PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, running the province as if she had a majority government! What next? Below: University of Calgary political scientist and Calgary Herald columnist Barry Cooper, Broadbent Institute Director Rick Smith and Wildrose…
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Montreal Simon: Justin Trudeau and the Big Dream Challenge
This is how the Cons and their supporters in the MSM like to portray Justin Trudeau.As a hopelessly idealistic Don Quijote tilting at windmills, with promises that are made to be broken.And dreams that are too big for Canada.But what I would say to th…
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Why Canada’s belligerent Conservatives are likely praying for peace in the Persian Gulf
PHOTOS: The nuclear powered American aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in the Persian Gulf in in 2014. (U.S. Navy photo.) Mighty warships are the carriers, but in the constricted waters of the Gulf, vulnerable nevertheless. Below: A map of the Gulf…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Crazy America, Canada, and the Right-Wing Menace
It should be obvious by now that Donald Trump is taking the United States to a very bad place.And that the bigoted demagogue is stirring up ignorant and violent right-wing extremists all over that country.As well as being a poster boy for Islamic terro…
Continue readingLeDaro: Alan Kurdi’s Family Begins New Life as Refugees in Canada
TUE, DEC 29The Syrian family became symbols of the refugee crisis after photos of the family’s boy, who washed up dead, on a Turkish beach, sparked international outrage. NBCThis is very encouraging.
Continue readingLeDaro: Alan Kurdi’s Family Begins New Life as Refugees in Canada
TUE, DEC 29 The Syrian family became symbols of the refugee crisis after photos of the family’s boy, who washed up dead, on a Turkish beach, sparked international outrage. NBC This is very encouraging.
Continue readingLeDaro: Alan Kurdi’s Family Begins New Life as Refugees in Canada
TUE, DEC 29The Syrian family became symbols of the refugee crisis after photos of the family’s boy, who washed up dead, on a Turkish beach, sparked international outrage. NBCThis is very encouraging.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, expanding on this post about Brad Wall’s sad attempt to beg Justin Trudeau for federal money to make up for his own mismanagement. For further reading…- Once again, Wall’s call for a bailout was here. And his previous decision to drop any attem…
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Year in review: from plunging oil to rising hope, the Top Ten news stories of 2015
PHOTOS: Cameras try to follow a nearly invisible Rachel Notley through the crowd at an Edmonton hotel on May 5, 2015, moments after she had been declared the winner of the Alberta election. No one could quite believe that the NDP had just won a majorit…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Matthew Yglesias writes that The Big Short and other stories focused on the financial aspects of the 2008 economic meltdown miss by far the most important part of the picture in the real economic destruction wro…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The New Canada and the Two Justins
As I try to remember all the things that happened in this wild and crazy year that was both our nightmare and our salvation, two things keep jumping out at me.One, how low Stephen Harper and his ghastly Cons did drag us and our democracy, and shame us…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On selective equalization
So apparently some unspecified event in federal politics this fall has caused Brad Wall to start demanding money from Ottawa which he’d never have considered seeking before. Now if only he hadn’t trashed Saskatchewan’s bargaining position by dropping t…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On failed diversions
Not surprisingly given my previous comments on the Libs’ electoral reform promise, it’s a plus that they’re sticking with it rather than giving in to any demand for a referendum. And hopefully the temporary diversion raised by the Cons will lead the pa…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How Low Will the Cons Go to Smear Justin Trudeau?
Let it not be said that the Cons will stop at anything to try to bring down Justin Trudeau.Or that Trudeau isn't driving the Cons CRAAAAZY.For there was Stephen Harper's former flak Andrew MacDougall yesterday, trying to ruin Justin's Chris…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Celebrating a Trudeau Christmas in the New Canada
It's Christmas Day, and although it's a bit gloomy out there because it won't be a white Christmas in the place where I live.It seems to me that the lights have never shone brighter, after Harperland's long night.And never has there …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how the kindness and compassion underlying our welcoming of Syrian refugees deserves a far larger place in a wide range of public policy decisions.For further reading…- Zack Beauchamp summarizes the exclusionary rhetoric that’s propelled Don…
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Christmas in Wildrose Country: That noise on the roof may not be Santa Claus! It could be the UN, here to steal your turnips!
ILLUSTRATIONS: Will Santa have to come armed and armoured like this to be safe on Alberta rooftops in case the province’s loony right mistakes him for a UN trooper bent on world government and turnip confiscation? Below: Wildrose MLA Rick Strankman a…
Continue readingdaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: 2015 was a great year for Progressive Politics in Alberta
It was an exciting year to be a progressive in Alberta. May 5, 2015 marked the first time since the 1930s that a conservative party did not win a provincial election in Alberta. The defeat of the Progressive Conservative government, which had… Cont…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Ronald Inglehart discusses the political roots of inequality – and the likelihood that the forces that have allowed it to fester for decades will eventually be reversed:New political alignments, in sho…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Remembering Harperland’s Last Nightmare Before Christmas
As you know I have been having a bit of trouble getting into the spirit of the season.It has been dark and gloomy and foggy where I live, and so warm the skates stick to the ice, it's hard to believe it's winter in Canada.And what with being fo…
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