The Liberal Party National Convention is being held in Halifax starting this Thursday. It will pass policy resolutions and hold elections for positions within the Liberal Party Board of Directors. One of these is Liberal Party National Secretary. This position (and many others on the BOD) are open due to
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Scott's DiaTribes: New Blogsite URL – change your bookmarks for Scott’s Diatribes.
Just an administrative notice: I have changed my domain server after having been on canflag.com for basically a decade. I want to thank the owner of that domain for his longtime hosting of my site. The new URL address is going to be: http://scottdiatribes.ca — the old canflag.com site will
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: How to beat a Doug Ford led PC Party in Ontario.
The whole process was almost farcical at times, and it appears Christine Elliot still has it in her thought to perhaps contest the results in court, but for now, Doug Ford is the new PC Party of Ontario leader. In my opinion, the Ontario PC Party has just given the
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Conservatives fuming over Omar Khadr lawyer Federal Court appointment.
So this happenned: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s Liberal government has appointed one of Omar Khadr‘s former lawyers as a justice in federal court. The appointment of Toronto-based lawyer John Norris was announced by Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould Monday. Norris is also an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law and has worked with several legal
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Will gun control become the issue that puts the nails in the coffin of the Republican Party?
-Another school shooting. More needless deaths from a semi-automatic weapon. -An inane proposal from the President that teachers should be armed and that would stop all these deaths. – At the Conservative Political Active Conference (CPAC), the National Rifle Association spokespeople are even more unhinged and looney then normal (the
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Falling dominoes.
A flurry of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct allegations, and convictions for rape have dominated the political, sports and entertainment world of late. It may turn into a flood before its all over, but that’s good. For those found guilty, the sooner the filth is washed away, the better. It
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Conservative Christmas Grinch
A loyal reader of this blog sent me a picture of this. It’s apparently an insert that was put into a well known Conservative MP’s Christmas Card that this MP sent out. If anyone else saw or got this, you’ll know who the MP is. Our Conservative colleagues were well
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Andrew Scheer & the Conservative Party have to be nervous. The NDP as well.
A rather good night for the Liberal Party last night. They held all their seats, and were able to win away a seat from the Conservatives in Surrey, BC, which elected a Liberal as an MP there for the first time since 1952. The Conservatives under Andrew Scheer have now
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: New Brantford-Brant LPC EDA Board Elected; Getting ready for 2019.
I don’t comment a lot on local Liberal politics these days, but I will for this occasion. A new Liberal EDA Board was elected here in Brantford-Brant on Sunday November 26 – a campaign I volunteered for and participated heavily in for her team. This board will have 11 officers
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Combatting Discrimination/ Bias: Panel in Brantford featuring Mary Ng
If you’re in the Brantford area on Sunday Oct 15, and want to attend an interesting political and social discussion, consider coming Sunday Oct 15 to the Islamic Community Centre at 1pm to a panel discussing how to combat discrimination and implicit bias. Sponsored by the local Brantford-Brant Women’s Liberal
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Autumn Politics -provincial and federal
It’s been a while since I posted. Consider it as me taking a summer break – just like what the politicians do :). But, with Labour Day weekend here, things should start to pick up again. That doesn’t mean nothing has happened of course. Some things that have happened and
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: The Khadr file – justice finally served
As a long time follower of this case and someone who decried a couple of different Canadian governments refusing to speak up about the farce taking place at Guanatanamo Bay masquerading as actual legal proceedings, and ignoring both the Charte and international treaties with regards to child soldiers, I’m pleased
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: The Political BBQ Season begins
Parliament is now in summer recess.. so MP’s will be able to go home for awhile and spend time with their families and constituents.. kissing babies, going to BBQ’s and so forth. That doesn’t mean there won’t be any political activity. It is a fascinating bit of political theatre going
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Political Prediction For BC
The BC Liberals and Greens have been on far more friendly terms with each other – both personally and politically – then the NDP and the Greens. NDP supporters still are attacking Greens as robbing them of winning government when it in fact appears disaffected Liberal voters went to the
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Gender Equality Forum in Brantford – Ruby Sahota lead panellist
On Thursday, April 20, a gender equality forum is being held in Brantford. Special Guest MP Ruby Sahota and other Brantford-Brant community leaders will discuss how they defied the odds to succeed in their careers and what challenges and barriers still exist for women today. This is a free event;
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Meeting Iqra Khalid
It was a great pleasure and honour to be in Cambridge last night to hear Iqra Khalid speak. Ms. Khalid is the Liberal MP whose motion M-103 condemning anti-Islamaphobia as well as all other forms of racism, caused unnecessary consternation among most Conservative MP’s in their rush to appeal to
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Conservative Clown Show – Leadership Race.
It’s been interesting to watch the Conservative Party Leadership Race. It’s definitely more entertaining then the current NDP leadership race. There, the NDP has had trouble finding anyone to run, although the addition of Niki Ashton might liven things up a bit. A lack of candidates is, as you undoubtedly
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Conservative Pandering to the Alt-Right
A poll released earlier today says that about a quarter of those Canadians polled want a Donald Trump (attempted) type travel ban. This is who a large segment of the current Conservative Party leadership crop is pandering to. It’s why they endorsed an Anti-Islamaphobia motion by Tom Mulcair last Fall
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Electoral Reform abandonment potentially hurts LPC donations, volunteers
I’m going out on a limb to presume Electoral Reform will not be in the Liberal’s 2019 Platform? It is a bitter disappointment to not only the pro-electoral reform advocates in general, but to pro-electoral reform advocates within the Liberal Party (ie such as me, and to others in the
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Kudos to Trudeau for welcoming refugees.. now let’s do (a lot) more.
Lots of attention was paid to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeting out how refugees were welcome in Canada – many interpreted this to be a subtle jab at the odious Muslim / Refugees ban President Donald Trump imposed by Executive Order (except the Muslim countries he has business dealings with
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