Tag: election 2015

                                                       http://pdxretro.com/ For the last ten years, Stephen Harper has been trying to remake Canada in his own image. Alan Freeman writes that, despite his Herculean efforts, Harper has failed. Want the proof? Consider his Heritage  Department’s attempt to identify the ten most influential Canadians: Topping

                                                                                       http://www.tntmagazine.com/ There’s always a fire to be

                                               http://www.people-results.com/ Carol Goar has an interesting column in today’s Toronto Star. She writes that this election has held a mirror up to us and forced us to face some hard truths — some good, some not so good. Among the not so good is the notion

                                                        http://thelapine.ca/ I have suggested on several occasions that the ghost which lurks in Stephen Harper’s closet is Richard Nixon. But Marie Marguerite Sabongui, writing in The Guardian, suggests that the ghost which haunts Harperland is of more recent vintage — George W. Bush. She makes a compelling case. The

                                                http://cobb.typepad.com/ There’s one week to go. Stephen Harper has tried to make this election about the economy and terrorism. But — Tim Harper writes — in

The polls tell us that 70% of us want change — change as a counter weight to the change Stephen Harper has delivered in the past ten years. If you think not much has changed, Carol Goar reminds you of exactly what this prime minister has “accomplished:” A decade ago,

Making political predictions is always a risky business — particularly in this election, when the pools are all over the place. At the end of the last election, Peter C. Newman opined that the Liberal Party was dead. But, Chantal Hebert writes, Justin Trudeau will probably be the only leader