Along with guest co-hosts Lianne Bell and Chris Henderson, Dave discusses what to expect from the United Conservative Party and New Democratic Party when the Legislature reconvenes on May 21 and how the cabinet and opposition critics will match-up this session. We also talk about how federal Liberal leader Justin
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Warren Kinsella: No apologies
Justin Trudeau likes apologies. He does. According to the BBC, the Liberal leader has issued quite a few formal apologies since he became Prime Minister in 2015. The first one happened a few months after his big election win. Trudeau apologized to the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren – and the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On cult leadership
Andrew Scheer’s scheming with oil lobbyists in advance of this fall’s federal election has received at least some attention. But it’s worth pointing out just how drastic a step Scheer has taken in aligning himself with a shadowy group trying to push dirty energy sources as “miracles” rather than commercial
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Justin Trudeau and the Great Trump Tariff War
Justin Trudeau hasn't had much to celebrate recently. The economy may be booming, the unemployment rate is better than it has been for 40 years.But the Schmearmongering Cons and their stooge media have given him no credit, preferring to concentrate on one fake scandal after the other.And the toxic Trudeau haters are forever
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Postmedia bid for role in UCP ‘war room’ illustrates the folly of Trudeau’s lifeline for failing newspapers
Connect the dots, Mr. Prime Minister! That newspaper industry bailout package you’re foolishly planning in the name of preserving democracy is principally designed to keep a corporation afloat that will do anything, no matter how unethical, to destroy your government. If you want proof, look no further than Postmedia’s astonishing
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Con’s Climate Emergency Fiasco
As I said about ten days ago, when heavy flooding in the Ottawa area forced Andrew Scheer to admit that climate change was real, I knew it was all over, for him and his Cons.I knew that having admitted it was a problem, but having no solution, except to scream
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – PressProgress digs into Statistics Canada’s findings about precarious work in Canada, highlighting the connection between temporary work and subpar pay and working conditions: According to a report by Statistics Canada, published Tuesday, the percentage of Canadian workers hired on temporary contracts increased from
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Unsunny ways
New Abacus Data stuff. My expert political guy analysis: Justin Trudeau is in some deep shit. He’s losing, Andrew Scheer and Elizabeth May are winning. You’re welcome.
Continue readingAlberta Politics: The Annals of Justice: Vice-Admiral Mark Norman gets an apology and Conrad Black gets a pardon
Remember this important fact: None of us knows whether Vice-Admiral Mark Norman is guilty of the crime with which he was charged. Well, Vice-Admiral Norman knows, presumably, and his legal team would have a pretty good idea, as would a few Crown prosecutors and members of the Royal Canadian Mounted
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Fake Scandal That Wasn’t
As we all know, Andrew Scheer likes to sniff for fake scandals like a hog sniffs for truffles.And for a very simple reason, he has nothing else, no policies, no nothing.But while he was able to keep the SNC-Lavalin fake scandal going for twelve weeks, with the help of his shabby
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Mr Scheer Goes To The Basketball Game
I live just a few blocks away from the Scotiabank Arena, so I'm pretty familiar with the Raptor fans who gather in the square they call Jurassic Park.And since I'm not a basketball fan, and they're mostly very young and really noisy, and it's all happening right next to my
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Justin Trudeau and the Con War on Women
In my last post I looked at yet another good reason to vote for Justin Trudeau's Liberals.You know, The One. Million. Jobs. Reason. But today on Mother's Day, there is an even more compelling reason to do that.The Con War on Women.Read more »
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Don’t get too excited Ms. May.
If you want an area of Canada where the Green party runs rampant, go to Vancouver Island. In fact, the entire area around the Strait of Georgia seems overrun with Greens, Druids and other pagan religions. Just standing under one of those magnificent, lordly trees on the Island fills you
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day The Cons May Have Lost the Election
I can't imagine what the mood at Con headquarters must have been like today.Or how Andrew Scheer and his ex-Rebel campaign manager Hamish Marshall must be feeling after their ghastly gang was hit by two massive blows, that just might cost the Cons the election.First the Admiral Norman Affair, that they had
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Astra Taylor points out that we should be far more concerned about a planetary carbon budget which actually involves inflexible limits, rather than delaying action in the name of avoiding spending on government balance sheets. J. David Hughes highlights how choices which subsidize
Continue readingAlberta Politics: UCP Health Minister Tyler Shandro hesitates over risky ideological plan to pull plug on medical ‘Superlab’
When it opted to build a $590-million “Superlab” in Edmonton, Alberta’s former NDP government was relying on sound advice from the Health Quality Council of Alberta, which recommended medical lab services be consolidated under “a single public sector platform.” But never mind the HQCA was set up under legislation created
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is This Andrew Scheer’s Biggest and Most Disgusting Lie Ever?
As we all know, or should know, Andrew Scheer is a serial liar who mangles or mutilates the truth all the time.He's a religious fanatic who can't even respect the Ninth Commandment: THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESSBut cheerfully uses that steaming heap of lies to fuel his depraved propaganda machine, aimed at
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Scheer Madness and Foreign Policy.
They wrote a speech the other day and ‘Chuckles’ Scheer, leader of Canada’s conservatives, read it. At the end of the day, Chuckles’ party had some foreign policy to show off and little was changed. The essentials of it were that Donald Trump and his friends were the good guys
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