At this time of the phony election that precedes the real election, we are not really concerned about where pollsters think people are at but where they are headed. It is more of an oceanic drift than a positive direction but some of the flotsam will make it and some
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Babel-on-the-Bay: Butts is back.
Gerald Butts and company are back to drive the liberal campaign bus. One can only hope that a few lessons were learned from their past four years in Ottawa. After all, it has to be tough to remain arrogant when you have screwed up as often as the crew in
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Another Good Reason Not To Vote For The Greens
It's hard to believe that only a month ago I was hoping that Elizabeth May and her Green Party would do well in the federal election.Win a few more seats to help push the Liberals in the right direction, and boost the fight against climate change.But not any longer.For first came Warren
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Paint yourself Green.
Green party leader Elizabeth May looks tired. The 65-year old is no stranger to politics or environmentalism. She has been touring in and around Barrie on some of the hottest days of the summer and she is showing the strain. The wife and I would have loved to invite her
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: ‘Yesteryear Politicos’ and ‘Tired Advice.’
Most people are probably unaware that they can get a good laugh from the Hill Times almost every day, for free. The Ottawa-based political newsletter will send you their headlines everyday in hopes of selling you a subscription. The problem they have with me is all I want from them
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Elizabeth May’s Absurd Reasons For Hiring Warren Kinsella
As I said in my last post, Elizabeth May's decision to hire the toxic Trudeau hater Warren Kinsella is one of the most bizarre political decisions in modern Canadian history.And tweets like this one only make it sound crazier. For asking Kinsella not to be offensive or insulting is like
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Elizabeth May Went Over To The Dark Side
As I've mentioned many times I've always liked Elizabeth May. She always struck me as the kind of decent politician I admire.I liked her so much that I would have been quite happy to see her and her Green Party prop up a Trudeau minority government if that turned out
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Singh scans the Six.
Canada’s new democratic party leader has been seen in Ontario. Party leader Jagmeet Singh is engaged in a desperate rear-guard action this summer for some Toronto area ridings. Faced with the possible loss of their party standing in the house of commons, the NDP have realized that the Toronto area
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: It’s going to be a smack-down election.
The anticipated federal election in October looks like one that nobody can win. All the political parties are going into the election with heavy baggage. Nobody has the confidence of the nation. It could be the most bitter, hardest fought election in Canada’s history. There is too much at stake
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The late, unlamented New Democratic Party.
This information has been available for a while but this writer has been reluctant to mention it. The problem I have is with some of my readers who are entrenched supporters of what is left of the federal new democrats. They tend to vilify me for even reporting the
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Still here! (Sorta)
Its been awhile since I posted something here.. so I felt the need to add a blog entry to indicate I’m still alive. (If you read my twitter account at the right sidebar, you’ll see I am indeed around still). Lots of things have happened in a couple of months.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: ‘None of the Above’ is not an option.
There seems to be some disquiet across this fair land over our lack of good choices in the looming federal election. And whose fault is that? Frankly, Canadians have been encouraging mediocrity in politics for far too long. We have been trashing our political parties. We have been lying to
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Poison Ivy is also Green.
It has been very difficult to decipher exactly what Green party leader Elizabeth May has in mind. Our Ottawa parliamentarians were in an emergency debate on the climate emergency our scientists had reported. Being head of the Green party, Ms. May came out with a program to save the world—or,
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Don’t get too excited Ms. May.
If you want an area of Canada where the Green party runs rampant, go to Vancouver Island. In fact, the entire area around the Strait of Georgia seems overrun with Greens, Druids and other pagan religions. Just standing under one of those magnificent, lordly trees on the Island fills you
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Green Wave? No, But Possibly a Green Ripple.
It was just a by-election. Even if the governing party had an outside chance (it didn’t, the Liberal brand out here rarely is competitive) voters “punish” the part in power in by-elections or so goes the claim. This is generally reliable NDP territory. Up my way the Conservatives dominated for
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A New Day
Having abandoned any notion of voting for the Liberals in the next election, I find it irritating beyond expression to be constantly confronted by the binary thinkers among us who shrilly declaim that a vote for someone other than Trudeau is a vote for Andrew Scheer. This kind of absolutist
Continue readingThings Are Good: How one Political Party Mocked Pro Global Warming Government
The current “conservative” government in Ontario hates the environment so much that they keep producing policies to increase Canada’s carbon output. Indeed, they’ve made it mandatory for gas stations to post stickers fighting a federal carbon tax. There are legal challenges underway already to this sticky waste of money by
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: He Will Never Be Green
My past two posts have consisted of editorial cartoons featuring well-known ‘green’characters. The first depicted Kermit the frog trumpeting the very significant electoral gains made by the Green Party in Prince Edward Island, where they now form the government’s Official Opposition. The second depicted The Hulk as climate change, about
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: If you’re counting on a Green Wave: Forget it.
Elizabeth May, leader of the Green party, has a damn tough job and she has done it well. She does not always agree with her own troops and her main headaches must come from that quarter. Talking to a chap at a function where the speaker was Peggy Nash the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Elizabeth May at UofR
2 weeks ago Elizabeth May was in Regina at the University and gave the following speech. In it she covered everything from our failed public transportation systems, to SNC-Lavalin’s punishment when they are convicted of corruption for their bribes regarding construction in Libya.
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