This kind of makes it easy to judge Harper, doesn’t it? Recommend this Post
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Politics and its Discontents: Parental Warning
The following contains coarse language. While I know it is perhaps beneath the standards I try to maintain on my blog, I rather liked this: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Quick Thought About The TPP
I was not planning to write about the Trans Pacific Partnership deal gleefully announced by Mr. Harper yesterday, trade and economics not being my strong suits. However, looking at the overall details of what it entails prompts me to make an observation. First, a few of the details: Beef and
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Seeing Harper For What He Is
John Langs carved “Anybody But Harper!!” into his 46-acre field of rye near Brantford, Ont. Each letter is 100 metres tell. Star readers once more offer their trenchant assessments of Stephen Harper’s character (or lack thereof): It’s hard to reconcile Stephen Harper’s ongoing tough talk on standing up to terrorism
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: I Hope This Gets A Lot Of Airplay
Here is the newest NDP ad, a clever sendup of the Conservative record using the job interview format so favoured by the Tories in their attacks on Trudeau. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Go On, Make Her Day
You’ll understand the relevance of my post’s title when you get to the end of the following video, about the efforts of 81-year-old Doreen Routley, a former steadfast Conservative, to convince people not to vote for Stephen Harper in October. I shudder to ponder what expletives Angry White Guy would
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Pinocchio Effect
Those of us who have followed the machinations of the Harper regime over the years know that it is a rare occasion indeed when Stephen Harper tells the truth, either inside or outside the House of Commons. His capacity to convincingly dissemble, or effect what Stephen Colbert has called ‘truthiness,’
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Record Of Failure
Stephen lacks the requisite skills and temperament to succeed in any position of responsibility; recommend removal at earliest possible date. Stephen’s oil monomania suggests a pathology deeply harmful both to himself and the entire country. Stephen’s addiction to rabid and exclusionary ideology and his capacity for gross fabrications are also
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Sometimes, Few Words Are Needed.
Many thanks to my sister-in-law, Vicki, for alerting me to this. The saddest thing for Canada is the fact that from the second panel on, everything is true. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Harper Under Seige
Once more, editorial cartoonist Graeme MacKay scores a solid bullseye. As does Corrigan over at The Star: And let’s not forget Star readers: Since the post-2008 Great Recession, Stephen Harper’s primary focus on energy (oil/gas) economic action strategies have painted our economic flexibilities into a corner. Now we find our
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Our Baby-In Chief Strikes Again
It doesn’t take a degree in psychology to know that Stephen Harper has, as they say, issues. His obsessive secrecy, reported emotional volatility, deep vindictiveness and completely ruthless dispatch of those who represent perspectives, policies and values differing from his own are all markers of a deeply disturbed individual. That
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Unfriendly Fire
One hopes and expects that veterans have long memories; if they do, the Harper regime will find their lies catching up with them. A new campaign, entitled Vote To Stop The Cuts, has been launched by the Public Service Alliance of Canada, its aim to put the Harper record under
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Very Good Week
H/t The Toronto Star For progressives, it has been a very good week. For Stephen Harper and his adherents, not so much. First, there was the resounding and iconic defeat of the Progressive Conservative dynasty in Alberta. The message to the broader population: change is possible, a message not likely
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Bye, Bye, Steve
Operation Maple has a series of videos in which ordinary Canadians discuss their reasons to ‘leave Steve’ in 2015. Here they begin: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On Harper’s Mastery Of The Economy
H/t The Toronto Star ‘Nuff said. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics 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: 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: A Harper Dynasty?
That’s what the leaden-tongued Finance Minister seemed to be suggesting last night in discussing his budget. Either that, or the message was “Screw future generations.” You decide: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Under Harper’s Economic ‘Stewardship’
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Canada’s Outlier Status
Well, this is bauble budget day, the day the Harper regime makes its big pre-election push to convince us that all is right with the world, and that our natural selfishness is something we should revel in, not revolt against. It is a day in which further plundering of the
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