Before last night's debate began, most of the pundits were predicting that all of the other candidates would gang up on Justin Trudeau.And that he stood to lose the most in a province he needs to win if he hopes to hang on to his majority.But as soon as debate
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Accidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on the echoes of previous campaigns in Canada’s federal election – including the possibility that the 1972 minority government scenario might be the best outcome of all. For further reading…– The column’s discussion of public impressions of leaders is based on recent polling from Forum and Angus Reid –
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tom Rand and Mike Andrade point out that the Alberta tar sands wouldn’t be sustainable economically even if people ignored their environmental effects. Bruce Livesey offers a reminder that Andrew Scheer’s plans are built entirely around favouring dirty oil at the expense
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Doug Ford: The man who isn’t here.
We hear that premier Doug Ford is low bridging this federal election. It is at the begging of his friend Andrew Scheer. Conservative leader Scheer did not want to be upstaged by his provincial supporter. Scheer’s handlers have enough trouble convincing voters that ‘Chuckles’ is not just a tool for
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer, #Brokergate, and the Shame of the Con Media
Andrew Scheer is such a serial liar that I once designed a flashing light to place on his pointy nose, so he didn't take someone's eye out.But our shabby Con media never calls him a serial liar, and this latest big lie, this #brokergate, is no different. They made a huge fuss
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer And The Da Vinci Cons
He is without a doubt the most anti-gay political leader this country has ever known.A creepy religious fanatic who began his political career by working with an Alliance MP who wanted to re-criminalize homosexuality, and arrest LGBT Canadians.And has refused to apologize for comparing them to dogs.So you can imagine
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Suzanne Moore is encouraged that Greta Thunberg is challenging – and upsetting – a privileged male ruling class. Jennifer Ellen Good picks up on Thurberg’s theme that an obsession with growth at the expense of sustainability can only lead to disaster. And
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Random, contextless links about #elxn43 and #cdnpoli and punk rock
So. First day of October. Here’s bits and pieces, this and that: Ipsos says the Tories are ahead, and have been ahead since the start of the election campaign. Warren says they’re not ahead by nearly enough. After blackface, after LavScam, after Aga Khan, after Griswolds Go To India, after
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Death by a thousand tax cuts.
Canadian voters are being nickel-dimed and conned by their politicians. Even Elizabeth May and her greenies have joined into the game of making promises, with funds, from where, they do not really know. It is a game that voters should not buy. Let’s face facts: Sheer is no savior, Trudeau
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the #Brokergate Scandal
Andrew Scheer took Sunday off, no doubt to try to calm his shattered nerves. Discuss the state of the Con campaign with his ex-Rebel MiniMe Hamish Marshall.And of course, figure out what to say to the media, if or when they asked him to explain why he had once posed
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: From the “A lie is a lie is a lie!” Dep’t:
From the “A lie is a lie is a lie!” Dep’t: NOTE: There are better ways to beef up your resume w/o blatantly lying… FYI Jobs in Saskatchewan you cannot fake accreditation and/or operate w/o certification: police officer, security guard, private investigator, lawyer, doctor, nurse, electrician, plumber, carpenter, welder, crane
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Grace Blakeley writes that class politics are making a sorely-needed return, raising the prospect that people might again start to make gains against corporate forces: The reemergence of class politics is not a fad; it is a response to the material conditions created
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Andrew Scheer’s big National Energy Corridor idea sure sounds a lot like NEP 2.0
Now that we are in the midst of a closely fought federal election campaign, it’s interesting to see the Conservative Party of Canada is open at least to some of the ideas of prime minister Trudeau. I speak, of course, of prime minister Pierre Trudeau and the National Energy Program
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Who Is The Real Andrew Scheer And What Else Is He Hiding?
In just three weeks Andrew Scheer, who is leading in the polls, could become the new Prime Minister of Canada.And we still know so little about who he really is, and what he might do to our country.But now an article in the Globe has cast a little more light
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The Over-Analyzed Election.
It’s a circus on the hustings. It is like somebody tossed a cherry bomb into the outhouse. Everybody has an opinion to lay on you as to what is happening but not what will happen. There is more coverage every day from radio, television and daily newspapers. They tell you
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How Scheer’s Hate Mongers Are Poisoning Our Election
Ever since Andrew Scheer began driving his Con cult down the Far Right Road, I've always thought that his obsessive virulent hatred for Justin Trudeau would take this country to a very dark place. Where Canada would look a lot like Trump's America, and our precious values wouldn't stand a chance.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On private determinations
Paul Willcocks has previously pointed out why there’s reason for skepticism about Andrew Scheer’s attempt to play both sides as to whether or not the Cons will try to limit access to abortion. But it’s worth looking at a case study as to how the Harper Cons flouted any distinction
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Manfred Bienefeld writes about the gap between the urgent problems we face, and the sad excuses for policies on offer from the Libs and Cons as Canadians go to the polls. And Andrew Jackson discusses how little point there is to the tax
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer And The Death of Another Fake Scandal
As you know, I had high hopes that this story would finally expose Andrew Scheer as a nasty and dangerous religious bigot. So I was very disappointed when no other member of our shabby Con media asked Scheer a single question about it.For them it seems the fake scandal of Justin Trudeau
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