This one’s going to be a little disconnected. The overarching thread, as said yesterday, is figuring out how to adjust our governing institutions to suit the importance of the principle of autonomy — that is, the idea that legitimate government author…
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On no he di’nt!
It’s not often that malfunctions of a political mind are put so obviously on display. Well, expect for perhaps our dear friend, Hugh McFadyen. OK, we all know that on May 2nd, 2011 Stephen Harper got his majority government. In large part, Sir Stephen was given his coveted majority because farmers in Western Canada voted […]
Continue readingOn governance: (1) Principles
How should we govern ourselves? Since Locke’s Second Treatise, the presumption has been in favour of self-government — that is, each individual adult person has the natural right to govern his or her own life. Thus government by others is, when legiti…
Continue readingMy take on Senate reform
We need the Senate, but not as it is now. The current Senate is far too inefective, inefficient, and undemocratic. I don’t agree with Stephen Harper much, but I do agree with him when he says the Senate needs to change. What makes something democratic?…
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: Speaker election first task for MPs
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/06/02/pol-speaker-election.html
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Donald Trump Won’t Run!
Personally I wanted Trump to run as it would have helped the democratics chances, but I am glad that the joke candidate is out as we might be able to discuss actual issue’s instead of false issue’s like if Obama was born in Hawaii. But the most intere…
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Small silver-lining for Election 41.
Sure, Saskatoon-Humbolt was willing to re-elect a radical fundie whose social views are even too extreme for PM Harper to endorse, but at least it said “No Thank you, Pankiw”!
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Small silver-lining for Election 41.
Sure, Saskatoon-Humbolt was willing to re-elect a radical fundie whose social views are even too extreme for PM Harper to endorse, but at least it said “No Thank you, Pankiw”!
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Small silver-lining for Election 41.
Sure, Saskatoon-Humbolt was willing to re-elect a radical fundie whose social views are even too extreme for PM Harper to endorse, but at least it said “No Thank you, Pankiw”!
Continue readingmike watkins dot ca: PC Party Confusion
A word association test: If handed a federal election ballot that displays a candidate’s name beside the "PC Party" label – what do you make of that?
Some may mistakenly believe the candidate represents Stephen Harper’s party due to long …
Continue readingdjkelly.ca: CBC Radio column: Time to change Elections Canada’s arcane rules
In this alberta@noon column on CBC Radio One with host Donna McElligott I talk about Elections Canada’s ban on reporting the results of a federal election in a time zone where the polls have not closed yet. Topics include the $25,000 fine, the difference between media and people using social media,
Continue readingGood news everybody!
Still on the Futurama theme. Couple of interetsing items in the news today. We have the Conference Board of Canada releasing their report on the ability of the Winnipeg and Quebec City markets to support an NHL team. I’m not the biggest hockey fan in the world. However, I do support the Jets coming back […]
Continue readingPolygonic: A future Liberal Party may want to consider…
There’s a lot of personal tragedy in elections, and it couldn’t get any worse for Michael Ignatieff. He’s finally succumbed to wounds meted out by the most vile, relentless attack ad machinery Canada’s ever seen. Shamefully, a huge hunk of the electorate swallowed it all hook, line and sinker – so much for our compassionate […]
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Election thoughts.
I haven’t yet seen the popular vote counts, but my initial impressions from last night are: -It is possible to attract progressive voters to the polls. -It is possible to find success running as the anti-Harper. -Ignatieff wasn’t able to shepherd the left’s “herd of cats”. Layton now has 4
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Election thoughts.
I haven’t yet seen the popular vote counts, but my initial impressions from last night are:-It is possible to attract progressive voters to the polls.-It is possible to find success running as the anti-Harper.-Ignatieff wasn’t able to shepherd the left…
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Election thoughts.
I haven’t yet seen the popular vote counts, but my initial impressions from last night are: -It is possible to attract progressive voters to the polls. -It is possible to find success running as the anti-Harper. -Ignatieff wasn’t able to shepherd the left’s “herd of cats”. Layton now has 4
Continue readingPolygonic: Québec’s NDP revolution: the new normal, or a BQ holiday?
Québec doesn’t do things by halves, does it? Some of us have begged and implored the NDP to focus its energies on Québec: to play to its social democratic credentials, and to take the Bloc to task as arrogant, single-minded, comfortable and lazy, and prone to taking its voters for granted. The idea being that […]
Continue readingThe Global Express: A Shift in Canadian Politics
With one of the most unpredictable and unimaginable elections in recent memory, the most accurate way to summarize it all in one sentence would be to say; there is a shift in Canadian politics. We have seen a shift in the status quo, and possibly the re-alignment in the Canadian
Continue readingPolygonic: If this isn’t bittersweet…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times – welcome to Dickensian Canada. The best of times, in some ways – a social democratic party’s never had a bigger share of the Parliamentary pie. And Quebec sovereigntists have never had less. The worst of times, clearly, in that years of fear-mongering […]
Continue readingCrush pwns Harper
Ya might want to have a talk with your advance people.
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