A follow-up here to a post from a few weeks back. Remember Jason Kenney’s announcement on dialing back health care benefits for refugees? It was couched in a way that suggested that refugees were getting better health care benefits than Canadians. It was meant to sow resentment against refugees, people
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David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Black is the new Red: Why Stephen & Jason love Conrad more than they love Canadians
Powerful symbolism, no matter how you look at it: Lord and Lady Black. Below: Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Let’s be honest with ourselves, Canadians. Did any of us ever truly doubt – even for an instant – that the “Conservative” government of Stephen Harper would not welcome Conrad Black back
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Today’s anniversary of a year of Tory rule in Ottawa: it just doesn’t get any better than this!
Contemplating the thought of three more years of Stephen Harper. Below: Mr. Harper himself. Tory times, as the old saying goes, are terrible times. So it should surprise no one that as we mark the first anniversary of Stephen Harper’s majority victory today, the country is increasingly polarized, students are
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: About Conrad Black’s return: surely Canadians deserve honest answers
Lord Black gesticulates at Communications Energy and Paperworkers Local 115A President Andy Marshall in 1999. Below: Omar Khadr, Jason Kenney, George Galloway, Farouk Adatia. Let’s mark this international day of the worker by having a grown-up discussion about the readmission to Canada of Conrad Black, the former Canadian citizen and
Continue readingImpolitical: The Conservatives and their very small Canada
You can see it today in this initiative: “Refugee health benefits scaled back by Tories.” It’s an appeal to people’s me-first instincts, asking Canadians to be insular and resentful of the foreigner among us. Asking Canadians to be ungenerous toward some of the most vulnerable peoples in the world, refugees
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Ethincal Oil Orders Canada Revenue Agency to Investigate the David Suzuki Foundation
During the 2012 federal budget, the Conservative government allocated $8 million to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to crackdown on charities engaged in “political activities.” The purge has begun. Yesterday, the right-wing Big Oil lobby group, EthicalOil.org, dispatched a 44-page … Continue reading →
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On short-sightedness
Others have already drawn parallels between the Cons’ plan to require Employment Insurance recipients to accept whatever low-paying temporary work might be available as a condition of receiving the benefits they’ve paid into, and other attacks on individual workers such as workfare and forced relocation. But let’s take a closer
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: the reform-conservative family feud continues in alberta’s election.
Wildrose is under attack! The same people that caused the Liberal Party of Canada to be in power for 13 uninterrupted years now have Wildrose in their crosshairs. They want nothing more than to see the Redford PCs re-elected to impose their big government knows best, ivory tower views on
Continue readingTrashy's World: You may have noticed that…
… while I don’t have a whole lot of respect for most CPC MPs (not all – there are some who are less morality-challenged than others), a few stand out from the others in my version of the Canadian Political Hall of Shame. Notable among these intellect-challenged excuses for servants
Continue readingTrashy's World: Friday miscellany…
Jason Kenney edition. Is Jason Kenney Canada’s Joseph McCarthy? I think so… OTTAWA — New Democratic Party MP Don Davies says it never occurred to him when he innocuously snapped a photo at an anti-racism march in Vancouver last month that he would suddenly become the latest target in an
Continue readingCongrats on the imminent win Thomas Muclair. But if you really want to be PM, lose the beard.
It’s been years AC (After Chretien) and the Liberals continue to demonstrate that they have no clue about winning. The NDP is not any better. Both parties still live in the fantasy world of BC (Before Chretien) when politics was a gentleman’s game. Beaten around the head and shoulders by
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Another Victory for the Star: The Harper Government Blinks
The Globe and Mail arrogantly proclaims itself to be ‘Canada’s national newspaper’ and ‘Canada’s paper of record.’ It is a self-proclaimed designation that I have longed disagreed with, so much so that I eventually cancelled my long-standing subscription to it some time ago, substituting the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest-circulation newspaper.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Alison draws the links between Robocon and an American firm proud of its efforts in some of the Republicans’ most odious causes, while Sixth Estate provides a timeline of shady election dealings by the Harper Cons. Dr. Dawg asks the media to stay
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: One Young Staffer is Not Enough
Conservative operative Michael Sona, is taking the fall for the voter suppression scandal and has resigned as a staffer. What the conservatives would like us to believe is that he acted alone. Give me a break. Sona, in the background during Ezra Levant’s sponsorship of Ann Coulter, is a product
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to end your week. – Sure, it’s a plus to know that Canada’s military is ready and willing to leap into action to protect what matters most to the government of the day. Now if only that meant something other than serving as political operatives to protect the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The outrage against the Cons’ total online surveillance scheme continues, with Dan Leger, Mia Rabson and Michael Geist adding noteworthy comments to the mix. – Meanwhile, the Star rightly criticizes the latest legislation to hand Con cabinet ministers the power to make
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: So What Does Larry Miller Think of Jason Kenney’s Hitler-Like Move?
‘Walking past the hundreds of stately Somali refugees lined up outside the gates of the UN High Commission for Refugees here in Nairobi — men in tidy shirts and slacks, women in baby blue, fuchsia or copper chadors — the pasty face of Jason Kenney floats into my mind. Later,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – David Climenhaga marvels at the fact that the Fraser Institute manages to claim charitable status while serving as an entirely political organization: The Fraser Institute is serious all right, although its research is not serious in the normal sense of transparency and lack
Continue readingLaw is Cool: Islamophobia in Canada: A Primer
by Fathima Cader and Sumayya Kassamali Ten years after September 11, 2001, the term “Islamophobia,” once largely obscure, has become all but inevitable when discussing contemporary politics. As Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden became household names, Western fear of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims has also grown. Canada has been
Continue readingImpolitical: Exposing the fakery matters
On the news of the fake citizenship reaffirmation ceremony hosted at Sun News at the urging of Jason Kenney’s office, Chris Selley of the National Post concluded this about the episode last week: “But that’s just the usual stuff and nonsense. I don’t see how any of it makes a
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