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March 28, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Only Making Matters Worse

http://pumabydesign001.com As Canada prepares to enter the Syrian civil war, red flags are everywhere. The latest comes from Yemen. Tom Walkom writes: In Yemen, it’s hard to figure out who the good guys are. The Saudis and Egyptians back President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, the person they regard as

March 27, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Could It Be That He Miscalculated?

http://cobb.typepad.com/ Stephen Harper believes that Bill C-51 will help pave the way to his re-election. But polls indicate that support for the bill is

March 26, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: He Wants It Both Ways

https://www.pinterest.com/ When Stephen Harper rode into town almost ten years ago, he claimed that he was the new sheriff and he vowed to make Canadians feel

March 25, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: He’s A Doodle!

http://en.wikipedia.org/ Stephen Harper displays two of humanity’s ugliest traits — slander and stupidity. In the past, he made an effort to disguise those traits. But

March 24, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: One Of Harper’s Prime Directives

http://www.cpcml.ca/ Errol Mendes, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, wonders what will happen when judges start acting in secret.The old adage

March 23, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: The Moment Of Truth

http://www.dreamstime.com/ Justin Trudeau’s moment of truth is about to arrive. The Harperities have decided to extend and expand the mission in Iraq. Trudeau opposed the original mission. But, since then, he has supported Stephen Harper’s Bill C-51. Michael Harris writes: Justin Trudeau lent his party’s support to Bill C-51,

March 22, 2015 Owen Gray

You Can Trust Him — Until You Become Inconvenient

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March 21, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: The Future Is In Our Hands

http://www.cbc.ca/ There was a time, Murray Dobbins writes, when Canadians were highly engaged with their governments. We possessed a high

March 20, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: A Tale Told By An Idiotic Orwellian

http://the-mound-of-sound.blogspot.ca/ Remember when Stockwell Day used to lead the cabal which today passes for the Conservative Party of Canada? Those were the days when Day insisted that the St. Lawrence

March 19, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: A Game Of Inches

The upcoming election, Geoffrey Rafe Hall writes, will be about nasty, brutish and small things. That’s because Stephen Harper has nothing else to run on: Lacking evidence of either sound fiscal management or a healthy economy — and certainly having nothing to offer on the ‘change’ front — Stephen Harper

March 18, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Establishing His Bona Fides

http://en.wikipedia.org/ Last week, Jason Kenny claimed that Russian aircraft provoked HMCS Fredericton as it participated in a NATO exercise in the Black Sea. When the Ottawa Citizen asked DND for a comment, they refused to go near Kenny’s statement and referred the paper to NATO. Stewart

March 17, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Paranoia Unbound

Stephen Harper has always defended his abolition of the long gun registry by saying it prohibited farmers and hunters from using the tools of their trade. But last week, in Saskatoon, he said that Canadians needed guns to protect their castles: “My wife’s from a rural area and obviously gun

March 16, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Questions And Answers

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ Stephen Harper doesn’t like questions. He doesn’t take them. In Question Period, he dodges them. On tough days, he doesn’t show up. When things really get uncomfortable, he prorogues parliament and nobody shows up. But Mike Duffy’s trial starts in three weeks. Harper will not show

March 15, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Pitching To The Young

http://countylive.ca/ Justin Trudeau did Q and A sessions recently at the University of British Columbia and at McGill. He knows that there are lots of potential votes on campus. Jeffrey Simpson writes: Pollster Angus Reid’s latest survey on the matter gives the Liberals 34 per cent of

March 14, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Only One Answer For All Time

http://expertbeacon.com/ Neo-Liberals have been preaching the same message for over thirty years: Debt — all debt — is bad. And they have relied on a well worn analogy. Public debt, they say, is like household debt. But, Scott Clark and Peter DeVries write: We’ve said it before and we’re

March 13, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: The Garbage Keeps Piling Up

http://newsfeed.time.com/ Mike Duffy’s trial starts in three weeks. And wouldn’t you know it? Nigel’s Wright’s name is back in the news — not for his role

March 12, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: All Hat, No Cattle

http://quoteimg.com/ Chris Westdal, former Canadian ambassador to Russia, is not impressed by Stephen Harper: I thought leaders in times of crisis were expected to keep calm and carry on, maintaining stiff upper lips and carrying sticks bigger than their tongues. Not our guy. He mongers fear across the land

March 11, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Old And Ugly

http://cms.asce.org/ Justin Trudeau is beginning to sound like his father. Michael Den Tant writes: Monday evening in Toronto, Justin Trudeau delivered a 40-minute speech in which he attempted to provide a coherent, internally consistent philosophical frame for all his future policies and decisions.

March 10, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: A Pathetic Failure

A lot of electronic ink has been spilled of late on the subject of Bill C-51. And the effort has been called for. But the irony of all that spent energy is that it is working in Stephen Harper’s favour. The prime minister used to burnish his credentials as an

March 9, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Sometimes Wisdom Comes With Age

http://thetyee.ca/ The conventional wisdom holds that Stephen Harper’s base is old and intellectually lazy. I suspect that’s true. But we need be