian in Paul Wells’ touching but mostly irrelevant comment that he still likes Harper, whom he believes will be seen by

                                                    http://www.abc.net.au/ The day after Justin Trudeau delivered his father’s eulogy, Stephen Harper — then head of the National Citizens Coalition — wrote a scathing

                                                  https://www.flickr.com/ It’s been a long time coming, this last day of the election campaign. And it’s been a campaign that covered a lot of ground

                                    https://www.chicagosummeroflearning.org/ It’s beginning to look like — after the smoke has cleared —  we will have a new and different government. Murray Dobbins writes that will mean we will get some kind

                                                       http://pdxretro.com/ For the last ten years, Stephen Harper has been trying to remake Canada in his own image. Alan Freeman writes that, despite his Herculean efforts, Harper has failed. Want the proof? Consider his Heritage  Department’s attempt to identify the ten most influential Canadians: Topping

                                                                                       http://www.tntmagazine.com/ There’s always a fire to be

                                               http://www.people-results.com/ Carol Goar has an interesting column in today’s Toronto Star. She writes that this election has held a mirror up to us and forced us to face some hard truths — some good, some not so good. Among the not so good is the notion

                                                        http://thelapine.ca/ I have suggested on several occasions that the ghost which lurks in Stephen Harper’s closet is Richard Nixon. But Marie Marguerite Sabongui, writing in The Guardian, suggests that the ghost which haunts Harperland is of more recent vintage — George W. Bush. She makes a compelling case. The

                                                http://cobb.typepad.com/ There’s one week to go. Stephen Harper has tried to make this election about the economy and terrorism. But — Tim Harper writes — in

The polls tell us that 70% of us want change — change as a counter weight to the change Stephen Harper has delivered in the past ten years. If you think not much has changed, Carol Goar reminds you of exactly what this prime minister has “accomplished:” A decade ago,

Making political predictions is always a risky business — particularly in this election, when the pools are all over the place. At the end of the last election, Peter C. Newman opined that the Liberal Party was dead. But, Chantal Hebert writes, Justin Trudeau will probably be the only leader