I refuse to believe that the people of Alberta are as socially conservative and right wing as their political representation suggests. I do not believe that the people of Alberta would take away a woman’s right to control her body, or is genuinely oppo…
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Quebec voters to break separatist deadlock?
It seems that Quebec voters are warming up to the idea of voting NDP. It was only a matter of time before voters there would tire of separatist parties and would tire of wasting their vote for a party that could never govern or have a meaningful role i…
Continue readingStalemate on the left cannot continue
Canada is a progressive nation but our progressive voters are fractured between three parties. As long as this imagined conflict is allowed to continue, the minority conservatives will govern us.
Continue readingWhy do leftists alight with the far right?
It baffles me to no end why activists who pretend to be on the left, back parties and organisations that are clearly right wing, even fascist. For example, in Canada, we have a very active left wing that aligns itself with Hamas, the Palestinian organi…
Continue readingPeter Kelly thinks you should join Groupon
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Continue readingNDP dodges a bullet, but not out of the woods
The NDP was lucky not to have faced Dianne Watts as a prospective BC Liberal party leader. She and Carole Taylor declined the opportunity to run for leadership of the party. Unfortunate for party planners and strategists, because those two ladies were …
Continue readingBC Liberals outraged that NDP supporters might participate in recall campaigns
My first response is “so what?!”
Remember the then activist, Kevin Falcon, as part of a so-called grassroots movement to unseat a number of NDP MLA’s in 1997? He was one of the ring leaders behind the recall efforts in 1997 and eventually became a pow…
Continue readingThe NDP might win, but…
The NDP under Carole James is poised for a landslide election at this moment. But there is another 3 years to go before the vote. A lot can happen between then and now.
Its a perfect storm for the party, the governing BC Liberals are mired in scandal…
Continue readingBC Liberals outflank NDP on HST – get their Mojo back
That’s what I said. The Liberals out manoeuvred the NDP by tricking the NDP MLA’s to support the notion of the province-wide referendum in 2011. In one fell swoop, the Liberals moved the HST off the front burner and upstaged the NDP. By moving to a…
Continue readingOpen letter to the NDP
Given the state of affairs in BC right now, if I was a betting man, I’d bet on the NDP not just winning the next election, but betting the BC Liberals lose official party status too. The next BC legislature would probably have a landslide NDP governm…
Continue readingIn defense of conservatism
I used to abhor conservative politicians and their policies. I thought, ‘how could any reasonable person vote for these nut-jobs?’
But what are conservatives? Most of them are actual conservatives that are upset with a generally Liberal slant on wester…
BC Liberal conspiracy to defraud BC voters – AGAIN!
Call me cynical, but MLA Blair Lekstrom’s exit from the BC Liberal caucus seems hardly genuine, possibly part of a carefully planned production that at its conclusion will see Premier Campbell exit government. In my view, he may have scripted his own e…
Continue readingMerger talk: Liberal dream to absorb NDP
The recent talk of ‘talk’ of a merger in the works between the NDP and Federal Liberals is pure fantasy – even if it were true. Members of both parties would never stand for it.
This is nothing like the ‘unite the right’ movement in the 90’s after the …
Consolidation is the future for public services
The more I think about it, the more it makes sense to have one central office for payroll and administrative duties for our education system. It can be done; larger employers have one central office that gets these tasks done, why not teachers too? Th…
Continue readingNDP need to make a definitive stand on the HST
The pro and anti-hst forces are out in force. The BC Liberal government is out there defending its new tax, its supporters have hit the bloggosphere/newspapers, etc while the Anti-HST petition gatherers and protesters have made their voices perfectly c…
Continue readingOil spill changes everything – CNN.com
Oil spill changes everything – CNN.comI wonder if the BC Liberal government is still as gung-ho about offshore exploration and drilling on the pacific coast. True, the risk of a hurricane is almost non-existent here, but we have earthquakes to be conce…
Continue readingCBC News – World – Anger mounts over Greece’s austerity plan
CBC News – World – Anger mounts over Greece’s austerity planThis is unfair, yes…but necessary. Get used to it as well. Well meaning welfare state programs that are largely hold-overs from the end of the last world war are too generous to be supported…
Continue readingLeft Coast Rant 2010-04-29 16:13:00
Drinking and Driving changes
BC unveiled changes to drinking and driving laws and they seem like the right thing to do. They change the acceptable blood-alcohol content to .05% from .08%. This means to most average people, one drink makes you legally i…
Special prosecutor approves impaired-driving charges against MLA Thornthwaite
Special prosecutor approves impaired-driving charges against MLA ThornthwaiteReally, Premier Campbell? People shouldn’t drink and drive? A little late for you to realize that too. Your MLA should resign – and show the leadership you are sorely lacking.
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Now I wonder if this BC Liberal MLA will resign her seat and trigger a bi-election? That would be a good fight.Local News Story
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