This piece last Sunday in the Star, “Restraining the welfare state,” by Stanford Professor Michael Boskin, a former Bush the first adviser, has evoked a fair response in letters to today’s Star: “Welfare argument full of holes.” Boskin’s thesis was tha…
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The Happy Wanderer: The "Page" Was Out Of Line!
In our democracy we are allowed to have opinions, and I encourage all those who have opinions to express them. I do on the other hand am against a page who works for the government voicing her opinion. She may have a political opinion and i would be ha…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Throne speech – “Stop Harper”
Updated: Presser from Brigitte Marcelle:
“Harper’s agenda is disastrous for this country and for my generation,” Brigette Marcelle says. “We have to stop him from wasting billions on fighter jets, military bases, and corporate tax cuts while cutting social programs and destroying the climate. Most people in this country know what we […]
The Disaffected Lib: Chretien, Clinton and Fox Fight For Water
20 former world leaders, including Jean Chretien, Bill Clinton and Mexico’s Vincente Fox, have joined forces to warn of the looming water crisis and to form a panel to tackle the “worldwide leadership gap” on the problem.Worldwide leadership gap. …
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: The House Sits! Let the Politics Begin!
Now that the house is now going to work we will see the the truth of the Conservative Government. The Conservatives now have there first speaker of the house. The Bloc will be sitting in four seats way in the back right next to Elisabeth May! Who was s…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Canada supports 1967 borders after all despite blocking this position at G8
Faced with significant pressure, Harper’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has affirmed that Canada does, in fact, support Obama’s position of using the 1967 borders with land swaps as a basis for a peace settlement between Israel and Palestine. In …
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: An Interesting Poll to Consider
A new poll shows that a majority of Canadians don’t really support Conservative policies. 53% said that they didn’t want the Corporate taxes to drop and only 39% agreed. On the Fighter jets 52% disagreed with a purchase and 37% agreed. On the Lo…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Global Food Prices May Double by 2030
What’s that awful sound? Could it be empty bellies – or is that the clarion call of war?Oxfam is warning that the already record-breaking price of staple foods could more than double by 2030. It says we’re embarking on an era of perma…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Afghanistan Mission – A "Great Success"
We have to look at this missionas a Great Success At least that’s how Furious Leader wants us to see the hapless campaign in Afghanistan. Our Ruler showed up in Kandahar with Mutt MacKay at his side to pronounce Canada’s mission to Afghanis…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Canada dutifully fulfills the US’s role towards Israel
Canadian policy and rhetoric has been staunchly pro-Israel for a long a time. It is a stance which, especially with Harper at the helm, arguably resulted in Canada’s inability to win a security council seat last year. However, despite adopting a positi…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The Coming Decline of Harper’s Values Coalition
Ipsos is predicting that Harper’s “values-based national coalition” of Tories might have a brighter future than the cobbled-together Mulroney coalition had:
Darrel Bricker of Ipsos
The interesting thing about what happened in this (May 2) election . ….
Polygonic: Some summit perspective
G8 times are here again! And France gets its day in the sun as host, which clearly heralds the ascent of a new French Order in Europe and the world. It will inevitably send their newspapers and TV chat hosts into a month-long tizzy of neurotic self-congratulation and overblown patriotism. Nicolas Sarkozy will almost certainly […]
The Wingnuterer: Personally I Blame Harper For This #0008
Cause there is no one else whom we can blame for this. This is all Harper doing, his plan, his actions and his words.
Jebus Fraking Cripsy,… wasn’t Raging PMS all for an elected Senate and at the bear minimum appointing people who had passed some sort of electoral process when possible. So I […]
CuriosityCat: Harper’s Right to Appoint Senators
Lot’s of faux indignation amongst media and bloggers and politicians over Harper’s decistion to appoint three senators, including two who ran for election to the House of Commons, and lost. To judge from the response by some, you would think that Harpe…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Harper’s anti-democratic senate appointments.
Harper has appointed three senate seats from among his party. Here is the kicker: these people just lost their election campaigns to be MP’s.
Opposed to supporting democratic influences it is actively rewarding loyal party members even thought they l…
Continue readingThe Wingnuterer: Personally I Blame Harper For This #0007
So the Christian Fundie-Retards have been embolden by the Rightwing Majority Rapture of orgasmic goodness know as Raging PMS and the SeePeeSee. They want everyone to know that abortion is wrong, that every egg is special, that every sperm is sacred. They also figure that good old PMS will now allow they to create a […]
Continue readingThe Wingnuterer: Personally I Blame Harper for This #0006
So good old Tony Clement, our Industry Ministry, is going to invite the Oily Bigwigs to Ottawa to explain to Canadians why oil/gas prices go up and go down,… but more up than down. I hear they will serve tea and crumpets.
Now no where does it say Tony is going to stop the Oily Bigwigs […]
The Happy Wanderer: Fiscally Reposible? Yeah Right
The Conservatives are going to reduce the Corporate taxes by more for next year. If this years budget passes (which of course it will) the corporate taxes will be 16.5% the next year the Harper Government wants to reduce it to 15%. The cost for these c…
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Deep Throat II
A sneak preview of how Canada will look after four (or five) years of unfettered majority rule by the Conservative Party, courtesy of Deep Throat II, who was given a copy of Harper’s Five Year Plan in a brown envelope in the Delta Hote…
Progressive Proselytizing: After an election about personalities, not policies, we can and must do better
We have just witness an election which while historic in many ways was not one of any significance in terms of a discussion of actual issues or policies. The political choices of all four major leaders – and we the audience who responds to them – focus…
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