#bcpoli #ethnicgate #corrution @bcliberals Its pretty rich for Premier Christy Clark to claim ignorance in a scandal that has engulfed employees in her own Premier’s office…and very unlikely that she was clueless about the strategy to harvest the ethnic vote as if it was a crop in the field. Premier Clark
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Idle no more: support the causes, not the ‘organisation’
#idlenomore #cdnpoli #bcpoli #ndp #cpc As someone that prides himself as a social moderate and political progressive, the #idlenomore movement has been a bit of a struggle for me. Not because I don’t think that first nations’ Canadians grievances aren’t real – they are, but I am troubled by the
Continue readingObama wins a new term!
#gop #barackobama #mittromney #uspoli #cdnpoli #obamacare
Having a chance to digest the American Presidential elections, I am glad that American voters opted to stay the course and not venture into Romneyland politics and that of a dysfunctional Tea P…
Continue readingbut..politics DID play a role at the Colorado theater massacre.
When is the media going to talk about what everyone is thinking? That the increased radicalization of the far right in America is the main contributing factor in the domestic terrorism that America faces from time to time. Faced with the prospect of the re-election of liberal leaning Democratic President
Continue readingConservative war on ideas and the great leap backwards
#cpc #bcpoli #pmsharper #ndp #cdnpoli For those who think that American style ultra-stupid conservative politics would never come to Canada, brace yourself – its on its way. And I’m not just talking about Sun News network, dubbed as ‘Fox North’ by its critics – even if they do come close
Continue readingWhat if Thomas Mulcair was Jewish?
#cpc #ndp #tm4pm #cdnpoli Now that I have your attention.. The last two leaders of the Liberal Party of Canada were eviscerated by the Conservative Party attack machine as a way to define their new leader before the Liberals got a chance to define their own leader. So far, the
Continue readingEnbridge pipeline gets thumbs-down from B.C. NDP – British Columbia – CBC News
Enbridge pipeline gets thumbs-down from B.C. NDP – British Columbia – CBC News: ‘via Blog this’ Brilliant move by the NDP. It does a number of things: its makes the NDP the first of the governing parties to make an official stand on the pipeline project and puts pressure on
Continue readingMulcair is the right pick for NDP, Canada
#cdnpoli #ndp #tm4pm #thomasmulcair #lpc #gpc A lot of hand wringing is going on at several levels within the NDP about picking a former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister to lead the NDP. Some of the traditionalists warn that this is the drift of the party to the right that they
Continue readingIt is a war on women
#gop #rushlimbaugh #mittromney #ricksantorum Republican contenders for the nomination of their party claim that the spat over contraception has nothing to do with a ‘war on women’, but a battle against a big-government mandate to force religious affiliated institutions from providing contraception and other related products from heathcare plans of
Continue readingObama re-election could spawn increase in domestic terrorism
#gop #obama #terrorism I’ll just call it right now – if Obama is re-elected and the Democrats re-take congress, you will see a dramatic increase in far-right domestic terrorism. Unfair? True! Look for a dramatic large scale terror attack on the scale of Oklahoma City or worse. I say this
Continue readingGOP Culture war might win them an election
#gop #obama #politics #socialissues Watching the GOP nomination race unfold, I note that its taken a shift to the weird with the unexpected debate over contraception erupting over the news media of America. Or maybe its a brilliant strategy. Triggering a culture war is something that helps Republicans…and its not
Continue readingConservatives create problems, not solutions
#cpc #gop #lpc #ndp #cdnpoli #politics In the news; the appeals court in California overturned a ban on same sex marriage. This ban was a citizen inspired law triggered by the then legalized gay marriage laws in California. The court found essentially that rights, once given, cannot be taken away.
Continue readingAdrian Dix is a pleasant suprise
He wasn’t my first choice, but Adrian has won me over. I think that at the time, I was hoping for a Mike Farnworth victory for the NDP leadership when Carole James was ousted as leader. I was fearful that Dix would be smeared for his links to the 90’s
Continue readingCummins, BC Conservatives wrong on gas tax opposition
#bcpoli #bcndp #bcliberals #christyclark #adriandix
Upstart leader of the BC Conservatives, John Cummins is completely misguided on his and his party’s opposition to the 2 cent per litre gas. I understand that he is looking for a cheap wedge issue to …
Continue readingTopp is the wrong choice for NDP leader
Almost as soon as Brian Topp announced his candidacy for leader of the federal NDP, he stepped into the Conservative trap regarding electoral re-distribution.
Conservatives have been long advocates of an equal distribution of seats based on one formula…
Make Jack Layton’s legacy mean something
Jack Layton, federal NDP leader from 2003 until his passing yesterday, has rebuilt the party. Its a contender again just as it was under Ed Broadbent. Probably more of a contender as the NDP replaced the Liberals as the second party in Canada. But its …
Continue readingHST delimma
#hst #bcpoli #bcndp #bclib
So, we’re about to get our vote on the BC HST that was rudely dropped on the province. I have to admit that I am on the fence on the tax and I hate that fact.
I want to oppose the HST. I am just as furious about how former …
Continue readingAttacks on federal NDP come fast and furious
#cdnpoli #ndp #cpc #lpc #elxn42
As soon as it was clear that the NDP had ousted the Liberals as official opposition to the federal government in the House of Commons, the media decided that the NDP were the enemy of the people.
First, it was the atta…
Continue readingIts not going to work
#ndp #elxn41 #jacklayton #cpc #toronto
The recent smear on Jack Layton isn’t going to work. Remember Bill Clinton? His extra marital affair was used by his conservative enemies to undermine his office and tried to impeach him from office. Hardly a tre…
A few words about monetary policy
Liberal policy meant severe cuts to social program spending at the provincial level and massive provincial deficits to maintain programs, or punitive cuts. Also, liberals introduced us to bracket-creep tax increases that hurt anyone when they had an in…
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