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
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Politics and its Discontents: The Vindication Of Thomas Mulcair
Some will remember the abuse heaped upon NDP leader Thomas Mulcair back in 2012 when he said that Canada was suffering from the same Dutch disease that afflicted the Netherlands after natural gas fields boosting that nation’s currency reduced the competitiveness of its exports back in the 1970s. The culprit
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Amanda Lang Interviews Ed Broadbent
If you have as low an opinion of the CBC’s disgraced chief business correspondent, Amanda Lang, as I do, watch the following video. I think you will find that, with her absolutist questions typical of the extreme right and the intellectually deficient, she does not exceed expectations. For Broadbent’s thoughts
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: And Speaking Of Harper’s Former Friends and Appointees….
Another one sends his greetings from jail in Panama. The disgraced Arthur Porter, the Harper-appointed former Chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee of Canada and alleged fraudster, has a message for his former good buddy: Porter told The Canadian Press in a recent phone interview from La Joya prison
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: Hither And Thither
For a government whose every policy seems to be concocted with an eye to re-election, it is not surprising that Finance Minister Joe Oliver has not yet firmed up a date for this year’s budget. After all, he and the rest of the cabal need to know how effective their
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Something All Canadians Need To Hear
Many thanks to The Salamander for alerting me to this video, which Richard Hughes posted on his blog, Cowichan Conversations. I am reposting it here, and encourage all progressive bloggers to consider doing the same on their sites. This eloquent message reminds all of us of the myriad failures of
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Past Hits Of A New Cabinet Minister
Lest we forget some of the past gems from newly appointed Minister for Employment and Social Development, Pierre Polievre: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Well, This Certainly Speaks For Itself
Doesn’t it? H/t The Globe and Mail Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Good News For Those Who Believe Stephen Harper Is Good For Canada
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: As The Year Ends
… this deserves one more play. For a full review of the abysmal Harper Veterans Affairs record, check out the good work by the good folks at Press Progress. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Lest We Forget
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: My Name Is Ozymandias
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’ Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Harper Exposed Once More
Those of us who follow politics closely and with a critical eye have long seen through the myth his handlers have perpetuated that Stephen Harper is a wise and reliable steward of the economy. Doubtless that gross mischaracterization will continue to be applied, and with greater frequency, as we move
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Folly of Harper’s Economic Emphasis
While no reasonable person would suggest that Canada should immediately turn its back on it resources, the folly of self-described economist Stephen Harper is the undue weighting his regime has placed on that sector for fiscal health. Other countries have been looking toward the day when our dependence on fossil
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Stephen Harper’s Advice: ‘Don’t Believe What You Sometimes Read’
That little gem was delivered by Dear Leader at a gathering of true believers outside of Hamilton the other day as he offered this confabulation: “There are more people going to good-paying jobs today than in any other time in our history.” About the deplorable sellout he engineered in his
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Failed Puppet Master?
In a withering assessment of Stephen Harper, that is the conclusion Andrew Coyne seems to draw in his National Post column: We are so heavily invested, we media types, in the notion of Harper as master strategist, able to see around corners and think seven moves ahead and what not,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Going, Going ….
And soon gone, would be my guess. Read this CBC report and watch the following video, both of which suggest to this observer that Eve Adams is not long for this political world: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Slip Slidin’ Away
Slip sliding away, slip sliding away You know the nearer your destination, the more you’re slip sliding away – Paul Simon I know, by his public efforts to appear reasonably normal, that Stephen Harper is a Beatles’ fan. Whether he has ever listened to or crooned any of Paul Simon’s
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Rather Appropriate, Don’t You Think?
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