Let’s start with a pop quiz. Who said this? “One of the biggest issues will be the question of how much of current revenue from non-renewable resources should be saved and how those savings should be invested … so that, if the day ever comes that oil and gas isn’t
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Scott's DiaTribes: The Liberal Party has bungled SNC-Lavalin terribly.
I can’t say I agree with much of my Liberal social media/blogger colleagues who are thinking this is a great thing that former Cabinet Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott got booted over their dissent as to how SNC Lavalin was being handled and the pressure being sent JWR’s way
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam latest: tale of the tape – was PMO taping JWR?
From Butts’ notes. This does nothing but confirm every damn word JWR has said. (And – PS – how does Butts have verbatim quotes? Did they tape her?)
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Liberal Party Mob Rule Trumps Democratic Processes
The Liberal MP’s are being whipped into line. The MP’s are turning their backs on those citizens and principles they were elected to represent. It is all about obedience. This herd mentality Read more…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Fighting Ford: Ontario’s New Healthcare Act
Photo from Doug Ford’s Twitter page It is called the “The People’s Health Care Act.” But the new healthcare omnibus bill, being rushed at breakneck speed through Ontario’s Legislature by Doug Ford’s majority caucus, does not reflect his promises to “the people” in the election. It does not open a
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Former NDP leader Brian Mason said ready to bring Alberta-style politics to B.C.
Brian Mason, soon to be a resident of British Columbia, will seek a nomination as an NDP candidate in that province as soon as he can, AlbertaPolitics.ca is reporting. The former leader of the Alberta New Democrats and Edmonton city councillor who announced in July he was retiring from Alberta
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Who Do You Believe -Jody Raybould Wilson Or These Two?
Who do you believe? Former AG Jody Wilson Raybould and former president of the Treasury Board Jane Philpott, or PM Justin Trudeau and Michael Wernick, his Clerk of the Treasury Board. THEGLOBEANDMAIL.COM Wernick says he Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Project Wide Awake: The RCMP Monitor Our Social Media Use Without Oversight.
Our national paramilitary police force operates as they wish with impunity. Our governments do nothing and it is left to Civil Liberties groups to challenge the lack of accountability.RH The RCMP Read more…
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: The Alberta Advantage was Dependence
In the end, the “Alberta Advantage” was dependence. And in retrospect, undoing that dependence on the oil industry — a mixture of real and perceived — needed to be the number one priority of the Notley NDP government. When Albertans (even to their own surprise) overthrew the 40-year Progressive Conservative
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rex Murphy: The Liberals are now at the edge of a cliff
Unless Philpott is a fully-bleached liar, a dark trickster of utterly malignant intent, she has said things which simply cannot be passed by. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with reporters on Parliament Hill, Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Is Justin Trudeau on the ropes as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister?
Here is the latest regarding former Treasury Board President Jane Philpott’s determination to shine light on the processes and background that ignited the SNC Lavalin scandal. Is Justin Trudeau on the ropes as both Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Why is it that we non-indigenous value monetary profit over the well being of our kids and their kids unto seven generations?
I recently went to an exhibit of paintings by Australian Aboriginal women at UBC’s Museum of Anthropology. All abstract, several of them luminous as the milky way seen in the sky above the desert where Read more…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Moving Beyond Ford: The Transportation We Want
Image from Spacing Toronto In Toronto and beyond, campaigns are underway to confront the Ford government’s initiative to take the Toronto subway system from the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) in order to reorganize, further automobilize and possibly privatize transit and transportation across the Greater Toronto area (GTA). This and other
Continue readingAlberta Politics: What would Green Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May do in Rachel Notley’s shoes? Not the same thing as Alberta’s premier
What would have Elizabeth May have done in Rachel Notley’s shoes? The leader of the Green Party of Canada says she would have summoned up the memory of Peter Lougheed, founder of Alberta’s 44-year Progressive Conservative Dynasty, but not the way the province’s first NDP premier has. “I think that
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Be careful what you wish for, Conservatives: Canadians may like a tougher Trudeau
Memo to Conservatives, New Democrats and others who are crowing about how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears to have been revealed as a harsher and less cuddly politician than he has been thought to be till now: Be careful what you wish for. If Mr. Trudeau is revealed as a
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Deficit hawks fall silent in Washington but screech in Alberta and Canada – what gives?
It’s starting to feel like spring, the days are longer, and the deficit hawks, apparently, have all flown north for the summer. As a result, nowadays, the hawks’ angry shrieks are seldom heard in Washington! “The federal budget deficit is ballooning on President Trump’s watch and few in Washington seem
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Liberals could have helped themselves and helped Canadians by going for full national pharmacare now, but … nope!
When Canadians heard Monday there was to be a big announcement on pharmacare yesterday, many of us concluded Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s shell-shocked strategic brain trust was finally ready to start acting like a Natural Governing Party again, instead of like lemmings racing for a cliff. It would have been
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Could Justin Trudeau be coated with Trump-like Teflon? It’s possible, and here’s why …
Is the SNC-Lavalin Affair really the Trudeau crusher Andrew Scheer and his strategic team obviously think it is? No sooner had former justice minister Jody Wilson-Reybould completed her startling testimony last Wednesday before the House of Commons Justice Committee – replete with detailed allegations of political interference in the justice
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Will Alberta conservatives blame Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau for Line 3 delays in Minnesota? Of course they will!
Will Alberta’s conservatives find a way to blame Premier Rachel Notley and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for the delays in construction Enbridge Inc.’s Line 3 Expansion announced yesterday? Why not? Given the credulity demonstrated by Alberta’s mainstream media when it comes to such stories, such an effort should get plenty
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Has a UCP candidate voiced what her party really thinks, its leader’s pledge notwithstanding, about two-tier health care?
If you wonder what the United Conservative Party really thinks about how health care ought to be run in Alberta, perhaps you should ask if Miranda Rosin instead of Jason Kenney, he of the Coroplast Pledge. Ms. Rosin is the UCP’s candidate in the new Banff-Kananaskis riding. Mr. Kenney is
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