Watching Tom Clark’s West Block program on Global the other day sent a severe chill up the back. The show had two American guests General David Petraeous, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Robert Zoellick, former head of the World Bank. The two gentlemen were promoting their study
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Babel-on-the-Bay: The difference was in knowing Thumper.
If you thought of Thumper back in his political days, they were not always warm and fuzzy thoughts. Thumper was better known at that time as Donald S. Macdonald, M.P. for Toronto Rosedale. He always had an itch back then to be the replacement for Pierre Trudeau and those of
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: How about gun control that works?
Just for a couple minutes, we can assume that the coming federal election will create a government other than that controlled by the Conservative Party. And, if we are finished enjoying the thought after almost 10 years of the Conservatives, we know we have lots of work ahead of us.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Tales as told by Tories.
If you have ever wondered how Canada’s Tories can lie to voters as they do, just remember MP Paul Calandra and former MP Dean Del Mastro. Both these gentlemen have served as parliamentary secretaries to the Prime Minister of Canada. They have salutary stories for future aspirants to be a
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: There arose such a clatter…
We knew it wasn’t the Hair raising the clatter, He brought us nothing today that could matter. His oil economy is destined for intensive care, He’ll go down to defeat in October, we swear. It is what he has done to Canada’s reputation, We used to have so much
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Solving Justin’s problems in Quebec.
The good news in Quebec this year was that Philippe Couillard’s Quebec Liberals defeated the Parti Québécois. The bad news for federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is that Philippe Couillard’s Liberals defeated the Parti Québécois. Couillard’s Liberals are a noose around Justin’s neck. It is one reason that younger Quebeckers
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Lead from your strength, Justin.
Please Justin, just shut up and listen. The other day, you told Campion-Smith of the Toronto Star’s Ottawa Bureau that the economy will decide the next election. You had better hope not. You have absolutely no credibility in that subject and the majority of the voters could care less. Stephen
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Liberals we have heard on high.
It is only fair after introducing the local Conservative candidate, we mention that there is also going to be a Liberal candidate. We actually have a contest to determine the Liberal candidate. Somehow the Liberal party made a slip and approved two candidates in Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte. (That riding name has something
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: “Well look, Mr. Mansbridge” said the Hair.
To be interviewed by his nemesises at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on a bad hair day was really more than the Hair should suffer. And what has befallen Michelle Muntean, the hairdresser the Prime Minister lured away from CTV three elections ago? There are more questions than answers at this
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Mentioned in Dispatches.
We have heard from the front lines of the coming federal election. Our first of many big, full-colour brochures from our local Conservative candidate hit the door last week just ten months before the coming election. This elaborate missive told us probably more than it wanted to about our Conservative
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Trudeau’s “Free, open, transparent nominations.”
Do you want honesty or do you just want to get rid of the Harper Conservatives? That seems to be the conundrum facing members of Canada’s Liberal Party. The fact is that Justin Trudeau has lied to the party. He did not have much of a platform when he won
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Causing premature election.
We always knew that having fixed elections in Canada would cause the same problems as in the United States. You end up in an almost permanent condition of premature election. Take right now in Canada. The pundits and pollsters are already in full election mode when we are ten months
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: ‘Harpernomics’ is in the dumpster.
Hold on to your hats folks. Mr. Harper’s chickens have come home to roost. We let Stephen Harper blow off our manufacturing in Ontario and Quebec. We let the Conservatives spend millions on fictional economic action plans that neither made sense nor worked. And they built this Canadian oil economy
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Did you think Gordon Gibson was a Liberal?
Life is a journey and Gordon Gibson’s travels from the Prime Minister’s Office of 1968 to 1972 to being a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute in 2014 were unusual. Not that his ideas have improved much over the years. He wrote in the Globe and Mail last week that
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Politically correct sex?
What is this sham we are presenting to younger generations of Canadians? Our federal politicians seem to have their heads in their pants as they “tut-tut” about human sexuality. With no meaningful debate, the Conservative’s twisted new prostitution laws have come into effect. Justin Trudeau has punished two Liberal MPs
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The Hair helps with bigger bribes.
We are supposed to appreciate how the Hair helped Michaëlle Jean become the new head of the la Francophonie. While not outwardly supporting Canada’s former governor general, the Hair reminded everyone at the summit of the $500 million Canada will be providing over the next five years to vaccinate children
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The hard heart of the Hair.
You could barely hear over the running up of the A310 engines at Ottawa Airport. The Hair and his chatelaine stood at the door of the giant aircraft waving goodbye to their adoring throng from the Prime Minister’s Office. It sounded something like: “Suck it up folks. I’m going where
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Okay, Global’s Tom Clark has been redeemed.
After receiving various complaints from readers about the recent critical posting about Global Television’s Tom Clark, it is time to recant. The truth is that this writer has always been a solid fan of Tom’s work. It also helps that his late father, Joseph A.P. Clark was not only a
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Which twin has the Toni?
During a career in public relations in Canada, you kept an eye on what was happening in PR south of the border as well as the Canadian market. You always wanted to be aware of what firms were doing for their clients. A firm watched over the last 60 years
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Please come back Curmudgeon.
This is like a plaintive cry in the night across the prairie. A fellow blogger who goes under the pen name The Curmudgeon, a.k.a. The Mound of Sound, says he has had too much and he is giving up on Justin Trudeau and the Liberals. But the problem is that
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