The always bubbling in the background chatter about thedream of a few to see the Liberals and NDP to merge or form some sort ofcoalition came to the surface again recently with comments made by Liberal MPJustin Trudeau in Victoria and broadcast by Sun TV. Here’s a snippet: “By 2015,
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Interesting Words From Justin Trudeau
Though not quite as definitive as WK seems to think. And Justin’s particular suggestion– a panicked attempt at merger in the runup to the 2015 election if the polls look crappy– will not end well for anyone, let alone our poor nation. And I am also not yet convinced that the
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OTTAWA – Sun News Network has landed a knockout by winning the exclusive television rights to bring the hugely anticipated boxing match between Senator Patrick Brazeau and MP Justin Trudeau into the homes of Canadians. …and so will everyone else. FWIW, I’m betting on the FBI, but I won’t tell
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: I love Canada…so long as I run it
Justin Trudeau raised a bit of a stir last week with his comments that he’d consider supporting Quebec separatism if the Harper government took Canada too far to the right. Most have already weighed in on this, and my opinion comes closest to Andrew Coyne’s: I don’t doubt that some
Continue readingPample the Moose: Canada at the breaking point? Justin Trudeau, Le Devoir and Me
Just a quick post this weekend to link to a story in Le Devoir today by Guillaume Bourgault-Côté, occasioned by Justin Trudeau’s recent remarks about how the possibility of living in a Canada whose identity actually did correspond to the refashioning that PM Harper has undertaken could make him contemplate
Continue readingMontreal Simon: In Defence of Justin Trudeau
Oh fuddle duddle, or merde as we say in Quebec. I see Justin Trudeau is in trouble again. “I always say, if at a certain point, I believe that Canada was really the Canada of Stephen Harper – that we were going against abortion, and we were going against gay
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Canada, we have a problem! We have a problem and its name is the Conservative Party of Canada. Sovereignty not the boogeyman it once was. Really, it’s not. If you think it is, then you don’t understand what happened during the last election and why Québec voted the way it
Continue readingVikileaks lights up Twitter with alleged details of Vic "Minister of Family Values" Toews divorce
@vikileaks30 has caught the attention of more than 850 followers since yesterday when details from affidavits of Vic Toew’s divorce began appearing on Twitter. Even the MSM has caught on. The Straight thinks @vikileaks30 is teaching Mr. Toews a lesson in online privacy. Here’s a sample: While this is obviously a
Continue readingBlunt Objects: On the Younger Trudeau
I think Justin was just trying to make a rhetorical statement about the direction the government of Stephen Harper, rather than it being a serious statement about thinking Quebec should separate. Moreover, I doubt that he’s alone, not just in Quebec, but across Canada. I mean, hell, how many times
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Ah, Question Period
The subject of Canada’s new trans-unfriendly airport screening regulations was brought up in the House of Commons during question period this week. Check out these videos of Randall Garrison and Dany Morin speaking in support of trans Canadians amidst jeers from the Conservative party, as well as a clip from Liberal
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: An update on all the people not running for Liberal leadership
It’s been six months since I last looked in on the field of possible Liberal leadership candidates, and that’s because, well, there’s not much to report. Apart from speculation surrounding the interim leader, there’s been little chatter in the media, on blogs, or in Liberal circles. However, the Liberal Biennial
Continue readingBlunt Objects: WTF Polling: Trudeau-led LPC would Tie with Cons, NDP?
I heard it mentioned first in this Toronto Star article. It’s apparently a poll done by a firm called Robbins SCE back in December. I remember Robbins doing a series of BC polls late last year (which were removed from Wikipedia due to not being considered a major pollster), but
Continue readingLeftist Jab: Justin Trudeau Agrees To Get Beaten Up For A Good Cause
Justin Trudeau’s training regimen. On March 31st, 2012, Justin Trudeau will likely be splayed out on a boxing ring, concussed and bleeding, wondering what happened. That’s because he agreed to fight Patrick Brazeau, 37, in an amateur boxing fight. Brazeau is mostly known for being the youngest senator currently serving
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Your seasonal anti-social-media message: Have a V**y Me**y Christmas!
Pierre Trudeau: What? Fuddle-Duddle? Below: Justin Trudeau; Pat Martin. O Sir, we quarrel in print… I blame Twitter, one of the first examples of genuinely anti-social media online, for the recent decline in the already debased state of public discourse in Canada. Leastways, Twitter certainly makes it easy to slam
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: On Justin Trudeau
Love the passion, hate the beard. Like my stylist used to say: you’re gorgeous; you shouldn’t be covering that face with hair. I went to that guy for years.
Continue readingTrashy's World: Friday miscellany – pizzachick, chic hotels and Christopher Hitchens…
…I might be going out on a limb here… but I am predicting a green Christmas in Ottawa. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— At the risk of being flamed, I gotta say that I didn’t understand what all the fuss was about after hearing Trudeau call Kent a pizzachick! I don’t know what that
Continue reading350 or bust: Canada’s New Climate Buddy: Russia
Canada has been under fire internationally for the Harper government’s recent announcement of its intention to pull out of the only international treaty that attempts to address the climate crisis, the Kyoto Protocol. China, Japan, France, India, and Tuvalu, a small island state at risk from climate change, have all
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Trudeau’s S-Bomb
As I’m sure everyone knows by now, in parliament yesterday, Liberal MP and Guy Fawkes impersonator Justin Trudeau called Environment Minister Peter Kent a “piece of shit.” Despite being factually accurate, Trudeau subsequently apologized unreservedly to the House for his “decidedly unparliamentary” remark. Speaking on CTV’s “Power Play” later in
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Fuddle Dudde Encore
Justin Trudeau had his fuddle duddle moment yesterday. When Environment Minister Peter Kent responded to Megan Leslie’s criticism of the Conservatives performance at Durban by saying she had no right to criticize the government because she had not been there, Trudeau lost his cool. After all, it has been long
Continue readingbastard.logic: …and Michael Moore is FAT!
Terry Glavin, last True Leftist™ in Canada, finds the late, lamented Kyoto treaty (and environmentalism in general) wanting — and apparently it’s all Al Gore’s fault. No, really: Kyoto could have been an instrument to force technological innovation in the world’s advanced economies in such a way as to clear a
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