PHOTOS: ‘Super PACs’ have access to corporate vaults, and very little control or oversight of what they do with the money they’re given. Below: Alberta Prosperity Fund Director Barry McNamar, APF Advisory Council members Dave Rutherford and Camer…
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LeDaro: Santa’s gift to Justin Trudeau
Justin Trudeau has already received his Christmas gift from the Santa. Now he should be generous to his fellow Canadians. Accepting refugees from Syria is a good start. We are lucky that we don’t have meanie like Donald Trump.
Continue readingLeDaro: Santa’s gift to Justin Trudeau
Justin Trudeau has already received his Christmas gift from the Santa. Now he should be generous to his fellow Canadians. Accepting refugees from Syria is a good start. We are lucky that we don’t have meanie like Donald Trump.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The New Canada and the Evil Darkness of the Cons
It hasn't yet snowed in the place where I live, and I'm having a hard time believing it's almost Christmas.Although goodness knows Justin Trudeau is doing his best to get us into the spirit of the holiday season, with this performance at…
Continue readingEh Types: A Picture of Victory
Last week the eyes of the world again turned towards Canada’s new government, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Pictures circled the globe, showing him on hand to personally greet Syrian refugees arriving in Toronto. His critics predictably dismisse…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Incredible Nerve of the Con Clown Lisa Raitt
As we all know from the moment Justin Trudeau was sworn in, the Con media has been claiming that he is breaking one promise after another.And nobody has been screaming that louder, than the gang at Postmedia.So I wasn't surprised to see the old Ha…
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Compassion confounds Conservatives
I get the feeling that Conservative supporters are confounded Canadians like a PM with compassion. Amongst the sites that still allow comment sections (and that number is shrinking, but that’s another story), on any given story that shows Prime M…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, expanding on these posts as to what might come next as Canada’s political parties map out their strategies on electoral reform.For further reading…- Chantal Hebert wonders whether Justin Trudeau will face internal pressure to renege on his prom…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Justin Trudeau and the New Politics of Nice
I'm going to have to try to restrain myself from saying nice things about Justin Trudeau, lest people start thinking I'm running one of his many fan clubs.Which since I voted for the NDP might be called fraudulent, or get me killed by one of m…
Continue readingMichal Rozworski: Questions for the Canadian left
Harper is gone, but (as a friend only quarter-jokingly said) we got the second worst outcome sold as the best, so now what? That’s the 10 second version of this post. I want to throw up a few questions or, better yet, problems that I think the Canadian left will have to face together over […]
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Justin Trudeau and the Signs of the New Canada
It was an amazing sight, and yet another sign that we are living in a very different Canada.For there in the massive Eaton Centre mall, a place so full of frenzied shoppers these days I dare not enter it, was Justin Trudeau.Mingling with real Canadians…
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Hunting for hangover remedies with Bill Bennett and other tall tales from Social Credit British Columbia
PHOTOS: Former British Columbia Social Credit Party Premier Bill Bennett on the steps of the B.C. Legislature in Victoria. Below: Another shot of Mr. Bennett, who died on Dec. 3, looking a little shaggy; NDP Premier Dave Barrett; W.A.C. Bennett, B.C.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why It’s Suddenly Cool To Be A Canadian Again
It's hard to believe, but it looks as if we can safely sew those little Canadian flags on the back of our backpacks again.After having to remove them during the Harper years.And travel around the world dressed like this…Because thanks to Justin T…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Something The Extreme Right-Wing Cannot Take From Us
… is our renewed pride as Canadians, exemplified by scenes like this, found on The New York Times website:Recommend this Post
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Michael Harris on the Trudeau Derangement Syndrome
As I've said before, the way the Cons and the Con media have gone after Justin Trudeau from the moment he was sworn in, couldn't be more unfair or more disgusting.They have gone after his children, they have gone after his wife.They have accus…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On managing the system
Following up on this post, there doesn’t seem to be much prospect of the Cons making any effort to pursue proportional representation as an alternative to a ranked ballot if Tasha Kheiriddin’s latest reflects their’ thinking. But I’ll point out that th…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how the Libs’ first major budgetary choice has been to continue the Cons’ dangerous pattern of chipping away at the federal government’s fiscal capacity.For further reading…- Scott Clark and Peter DeVries have previously summarized the…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Rona Ambrose Stared Into The Abyss
It was only Rona Ambrose's third Question Period as Leader of the Opposition. And there she was yesterday, trying to look like she's really in control of her shattered party, that she knows what she's doing.And that she's the steady ha…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Friends in high places: changing the HST in a hurry #nlpoli
According to a statement from the federal finance department on Wednesday, “the federal government will take any necessary steps to ensure that the [HST] rate increase does not come into effect on January 1, 2016.” [CBC] That came out of the…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Priorities
The Libs’ top 10% tax giveaway will cost a total of a previously unbudgeted $1.2 billion per year. And that apparently hasn’t caused anybody to think twice about whether it’s a good idea. For the sake of comparison, the Libs’ total commitment to the en…
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