Jason Kenney, leader of Alberta’s Conservative Opposition party, must’ve struggled yesterday to keep a smirk off his face as he bloviated piously about Kinder Morgan Inc. President Steven Kean’s rumination the time may be nigh to pull the plug on the controversial Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project that has the
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Montreal Simon: Michelle Rempel and the YouTube Bully Channel
We don't hear much from Michelle Rempel these days. Ever since her political sugar daddy Stephen Harper faded to black, or blue, her paint has been peeling off too.And she's not happy.Once she was a rising star, or at least that's what the Con media said. And she was in the news all
Continue readingdaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: The Energy East Blame Game. Who blames who?
Today’s announcement by the TransCanada Corporation that it would no longer pursue the construction of the Energy East Pipeline from Hardisty, Albert to St. John, New Brunswick triggered a storm of statements, accusations and criticisms from politicians trying to drive their political narratives. Here is a quick look at who is
Continue readingdaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Sturgeon River-Parkland by-election competing with Alberta’s municipal elections
As if voters won’t already have enough candidates knocking on their doors with Alberta’s municipal elections scheduled for October 16, 2017, a federal by-election will be held in the Sturgeon River-Parkland electoral district with a vote on October 23. It is widely expected that whoever wins the Conservative Party of
Continue readingdaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Mid-week Alberta Politics Roundup
Photo: Kent Hehr with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Calgary Stampede in July 2017. (Photo from Kent Hehr’s Facebook Page) It has been a busy week for me, so without the time to write a full column-type post, here is a quick summary of what I have been watching
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Creepy Bigot Party
For weeks the creepy Con Andrew Scheer has been tap dancing across Canada trying to convince Canadians that he's really a nice guy.Or as he likes to call himself Mr Positivity.After stabbing his country in the back in the manner of a traitor… But Scheer's Mr Nice Guy act was always
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer’s Fatal Con Bigot Mistake
It wasn't long ago that I told you that Andrew Scheer and his grubby Cons had dropped the Omar Khadr story like a hot potato.Or a poisonous snake.After spending days trashing our country in the United States for crass political purposes.And now we know why.Read more »
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: So Many Possible Labels, None Of Them Positive
There are many labels one could affix to the Conservative Party of Canada: opportunistic, divisive, demagogic, dishonest and principleless are but five that readily come to mind. However, perhaps the most immediately appropriate and withering is hypocritical. Hypocrisy is to be found in political parties of all stripes, but it
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Are The Cons Trying To Destroy Canadian Jobs?
The other day I accused Stephen Harper of acting in a treasonous manner, by trashing his country in Trump's America for crass political purposes.But now his filthy Harper Party has taken that traitorous behaviour one foul step further.By threatening to destroy tens of thousands of Canadian jobs.Read more »
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Conservative politicians’ reaction to PM’s missing-Alberta gaffe suggests they suffer from world-class insecurity
PHOTOS: Are the hillbillies above what our conservative politicians want the rest of Canada to think of when they hear the word Alberta? They should just stop! Below: Calgary Nose Hill MP Michelle Rempel (Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Robert Thivierge), Wildrose Party Leader Brian Jean, and Alberta’s grownup premier, Rachel Notley.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Michelle Rempel’s Outrageous Assault on Justin Trudeau
It's a sad thing, but Michelle Rempel's behaviour is starting to alarm a lot of people in Ottawa, or deeply concern them.For she just can't stop acting like she's boozed up, or stop directing torrents of abuse in the general direction of Justin Trudeau.I mean who can forget when she
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rona Ambrose, the Budget, and the Scandalous Cons
I almost felt sorry for Rona Ambrose yesterday, as she tried to say something intelligent about the Liberal's new budget. Only to fail miserably.And end up looking, once again, like the village idiot. Claiming that Liberal spending was out of control, and that it was a "nightmare scenario."Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Ugly Confusion of Michelle Rempel
You don't see or hear much about Michelle Rempel these days. Once she was a rising star in the Harper Party, and a legend in her own mind. But then Big Daddy went down with a sickening thud, and so did her political career.These days Rempel spends a lot of her time
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Ugly Confusion of Michelle Rempel
You don't see or hear much about Michelle Rempel these days. Once she was a rising star in the Harper Party, and a legend in her own mind. But then Big Daddy went down with a sickening thud, and so did her political career.These days Rempel spends a lot of her time
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: What it Means to Join a Political Party ( #cdnpoli )
A lot of people believe joining a political party means getting together and advancing policies and ideas that they collectively believe in. The truth is – the more important part about joining a political party is a willingness or a flexibility in advancing policies and ideas that you do not
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: What it Means to Join a Political Party ( #cdnpoli )
A lot of people believe joining a political party means getting together and advancing policies and ideas that they collectively believe in. The truth is – the more important part about joining a political party is a willingness or a flexibility in advancing policies and ideas that you do not
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Now Can We Call The Cons TEAM FART?
As you may have heard, Michelle Rempel has blown a fuse again, and has caused another unseemly fuss, or in this case stink, in the House of Commons.By accusing the government of treating Alberta "like a fart in the room."And then launching herself at the Green leader Elizabeth May like
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is the Harper Party Becoming the Trump Party?
As you know I always predicted that the Con leadership race was going to be a real circus.But who knew there would be so many candidates? Twelve and counting.Or that it would be such a fascist circus.For look who just joined the race.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Michelle Rempel and the Madness of Harperland
It could only happen in Alberta, or in the battered petro-state that Stephen Harper bequeathed this country formerly known as Harperland.For on the day that our parliament endorsed the Paris Climate Change Agreement. The House of Commons voted 207 to 81 to endorse the Paris agreement on climate change tonight, after
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Never-Ending Shame of Canada’s Trump Kellie Leitch
It’s hard to believe, it’s like a scene from a bad horror movie, or a return to Harperland,
But it seems Kellie Leitch is determined to become Canada’s Donald Trump.
For although her dog-whistle plan to screen immigrants for “anti-Canadian values” has been roundly condemned.
She just doesn’t care.
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