The Conservatives are treating Canada’s food safety budget like a game of three-card monte but here is the straight goods on what is budgeted. So fasten your seatbelts and keep your eye on the the cards. The Conservatives recite repeatedly that the federal government has increased the food… ..
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Canadian Soapbox: Justin Trudeau understands social media…
Nice touch, hopefully young Mr. Trudeau can get Canada’s youth excited about politics again. Its been a while.
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Stephen Harper is Sooooo unpopular that…..
I’m not going to put any stock in a recent poll that suggests the Liberals led by Justin Trudeau would easily win a federal election if one were held right now, because there’s no campaign going on. But it does say something about how Canadians feel about Stephen Harper
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: One Simple Truth that Reveals All Others
We need to accept one simple truth. To avoid runaway climate change we can burn just one-fifth of already discovered reserves of fossil fuels. One fifth, no more. Fossil fuels have, for the survival of mankind, become sub-prime assets. The higher-carbon the fossil fuel the more worthless it is. That
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: The right thing done.
I haven’t said much on Omar Khadr’s return; I’ve been reading with a mixture of amusement and disgust the right wing vitriol over this decision. The Conservatives apparently had good reason to fear their right-wing “base” reaction to Khadr being returned, if the reaction on Twitter and blogs are any
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Victor Toews demonstrates how wedge politics biteth like a serpent
Mennonites in Paraguay. Below: Victor Toews and Omar Khadr as they appear nowadays. Way below: Ron Anders in one of his waking moments. You’d think Victor Toews would have felt a little empathy for Omar Khadr. Mr. Toews is the Paraguayan-born public security minister in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government.
Continue readingwmtc: stephen harper awarded first richard nixon award
Some of us found it more than a little strange to learn that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been named World Statesman of the Year by the Appeal of Conscience Foundation. Perhaps this is to expected in a world where Barack Obama – now Commander in Chief of a military
Continue readingAlberta Diary: If it’s Alberta, it ain’t goin’ across the border: time to connect the dots on XL Foods
“If it ain’t Alberta, it ain’t beef!” Alberta Beef Producers’ advertising models may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: I [HEART] [ALBERTA MAP] [BEETS]; Alberta Agriculture Minister Verlyn Olson and Premier Alison Redford. Do you remember that brilliant advertising campaign, “If it ain’t Alberta, it ain’t beef”? Well, nowadays –
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: On Justin Trudeau
I thought this might deserve its own blogpost column. I was asked by a Liberal friend (who has been involved with organizing other Liberal leadership campaigns) what I thought of Justin Trudeau if/when he decided to run, and whether I’d support him. It was done in the backdrop of that
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Polls on Liberal (would-be) contenders and NDP leads.
You might have seen a poll out in the past couple of days from Forum Research stating that if Justin Trudeau became Liberal Party leader, he’d receive 39% of the vote, Stephen Harper’s CPC getting 32% and the NDP reverting back to their long held 3rd party status with 20%.
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Pro Choice abortion advocates can breathe easy…for now
On Wednesday Canada’s Parliament voted down a motion put forward by Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth that called for the creation of a committee to study at what point human life begins. Had the motion passed it opened up the possibility that a fetus could be given legal recognition. In turn
Continue readingwmtc: the politics of sex-selective abortion: there shouldn’t be any
Hard on the heels of the defeat of Motion 312 – on the mind-bending spectacle of the Minister of the Status of Women voting with the anti-choice contingent, on the sobering sight of de facto Deputy Prime Minister Jason Kenney voting the way a former U.S. anti-abortion activist could be expected to
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: The Harper government’s growing say-do gap
We Canadians are a forgiving lot, we elect governments all the time that back track and flip flop on election promises…then we elect them again. Pierre Trudeau campaigned against wage and price controls, then brought them in. Brian Mulroney said he had no interest in pursuing a free trade agreement
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: The aftermath of M312 – for Liberals that is – and the case for primaries.
Motion 312 – The motion by Conservative MP backbencher Stephen Woodsworth asking for the House to re-open the study of when life begins – was defeated this evening by a vote of 203 – 91. Among those 91 in favor of it were 4 Liberals – well known pro-life Liberals.
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Thinly Thought
I wasn’t going to do this. I really wasn’t. But then something happened to a friend of mine and it got my knickers in a knot and I know I’m going to be skimming over vast chunks of the actual … Continue reading →
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Motion 312 and reproductive rights: pay attention to what Tories do, not to what they say
What? What? I’m pro-choice and pro-life, Edmonton St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber seems to say in this shot grabbed from his website. Below: Kitchener Centre MP Stephen Woodworth. In this era of routine political deceit, wise voters are advised to pay attention to what their elected representatives actually do, not
Continue readingRandom Ranting Raving and Ratings: Motion 312 – The Handmaid’s Tale
A pregnant women has always been considered legally one person. Bill C-484, introduced in Parliament on December 13th, 2007, attempted to change that by seeking TWO murder charges against a person that killed a pregnant woman. Women are not stupid. It was clear that… ..
Continue readingRandom Ranting Raving and Ratings: Motion 312 – The Handmaid’s Tale
A pregnant women has always been considered legally one person. Bill C-484, introduced in Parliament on December 13th, 2007, attempted to change that by seeking TWO murder charges against a person that killed a pregnant woman. Women are not stupid. It was clear that… ..
Continue readingRandom Ranting Raving and Ratings: Motion 312 – The Handmaid’s Tale
A pregnant women has always been considered legally one person. Bill C-484, introduced in Parliament on December 13th, 2007, attempted to change that by seeking TWO murder charges against a person that killed a pregnant woman. W…
Continue readingAlberta Diary: About Stephen Harper’s ambassadorial timeshare: maybe he missed the lesson on the Statute of Westminster!
Canadian and British Joint-Embassy diplomats work out their timeshare arrangements. Below: The young Stephen Harper on the day he missed his history lecture after lingering too long over Atlas Shrugged; Perfesser Dave feeds lines to Opposition leader Tom Mulcair last weekend; Mr. Harper at the NCC. Like Sir John A.
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