Tag: Democracy and Politics

There’s nothing like some Injuns getting uppity and demanding political rights, etc., to draw out the kooky, paranoid racism from their fellow Canadians, including those who write about politics for a living. To wit, I give you Postmedia’s version of General George Custer, Christie Blatchford: Already, there is much talk

The Council of Canadians has posted a new series of documents in relation to their robocall litigation. As you can see, they are attempting to get an affidavit from an Elections Canada investigator, and Elections Canada is attempting to avoid this. More intriguingly, though, another couple of warrants have been released in the process. That’s […]

Some new life was breathed into the investigation of election fraud in 2011 today when Elections Canada investigators filed court documents requesting that various phone companies reveal call records of complainants in more than 50 ridings across the country, which may be used to identify the source of a number of harassment and misdirection calls […]

Last year, as you may recall, the Conservative Party was caught bombarding residents of a Montreal riding with a misleading “poll” implying that their Liberal MP, Irwin Cotler, was resigning and that there would shortly be a by-election. The Conservatives soon admitted their guilt, but preposterously claimed that any criticism of this campaign would constitute […]

From the Venerable Kady:
A Conservative-backed campaign to haul Liberal leadership contender Justin Trudeau and now former natural resources critic David McGuinty before the natural resources committee to explain their headline-making comments on Alber…

When the Harper government elected not to discipline ranking MPs Dean Del Mastro or Peter Penashue or Peter Van Loan when serious allegations about financial improprieties were raised with respect to their campaigns, critics yet again asked the question: “What does it take for a male Cabinet minister to be fired by Harper?” This was […]

When Christy Clark became premier of the B.C. “Liberal” Party a couple years ago — a term which probably makes her one of the longest-serving unelected heads of state in post-Confederation history — a gaggle of Harperites was despatched to help her organize her new office. These included Ken Boessenkool, a former senior Conservative advisor […]

The following is the official opinion of the Conservative government, as stated by Stephen Harper’s Parliamentary Secretary Dean Del Mastro, who by all indications is a man with a deep and abiding respect for the law: This morning I read comments on a news story posted on an electronic news

Today the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the law governing Canada’s elections is less important than the principle of elections: that everyone has the right to vote, even if they blatantly fail to demonstrate the proof of residency which the law says they must provide in order  to vote,

Once again, so far as I can see, the criminal neglect and incompetence of the nation’s media appears to be on display with respect to the new budget bill. Here’s the general narrative being spread in the media by the Conservatives, as represented in CBC: The proposed changes mean MPs

Seriously. They did. It’s all in this week’s column from Conrad Black — and let me just say how pleased I am that at least one of our major newspapers is willing to make way for the voice of the convicted criminal minority among us: Quebec’s subtle voters deliver brilliant

Does anyone know if there’s an archived website for the former Rights & Democracy organization? http://www.dd-rd.ca seems to have gone offline, and the Harper regime shuttered the organization this summer. It’s not totally gone yet — their e-mail server is still online — and that leads me to suspect technical

The following post is deliberately alarmist. Orwellian, you might say. I’m not trying to paint a picture of what things are like in Canada right now, or even what I think they’ll be like in the near future. I’m not an idiot. But I do want to paint a picture

There are any number of ways in which a Parliamentary Speaker who wanted to make a name for himself could do so. They would be wildly popular, they would make a great deal of sense legally, and they would assure someone political immortality in a role not normally reserved for

I have taken far too long to write this post, but I think the time was warranted. I needed the time to sort out what I wanted to say in a way that didn’t sound silly, or alarmist, or paranoid. I am fearful, but not paranoid. The President of the