Annamie Paul with Green Party of Canada supporters during the 2019 federal election held in downtown Toronto. Photo courtesy Annamie Paul/Wikimedia Commons. The Green Party of Canada is imploding. In 2019, the Greens were a rising threat to the New Democratic Party and looked like they could even overtake it
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Alberta Politics: PM Justin Trudeau, boyish, beardless and in campaign mode, shows up to bestow $1.5B on Calgary Green Line LRT
Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, boyish and freshly beardless as if a summer election is blowin’ in the wind, showed up in Alberta yesterday to bestow $1.5 billion in federal cash on Calgary’s Green Line LRT, a mega-project unpopular with many of the well-heeled donors who support Premier Jason Kenney’s
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Something is dragging the federal Conservatives down in Alberta – is it Jason Kenney?
It sure looks as if Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s abysmal performance is not merely threatening the survival of his United Conservative Party Government, but is dragging down the federal Conservatives in Alberta as well. Alberta’s Conservatives are too strong and too entrenched even for Premier Kenney to destroy them completely.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: This Isn’t a Heatwave — It’s a Dying Planet
Our Civilisation is Boiling Alive in the Fumes of its Own Waste umair haque Follow Jun 30 · 7 min read Image Credit: ABC11 Screenshot It was my lovely doctor wife who Read more… The post This Isn’t a Heatwave — It’s a Dying Planet first appeared on richardhughes.ca.
Continue readingAlberta Politics: While Jason Kenney promises the best summer ever, it’s hard to shake the feeling of apocalyptic foreboding this Canada Day
ST. ALBERT, ALBERTA – It’s Canada Day. The pickup trucks with their maple leaf flags may or may not be screeching around Edmonton’s Whyte Avenue tonight, laying rubber in celebration of the provincial government’s edict the masks must come off, Delta variant or not. The Youville Residential School in St.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: A Condensed History of Canada’s Colonial Cops
How the RCMP has secured the imperialist power of the north By M. GOULDHAWKEMARCH 10, 2020 “The myth of the RCMP is that they came to protect us from the whisky traders and bad guys. Read more… The post A Condensed History of Canada’s Colonial Cops first appeared on richardhughes.ca.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Canadian media defend Green Party leader as she accuses her critics of racism
Green Party leader Annamie Paul’s critics are not racist, writes Yves Engler. They are simply appalled by her autocratic behaviour and repeated and consistent refusal to side with the Palestinian people. Still image from YouTube/CBC. Last month Montréal saw its largest-ever protests by predominantly racialized communities. On May 15, upwards
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Canada Action advocates for the oil and gas industry by arguing the sector is critical to Canada’s economy and prosperity.
Originally published by the Narwhal. Canada Action The Narwhal Canada Action — Background and Information Canada Action is a Canadian federally-registered non-profit organization launched in 2012 that advances pro-oil and gas industry sentiments Read more… The post Canada Action advocates for the oil and gas industry by arguing the sector
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Never mind the evidence, Jason Kenney insists he never called for a niqab ban in his Ottawa days
“I’ve always said that Canada is a country that protects and respects religious freedom and pluralism, and the government has no business regulating what people wear…” — Jason Kenney, yesterday. “Whaaat?” — Everybody else, also yesterday. Former prime minister Stephen Harper (Photo: Office of the Prime Minister). Is Jason Kenney’s
Continue readingAlberta Politics: How the Kenney Government could push us back into another wave of COVID in the name of reopening
Will the Kenney Government lose interest in its vaccination campaign the instant Premier Jason Kenney’s arbitrary 70-per-cent vaccination threshold for allowing the Calgary Stampede to open is met? If past behaviour is a guide, this seems quite possible. The Calgary Stampede is a great place for Conservatives to meet Conservatives.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Green Party scores own goal with defection of pro-Palestine MP
On June 10, Green Party MP Jenica Atwin crossed the floor to sit with the Liberals less than two years after her breakthrough election for the Greens in New Brunswick. Photo courtesy Jenica Atwin/Facebook. Score an own goal for the Green Party of Canada’s most pro-Israel members, Noah Zatzman and
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Jenica Atwin’s floor-crossing puts Green Party on death’s door
What would be best for Canada—and for progressive voters in particular—would be for the Green Party to fade off into the sunset, writes Christo Aivalis. Image by Canadian Dimension. Yesterday, Fredericton Member of Parliament Jenica Atwin announced that she left the Green Party to join the Liberal Party. While floor-crossings
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Worst news conference ever? Jason Kenney apologizes for Sky Palace patio party, touts silly equalization referendum
The rebellion that now has United Conservative Party Premier Jason Kenney looking as if his career is on the ropes is strongly reminiscent of the circumstances that brought Progressive Conservative Party premier Alison Redford’s political career to an end in 2014. Ironically, both feature the “Sky Palace” as a powerful
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Jason Kenney decries ‘cancel culture’ in lengthy monologue defending John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first PM
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s cranky lecture about “cancel culture” yesterday notwithstanding, no one is proposing that John A. Macdonald’s name be erased from the pages of Canadian history or we cease to study his role as Canada’s first prime minister. On the contrary, if we truly want to progress as
Continue readingAlberta Politics: No press release, but Kenney Government quietly moves to help Alberta’s friends in the Saudi Arabian government
The Kenney Government has quietly moved to ensure that Alberta’s friends and business partners in the government of Saudi Arabia are free from the complications of inconvenient foreign land ownership rules. Now, many readers are doubtless thinking, “Say what?” After all, isn’t the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia the land of
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Is Alberta’s UCP government trying to open a new front in the old Cold War?
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney provides an update on the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in Alberta, February 19, 2021. Photo courtesy Alberta Newsroom/Flickr. Last month, a “deeply concerned” Alberta Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides instructed the province’s four comprehensive academic research universities to “pause” any new or renewed research partnerships with
Continue readingAlberta Politics: The appalling discovery in Kamloops is irrefutable evidence of a crime against humanity
The appalling discovery of the bodies of 215 Indigenous children hidden in unmarked graves at the site of the Residential School in Kamloops, B.C., is irrefutable evidence of a crime against humanity. The Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Band confirmed Thursday that ground-penetrating radar had detected the remains of the children on
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The left should leverage emerging cracks in BC’s right-wing coalitions
According to CD columnist Alex Cosh, it is up to extra-parliamentary movements to hold the BC government’s feet to the fire on behalf of working people. Photo courtesy the Province of British Columbia/Flickr. It’s been a tumultuous year or so for British Columbia’s fragile right-wing political coalitions. After winning its
Continue readingAlberta Politics: State of the Media: Postmedia, looking for a future, post media as it were, wants to deliver your parcels!
Let’s give ourselves some respite from the horror of living in Alberta under Jason Kenney and his United Conspiracy Party. Instead, here’s an inspiring, upbeat story about an old business we all thought was on its last legs that is thinking outside the box about how to grab the low-hanging
Continue readingAlberta Politics: If you like going to the bottle depot, you’ll love the Conservative carbon tax, says Calgary MP Ron Liepert
I hear that Calgary Signal Hill Conservative MP Ron Liepert – who the Canadian Press kindly described as an experienced Alberta politician – has been using the deposit you pay on a bottle of beer to explain party Leader Erin O’Toole’s carbon tax proposal. This is a flawed metaphor, but
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