If a tree falls in the forest and Jason Kenney isn’t there to hear it, is it still the sound of European environmentalists and the Rockefellers plotting against Alberta’s ethical oil industry? Is it still Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s fault? Your blogger only spent three days on B.C.’s misty and
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Montreal Simon: How Justin Trudeau Helped Make Trump A Laughing Stock
Well just as I predicted, the Trudeau Trump fake scandal went nowhere in Canada, and expired shortly after it was born. Despite the frantic efforts of Vassy Kapelos, and other CBC minions, who blew that teeny tiny fluffy story until their faces turned blue, to try to bring it back to life.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Media and the Fake Trudeau Trump Scandal
For more than two years the CBC program Power and Politics has been a television playground for Andrew Scheer and his foul Cons.A place where Vassy Kapelos and her mostly right wing panellists use one fake scandal after the other to try to destroy Justin Trudeau, while allowing Scheer to corrupt our
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: When something becomes A Thing
And the NATO “hot microphone” thing has indeed turned into A Thing. My regular readers didn’t care what I had to say about it, either: Conservative followers and friends were incensed. Still smarting from the election result, they pounced on Justin Trudeau’s unguarded remarks. It was shocking, they claimed, that
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Rupert Neate writes about the twelve-figure tax avoidance by the U.S.’ largest tech firms, while noting that Amazon stands out as the worst offender. And Meagan Day interviews Ramesh Srninivasan about the need to democratize the administration of the Internet. – Meanwhile,
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Tory war: keeping score
So, back in the good old days, when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth and Jesus was a little fella, you were given a couple chances to become Prime Minister or Premier. That’s how it was done. Nowadays, with a news cycle of 10 seconds, and Facebook and Twitter and Instagram
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Hey Canada! Alberta here: Get off our lawn! And would you mow it, please?
Watch out, Rest of Canada! Jason Kenney, our leader here in Alberta, has mastered the art of sucking and blowing at the same time! You’re in for it now! This is the New Alberta, and you’re going to need to get the hell out of our way! We’ll be taking
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jason Hickel observes that what progress has been made in human health and quality of life is the result of progressive policies, not leaving plutocrats to do what they will: (S)ocial services require resources. And it’s important to recognise that growth can help
Continue readingAlberta Politics: No way Conservatives will admit they look foolish for calls to legislate CN strikers back to work
Now that a tentative agreement in the national strike by 3,200 CN yard workers and train crew members has been reached in collective bargaining as God and the Canada Industrial Relations Board both intended, you’d think the Conservative politicians who were screeching for Ottawa to intervene and order the strikers
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Alberta union leaders summoned to provocative weekend ‘consultation’ by Kenney Government
Alberta union leaders have been summoned to a “labour relations consultation” next weekend in Edmonton at which they will be informed how Premier Jason Kenney’s government plans to “protect workers from being forced to fund political parties and causes.” The announcement of the one-hour meetings came in an email from
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Why I’m not so critical about Justin Trudeau lately
As regular customers know, I’m a Democrat. Large “D.” I work on Democratic Party campaigns as a volunteer. In 2016, I worked for Hillary in three states, including her Brooklyn headquarters. I’ve volunteered for Democrats for as long as I can remember. But I’m also a democrat, small “D.” I
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Booing Alberta’s premier at public events like Sunday’s Grey Cup — let’s make it a Battle of Alberta thing!
Is the United Conservative Party’s honeymoon over? God knows, it ought to be. Sadly, though, it’s probably not. Yet. Just the same, it was mildly encouraging to hear a few boos for Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in a recording of the the opening ceremony of Sunday’s Grey Cup game —
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Big Red Machine
Well at least now we know why Andrew Scheer has been keeping such a low profile, and looking so weird or so paranoid..It seems he's been trying to recover from his humiliating election defeat, and figure out who to blame.And now at last he claims he knows.Read more »
Continue readingAlberta Politics: What media mostly misses about the national rail strike by CN train crews and yard workers
Here in Alberta, what news coverage there has been about the strike for safer working conditions by Canadian National Railway train crews and rail yard workers has focused on the increasingly agitated calls by Conservative politicians for punitive back-to-work legislation. There is very little reporting on the issues behind the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer’s Ugly Gay Problem Comes Back To Bite Him
In my last post I looked at the ugly way Andrew Scheer reacted to the swearing in of Justin Trudeau's new cabinet.And I suggested he was still bitter at the way Trudeau had humiliated him.But now I think something else was also bothering him.He was hearing the sound of sharpening
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Justin Trudeau 2.0 And The Road To A New Majority
I really liked the swearing in of Justin Trudeau's new cabinet. I thought the prime minister looked rested and ready to take on the Con separatists.I was impressed that both Jim Carr and Dominic LeBlanc made it to the ceremony even though both are being treated for cancer.And I really
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Uh oh! Those perfidious Swedes have clearly joined the anti-Alberta energy ‘misinformation campaign of defamation’!
Why, those perfidious Swedes! First they sent their sneaky little agent Greta Thunberg in a sailboat to Alberta’s shores to stir up our young people — and that’s no mean feat when you consider that we don’t have any shores here in Alberta! Which, as we keep telling the rest
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Justin Trudeau and the Con Babies
It couldn’t have been easy for Andrew Scheer to meet with the man he had demonized for so long, but still managed to defeat him. And the more Justin Trudeau smiled, the more humiliating it must have been.Although it couldn’t have been that enjoyable for Trudeau. He may have forced
Continue readingAlberta Politics: It turns out the UCP’s dream of grabbing the Canada Pension Plan won’t be as easy as it would like you to believe
How much of the United Conservative Party’s radical project to transform Alberta into a dystopic firewalled statelet, most of the details of which were revealed by Premier Jason Kenney for the first time at Preston Manning’s Red Deer clambake on Saturday, was predicated on a Conservative victory in last month’s
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