I really liked the swearing in of Justin Trudeau's new cabinet. I thought the prime minister looked rested and ready to take on the Con separatists.I was impressed that both Jim Carr and Dominic LeBlanc made it to the ceremony even though both are being treated for cancer.And I really
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Montreal Simon: Will Jason Kenney Finish Off Andrew Scheer?
In my last post I looked at how the Jason Kenney is assaulting Alberta's democracy, acting like a dictator, and making Alberta look like a banana or bitumen republic.Going after those who would dare defy Big Oil, or dare investigate his corrupt government.And even making plans to replace the RCMP, that
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The Day of the Blacksmith.
We might be just one of many commentators trying to fathom the actions of Alberta’s premier. The other day, the province’s main apologist, Gillian Steward, reported in the Toronto Star that premier Jason Kenney’s threats to take Alberta and run away from home were getting louder every day. What amuses
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer And The Curse Of The Religious Fanatics
I wish I could have been there when Hamish Marshall told Andrew Scheer that he was not going to win the election after all.But was going to be humiliated by Justin Trudeau.But then you can't have everything, and at least the humiliation continues.For this is ridiculous.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Justin Trudeau and the Con Babies
It couldn’t have been easy for Andrew Scheer to meet with the man he had demonized for so long, but still managed to defeat him. And the more Justin Trudeau smiled, the more humiliating it must have been.Although it couldn’t have been that enjoyable for Trudeau. He may have forced
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Now do the decent thing.
Green leader Elizabeth May did the right thing. The other major party leaders, Scheer, Singh and Trudeau should follow. None completed the recent election with honour. Scheer won the popular vote and lost the election. Singh lost ground for the new democrats. Trudeau lost the West but won Ontario and
Continue readingAlberta Politics: It turns out the UCP’s dream of grabbing the Canada Pension Plan won’t be as easy as it would like you to believe
How much of the United Conservative Party’s radical project to transform Alberta into a dystopic firewalled statelet, most of the details of which were revealed by Premier Jason Kenney for the first time at Preston Manning’s Red Deer clambake on Saturday, was predicated on a Conservative victory in last month’s
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Will the UCP’s scheme to restrict reproductive rights play in Ponoka? Maybe not …
Bill 207, which if it was honestly titled would have been called an Act to Restrict Reproductive and Other Rights in Alberta, does not seem to be playing particularly well, even in Ponoka. Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party stirred up a hornet’s nest with this sneaky bill — disingenuously entitled
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Media Finally Goes After Andrew Scheer
In one of my last posts I wrote about Andrew Scheer's bizarre performance after emerging from a bruising seven-hour caucus meeting.And how he tried to convince us that his Cons were united, and that he was really a winner not a loser.Which didn't really surprise me. They don't call him a serial
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rex Murphy and the Religious Bigotry of Andrew Scheer
It's now been quite a few years since the hideous Rex Murphy regularly disgraced the CBC's flagship news program The National, with his reactionary views and his Big Oil propaganda.But Murphy is still around, still pimping for the tar sands, still going after Justin Trudeau as only a rabid Con
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The Liberals had a caucus meeting, too
It happened yesterday. You didn’t hear much about it, because all the drama had happened the day before, with the seven-hour-long Conservative mass-suicide disguised as a caucus meeting. The Liberal caucus meeting was a happier affair. For one thing, the newbies – and Trudeau has a lot of them in
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer And The Con Road To Ruin
It was Andrew Scheer's first meeting with his caucus since his election night defeat, and it went on for almost seven hours.So I'm sure many people waiting outside must have thought that Scheer was flogging himself like a good Opus Dei groupie, and promising real change.But if they were thinking that,
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: A seven-hour caucus meeting creates seven big problems
The Conservative caucus met on Parliament Hill yesterday. Watching them from afar, it recalled a big therapy session. But without a therapist in charge. It went for seven hours, reportedly. That’s a long caucus meeting. At the end of those seven hours, seven big problems remain. They did not dump
Continue readingAlberta Politics: The ‘most pro-life Legislature in decades’ gets ready to make its first move to restrict reproductive rights
Does anyone recall when Cameron Wilson, political action director of the “Wilberforce Project,” previously known as Pro-Life Alberta, bragged that “if the UCP wins the upcoming election, then we will have the most pro-life Legislature in decades, and maybe ever”? That was only in February this year, a century or
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: A failure in leadership.
If conservative leader Andrew Scheer is looking for compassion, he is looking in the wrong places. There is no succor for losers in Toronto’s Albany club. Long the King Street hangout of the rich and famous of Canadian conservatism, there is no compassion there for someone rejected by the voters
Continue readingThe Daveberta Podcast: Episode 43: The UCP’s pick-a-fight budget
David Climenhaga from AlbertaPolitics.ca joins Dave and Adam on this episode of the Daveberta Podcast to discuss the cuts in Alberta’s provincial budget and the United Conservative Party’s growing list of public enemies, the federal election fallout in Alberta, and how the mainstream media is reporting on the Wexit group
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: God, gays and Scheer
I wrote this some time ago – you know, during that period when I was secretly running the CPC campaign. (More seriously, I was reminded of it by this. Kory is right.) The bar isn’t much to look at. It’s on the tougher side of downtown, in a place where
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer’s Most Horrible Halloween
I wonder if Andrew Scheer will be dressing up for Halloween tonight, as he has done before.Although the way he looks these days is probably scary enough.AAAAARGH.But what I think it's fairly safe to say, is that he won't be running the same Halloween greeting he ran last year.Read more
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Justin Fox writes that there are plenty of options available to push for the wealthiest few to pay their fair share toward a functional and compassionate society. And Christine Berry discusses the need for a progressive plan of attack to fundamentally restructure
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