The abuse of the taxpayer by the Harper regime is shameless and relentless. That’s the conclusion drawn by The Star’s Tim Harper today, and it is abuse that is amply demonstrated in today’s Globe. First to Tim Harper: The Conservatives have provided a national background Muzak of sloganeering and propaganda
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Politics and its Discontents: Can Stephen Harper Buy Your Conscience?
Stephen Harper offers so much to so few – tax cuts, increased Tax-Free Savings Accounts, income-splitting, to name but a few of his ‘gifts.’ His disingenuous rhetoric notwithstanding, however, Harper is really offering all kinds of bribes inducements for you to think only of yourself, and to ignore the niggling
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Harper Reign Of Terror Continues
The Harper reign of terror, a.k.a, the CRA witch hunts, continues apace, the latest victim the Sierra Club Canada Foundation. Describing it as part of an “intimidation campaign”, John Bennett, the foundation’s national program director … has been asked to produce a list of all the politicians he met in
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: This Deserves To Be Watched Regularly Until October
Journalist Michael Harris (Party of One) recently appeared on Steve Paikin’s TVO show, The Agenda. People shuold watch this on a regular basis to be reminded regularly of Stephen Harper’s anti-democratic and contemptuous ways. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Cudgel Resurrected
To the red-meat crowd (a.k.a. the Harper base et alia), few things can seem more gratifying than an attack on unions. Viewed as the enemy of all that is good and holy (i.e., unfettered profits), unions, we are often told, have had their day and really shouldn’t be disrupting our
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Less Than Meets The Eye
So much for fiscal prudence. So long credibility. Those words, written By Scott Clark and Peter DeVries, succinctly summarize the illusions, misdirection and magical thinking that Joe Oliver’s budget is based on. As the authors point out, six ‘rabbits’ that Oliver pulled out of his hat on Tuesday conceal some
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Under Harper’s Economic ‘Stewardship’
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: For Those Who Value Democracy
After watching Pierre Polievre make the Sunday rounds extolling his government’s achievements, it would be easy for the politically disengaged and ignorant to conclude that the Harper regime is the greatest thing since the proverbial sliced bread. By Polievre’s account, his government has put more money into the pockets of
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Peek Behind the Curtain
As usual, Star readers get it: Re: Doubling is troubling, April 11 Eleven million people with TFSAs seems like a lot of lost tax revenue. It is simply another way to avoid taxes and should be stopped, not increased. Of course under Harper it will only increase and continue to
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Stephen Harper Is A Real Man
At least someone from this Hour Has 22 Minutes thinks so: Hope Dear Leader appreciates having such unbridled adoration. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Tells You All You Need To Know, Doesn’t It
It is a mental picture I hope all Canadians carry to the polls this October: “To Duff, a great journalist and a great senator, thanks for being one of my best, hardest-working appointments ever,” reads a photo signed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper entered as an exhibit Thursday. Recommend this
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Details, Details, Details
Details. It seems that Conservative MP Diane Ablonczy finds them irksome impediments to action. Details like objections to violations of our Charter Rights: During the final day of parliamentary hearings into the government’s controversial anti-terrorism bill, Conservative MP Diane Ablonczy used air quotes to dismiss an amendment, first proposed by
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Quiet Eloquence Of Harry Smith
His is a quiet eloquence that speaks far louder than all the braying our political ‘leaders’ engage in with abandon. Harry Smith, about whom I previously posted, is a man who has seen much during his long life. He has seen the worst that happens when society treats the majority
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Meanwhile, In Canada
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Harry Smith Has Stephen Harper In His Sights
Harry Smith is a man on a mission, one that should put disengaged Canadians to shame. The 92-year-old long-time activist, who splits his time between Canada and England, is ashamed of what has happened under the rule of Stephen Harper, and plans to make a difference as soon as he
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Fear In The Streets? It’s What He Wants
Those of us who have been following the machinations of our Machiavellian prime minster know that he seems intent on remaking Canada in his own malevolent image – a land where fear, suspicion, and division prevail, a land where only he and his party deserve the people’s electoral trust to
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: An Imperiled Democracy: Civic Illiteracy In Canada
I imagine that bloggers have any number of reasons for doing what they do, ranging from writing as catharsis to sharing information and insights in the hope of informing and/or changing people’s views. And while I read a number of blogs on a daily basis that further inform my worldview,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More About That Gun Thing, Mr. Harper
Despite Stephen Harper’s strong warnings last year about its dangers, two professors of criminology have thrown caution to the wind and ‘committed sociology.’ In today’s Star, Irvin Waller and Michael Kempa use that dark art to question Mr. Harper’s recent professed enthusiasm for the use of guns as personal protection,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Work In Progress
The website SHD (Shit Harper Did) is currently completing a documentary looking into Canada’s surveillance programs. Now in post-production, it is seeking donors to help complete the process. If you would like to contribute, you can click here. Following is a trailer of their work: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: About That Gun Thing, Mr. Harper
Yesterday, I wrote about Prime Minister Harper hitting upon yet another red-meat issue, this one potentially quite dangerous, over which his base can salivate. He suggested that guns are an important part of personal safety, especially in rural areas. Two letters in today’s Globe suggest not everyone with rural experience
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