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Politics and its Discontents: Guest Commentary From The Salamander On Pierre Poilievre And The Company he Keeps
Because he doesn’t maintain his own blog yet offers blistering commentary that lacerates the pretensions of his subjects, I am once more placing as a guest post the searing analysis The Salmander offered in response to my post on the hypocrisy of that old young man, Pierre Poilievre, currently one
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Is Pierre Poilivre Related To Joe Oliver?
They certainly seem to be singing from the same hymn book. Orwellian and hypocritical are inadequate descriptors of this little twit: And speaking of Orwellian, how else might one describe the “Working Families Flexibility Act?” The Harperites must be salivating. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The World We Are Destroying
My friend LeDaro often posts videos that depict the world around us, poignant reminders of what we are so blithely destroying through our heedless consumerism and governments that know the price of everything but the value of nothing. In this, the slavish promotion of the tarsands by the Harper regime
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: And Speaking Of The Tarsands ….
This is brilliant. Thanks to Anon, who, in his comment on my previous post, directed me to this video: Let’s try to spread this as widely as possible. Mockery and satire often seem to be the best way to respond to the nonsense and lies the government proclaims in our
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: An Embarrassment To All of Us
Like the dotty uncle no one wants to invite to family dinners anymore because of his wildly inappropriate comments, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver is fast becoming an international persona non grata. With the passion of a senescent zealot, Oliver has drawn unfavorable attention to Canada in recent weeks over
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Why Is This Man Smiling?
Could it be because Senator Duffy was tipped off by the man investigating him for expense improprieties? Or could it be because once more, an errant staff member is to blame for Conservative ‘irregularities’? Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Guest Commentary From the Salamander On The Harper Regime
The other evening I put up a post on Kellie Leitch, the erstwhile physician turned Conservative M.P., enthusiastic sycophant and prominent apologist of all things Harpereque. As he occasionally does, The Salamander, in a comment on the post, offered his own observations of Ms. Leitch and a host of other
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Silver Lining
Now that the weather has markedly and rather consistently improved over the past week in my part of Ontario, yard work beckons, so for now I offer this perceptive nugget from a Star reader, who sees some benefit to the Harper regime’s estrangement from the United Nations: Canada not up
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Harper Government’s Legacy of Death
Checking my blog archive, I found that I have written a total of 22 posts on asbestos. Here is number 23. Two years ago, Canada was the sole nation to oppose adding chrysotile asbestos to the list of hazardous products under the Rotterdam Convention. Such a listing would not have
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Are Canadians Experiencing Buyers’ Remorse?
Many of us who blog, tweet, or post political views on Facebook cannot, I suspect, avoid the periodic and unsettling notion that we are simply ‘preaching to the converted’ instead of reaching a larger audience with our perspectives and commentaries. Yet we persevere, both as a catharsis for our own
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: An Anniversary Many Would Like To Forget
In his column today, Tim Harper reminds us that yesterday marked the two-year anniversary of the Harper majority government. It is hardly an occasion that progressives take delight in as columnist Harper makes reference to some of the regime’s retrograde policies and ‘achievements’: – streamlined environmental regulatory reviews – the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On Harper’s Fiscal Ineptitude
Since the story has been covered in the mainstream press, and The Sixth Estate has done his usual fine and thorough job of analyzing its implications, I have nothing to add to the tale of the missing $3 billion from the Public Security and Anti-Terrorism (PSAT) Initiative. Not only does
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Leaf Nation, Or Just More Tired Rabid Harper Partisanship?
Some may think this clever. I just think it is pathetic (and I’m not even a fan of the Liberals). Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Dominoes of Democracy – Part 2
What is one of the chief effects of the Harper regime’s preference for an ideologically-based policy model over one premised on logic, facts and empirical evidence, as explored in my earlier post? The decline, perhaps even the demise, of a healthy democracy in which citizens are engaged and informed participants,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Dominoes of Democracy – Part 2
What is one of the chief effects of the Harper regime’s preference for an ideologically-based policy model over one premised on logic, facts and empirical evidence, as explored in my earlier post? The decline, perhaps even the demise, of a healthy democracy in which citizens are engaged and informed participants,
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Cause and effect. Sometimes the relationship is obvious, as in, for example, a cigarette left smoldering on a couch and the subsequent conflagration that destroys a house. Other times, to see the relationship requires some digging, some thinking, some connecting of the dots. To its shame the Harper regime, as
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Much Deserved Mockery – Part 3
A bit of a busy morning ahead, so for now something more from our friends at Canadians Rallying To Unseat Harper that amply attests to the fact that the spirit of resistance and dissent is alive and well in Canada: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More Much-Deserved Mockery
From the folks at Canadians Rallying To Unseat Harper: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More Much-Deserved Mockery
From the folks at Canadians Rallying To Unseat Harper: Recommend this Post
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