There are those who say we should be bracing ourselves for the return of President Steve. Say it ain’t so! Stephen Harper (Photo: Remy Steinegger, Creative Commons). We can expect know today if Stephen Harper is going to re-emerge to make a re-run to re-lead the Conservative Party of Canada
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Montreal Simon: Is Andrew Scheer Still Fighting The Last Election?
I knew that Andrew Scheer would absolutely hate the Throne Speech, because it never mentioned the holy words "ALBERTA, SASKATCHEWAN, OIL, and PIPELINES.But did promise that the Trudeau government would step up the fight against climate change, which Scheer doesn't believe in.And I knew that he needed to make as
Continue readingThe Daveberta Podcast: Episode 40: Alberta Politics and Federal Election Q&A
We are back from our summer break with a special Question and Answer edition of the Daveberta Podcast. Dave dives deep into our mailbag to answer some of the great Alberta politics and federal election questions our listeners have sent in over the past few weeks. Thanks to our producer, Adam
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Michelle Rempel and the Angry Canadians
In my last post I looked at the sad case of Michelle Rempel, and what her new American husband thinks of Canada. Which isn't very nice, but Rempel still thinks is hilarious.So I thought I'd share what some Canadians think of her and her husband.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Does Michelle Rempel Hate Canada So Much?
As you may know, I'm not a member of the Michelle Rempel fan club. I consider her one of the most aggressive members of the Con cult. She's always making wild accusations, and complaining that Alberta is getting screwed by the rest of Canada.She insults the Prime Minister all the time
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How I Tried And Failed To Escape The Fake Scandal
As the Great Polar Bear God of the Great White North knows, I did everything I could this weekend to try to escape the fake scandal.I went over to the island and finished painting my friend's sailboat. I read a lot of stuff but nothing about Canadian politics. I hung out
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Monstrous Cons and the Hate That Kills
It's now been two years since Alexandre Bissonnette walked into a mosque in Quebec City and opened fire.He killed six people, and wounded five others, as 35 other worshippers including several children looked on in horror. The next day Bissonnette told police he had attacked the mosque, because he was worried refugees
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: Rempelsputin: An Experiment In Political Thinskinnedness
Ra ra RempelsputinLover of the Twitter BlockThere was a cat with really thin skin… When I was relatively new to Twitter there was a urban legend that I heard about on Canadian political Twitter about a politician who would block anyone for any reason. Michelle Rempel, a newish Calgary MP,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Lisa Raitt and the Con Waahmbulance Chasers
In my last post I looked at how Lisa Raitt had finally managed to provoke Justin Trudeau into losing his temper, and letting the Cons know how he felt about the way they were turning our parliament into sewer.And the way Andrew Scheer's perverted Harperite cult was using a murdered child
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Free Trade Victory and the Con Losers
For some reason I remember that cartoon well, even though it was published in January 2017, when Chrystia Freeland had just replaced Stephane Dion as Minister of Foreign Affairs.And Canadians wondered how she would do when pitted against the King Kong in the White House.And the answer came in yesterday.Read more
Continue readingdaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Doug Schweitzer wins UCP nomination in Calgary-Elbow, Danielle Larivee selected as NDP candidate in Lesser Slave Lake
Photo: Doug Schweitzer, Danielle Larivee, Travis Toews, and Mo Elsalhy. Former United Conservative Party leadership candidate Doug Schweitzer defeated past city council candidate Chris Davis to secure his party’s nomination in Calgary-Elbow on September 13, 2018. As noted last week, Schweitzer is a lawyer who briefly considered running for the PC Party
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Maxime Bernier Opens the Diversity Debate
What lunacy is this? Maxime Bernier’s twitter rant condemning Justin Trudeau’s “extreme multiculturalism” policies ended with Bernier exiting stage (far) right, Andrew Scheer promising to fight asylum seekers who jump the queue and Michelle Rempel announcing the “Pathway to Canada” tour to consult with Canadians about immigration issues. Assuming Mr
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Monstrous Cons and the New Old Racist Game
It's the kind of thing that can ruin your evening. You come home, you turn on the TV, and there's Michelle Rempel, the new take no prisoners/ don't f**k with me Rempel, auditioning for the part of Canada's Marine Le Pen. It doesn't get much worse than that. But Rempel's performance yesterday
Continue readingAlberta Politics: U.S. and Canadian right-wing politicians march in lockstep as they dismiss facts as conspiracy, disagreement as criminality
Apparently infected by the decline of political discourse in the United States, the Canadian right is increasingly moving toward defining the use of facts that run counter to its narrative as conspiracy and policy disagreement criminality. If you doubt this, consider recent Tweets by the likes of Calgary Conservative MP
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Convention and the Madness of Michelle Rempel
As you can imagine, Andrew Scheer is looking a little beleaguered. Like a man on the edge of a cliff, or a nervous breakdown. But then who can blame him? His big shiny Con convention is now less than a week away, and it's all going horribly wrong. Maxime Bernier
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Michelle Rempel Was Made To Look Like An Idiot. Again.
A few days ago I wrote a post accusing Michelle Rempel of whipping up hatred against asylum seekers for crass political purposes.And of being totally out of control.So I'm glad to see that even some of her colleagues now share that view.Especially the hapless Con clown Erin O'Toole.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Michelle Rempel and the Racist Cons
Michelle Rempel likes to pose as the political equivalent of Little Miss Muffet. A tiny shining light of decency in a world full of nasty scary spiders. Liberal spiders who are always attacking her, or discreetly suggesting she's a drunk. And Con spiders who won't recognize her "greatness" or make her
Continue readingdaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Episode 15: Politicians pretending to be Cowboys. It’s Stampede Week in Calgary!
It is Calgary Stampede season, which means politicians from across Canada are flocking to Alberta’s largest city to show off their recently purchased plaid shirts and cowboy hats. In this episode of the Daveberta Podcast, Dave Cournoyer and Ryan Hastman discuss politicians pretending to be cowboys, the latest federal and provincial nomination news, including
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Michelle Rempel and the Fake News Threat
The years since her beloved sugar daddy Stephen Harper left her, have not been kind to Michelle Rempel.Once she was a rising star, now not so much. Once the old men in the Con media used to fall over themselves trying to impress her. Now she has to work really hard to try
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Toronto Tragedy and the Trump Party Cons
It was already a horrible tragedy, an act of insane violence or murderous misogyny. The alleged attacker had posted praise for a mass murderer in the United States who was part of the “incel” movement – a women-hating collection of “involuntarily celibate” men in online forums and other sites frustrated
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