This and that for your Sunday reading. – Stephen Maher writes that Michael Cooper’s choice to give voice to the Christchurch shooter’s manifesto represents a test of Andrew Scheer’s willingness to take action to match his words. And Scheer’s choice to quietly shuffle Cooper out of a single committee assignment
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Montreal Simon: The Fake Rebranding of Andrew Scheer and his Cons
As you may have noticed, Andrew Scheer has been trying to remake the image of him and his Cons.Trying to convince Canadians that he's really a nice guy.Not the man commonly known as Schmearmonger, the depraved leader of the most bigoted party in modern Canadian history.But unfortunately for Schmear, his
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: ‘None of the Above’ is not an option.
There seems to be some disquiet across this fair land over our lack of good choices in the looming federal election. And whose fault is that? Frankly, Canadians have been encouraging mediocrity in politics for far too long. We have been trashing our political parties. We have been lying to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day The Cons Lost The Abortion Battle
Ever since he became Con leader I have been warning that Andrew Scheer is a political leader unlike any this country has ever known.Warning that he is a scary religious fanatic who does not believe in a woman's right to control her own body, and that his anti-choice views are so
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Is Alberta’s ‘Yes to TMX’ campaign a sly tax-funded attack on the Trudeau Liberals?
Things are certainly different on the pipeline front now that Jason Kenney and his United Conservative Party are in power in Alberta! Yesterday, the airwaves were full of reports Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage had announced an advertising campaign urging Parliamentarians to say “Yes to TMX.” (We’ll get back to
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: JWR is vindicated, again
There is enough evidence against SNC-Lavalin for the engineering corporation to be tried on fraud and bribery charges, a Quebec court judge has ruled. SNC-Lavalin spent months lobbying the federal government to avoid finding itself in this position. It hoped to use a new legal mechanism — a deferred prosecution
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: Scheer, Trudeau and racism
When everyone is a Nazi, no one is a Nazi. When you falsely insinuate your principal opponent is a Klansman – as Justin Trudeau’s party has done, repeatedly and recklessly, with Andrew Scheer – it fosters cynicism and disbelief. Most of all – and I say this as someone who
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Profiling politicians.
It is often amusing in the popular American TV program Criminal Minds when one of the actors, playing the part of an FBI agent, without much script support, out of the blue, says it is time to deliver the profile. They remind me very much of how our political commentators
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Not So Great Economist Leader
Who can forget how Stephen Harper tried to fool us, or brainwash us, into believing that he was a Great Economist Leader.And how it all ended in dismal failure. But now Andrew Scheer is trying to make us believe that he too can be a Great Economist Leader.And he's also heading for
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Copp out
In one of my books, The War Room, I have a chapter called the Scandal Handle Manual. Here’s a bit of it: None of us Chrétienites hated Martin or Gomery, particularly, but nor did we like them all that much either. Still, every once in a while, I would get
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Ignoring Bernier is bad advice.
It amuses me that people are telling Andrew ‘Chuckles’ Scheer that former conservative MP Maxime Bernier is not a problem. That is bad advice. First of all, you have to ignore the pollsters who are having trouble measuring Bernier’s support. And then you have to understand the people who would
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Sarah O’Connor examines how the future of work may echo past practices – including a misleading picture of wages for gig work which is assumed to be more stable than is actually the case. And Astra Taylor discusses how socialism is growing in
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Scheer would do better if he shut up.
Sure, it is almost five months until the federal election but everyone is out stumping anyway. You would swear that the election was in June and everyone is getting desperate. But there is no excuse possible for the blather we are getting from the conservatives. Who told conservative leader Andrew
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Jason Kenney fiddles (with climate policy) while Alberta burns
It is an irony, though not a particularly satisfying one to observe, that while Premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party Government moves swiftly to repeal Alberta’s carbon tax, the province is aflame, with more than 5,000 Albertans required to leave homes and communities in imminent danger of destruction. It is
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Will Doug Ford Cost Andrew Scheer’s Cons the Next Election?
When Doug Ford became the premier of Ontario, Andrew Scheer was so excited he treated him like his new best friend forever.It was going to be the Great Alliance, with the two Cons vowing to work together to defeat Justin Trudeau and his satanic carbon tax.And Scheer seemed to believe
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Choosing Chuckles for Canadians?
Of all the ridiculous strategies for the coming federal election! Why should the liberals attack the conservatives when their real opposition in the October election is themselves? To waste time attacking conservative leader and Saskatchewan MP Andrew Scheer is assuming that he concerns Canadians. He never has been the problem.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On defining images
I’ve previously linked to Doug Cuthand’s column on the climate obstructionists who are endangering our future. But I’d think it’s worth putting his most powerful conclusion in a form which better connects the perpetrators to the problem. And so…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Abortion Question
Andrew Scheer has always tried to avoid saying anything that might reveal how he really feels about the abortion question, and the rights of women. And with good reason.For if Canadians knew how much of a hardline social conservative he is most of them would be appalled.But it's getting harder for Scheer
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Exclusive in the Sun: JWR speaks!
The truth. She says it’s true — the actions of the Liberal Prime Minister should be “of great concern for many Canadians, across the country.” She says, truthfully, that Justin Trudeau has acted in a way that is “questionable.” She says what happened her is “a wake-up call” — and,
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