Kootenay-Columbia NDP candidate Mark Shmigelsky has a gun registry plan. It’s not a very good plan but it is his plan:If the gun registry issues comes again I will sit down with Rod & Gun clubs to find how we all feel, whether we are for it or again…
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Cowboys for Social Responsibility: Another simple question about the long gun registry
If an experienced NDP candidate in rural Central Alberta can stand up for the long gun registry, why won’t Jack Layton?
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Canada’s 2011 Federal Election: ’tis better to have loved and lost . . .
With the annual retreat of snow and ice blessedly underway, the crap and crud that mysteriously didn’t make it into my back lane dumpster is revealed in all of its putrescence. I call this a mystery because I don’t know how apparently sentient, reasonably healthy, bipedally-capable adults with opposable thumbs could miss the dumpster’s gaping […]
Continue readingAkaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Akaash Maharaj – Global News: Analysis of the NDP Platform
My analysis of the NDP’s platform for Global Television News. It has proven to be a politically shrewd, but fiscally improbable document. Ultimately, could Layton deliver on his his five key areas during his first 100 days, as he promises? Not unless t…
Continue readingMadLibMadLib: Democracy Debated? Or Democracy Debased?
So the boys have thrown down. The Conservative Leader, Mr. Harper, issued the challenge this morning to Mr. Ignatieff, the Liberal Leader, that they should have a one-on-one debate between the two candidates who, at least in the words of John Baird, are the only men running to become Prime
Continue readingNikki Inouye: NDP candidate for Okanagan Shuswap
I’ve learned who the local NDP candidate for the Okanagan Shuswap is. Nikki Inouye.Here’s from her bio on the NDP website:Nikki Inouye was born and raised in the Okanagan Valley.Nikki has been an active member of the BC Hospital Employee’s Union for …
Continue readingPop The Stack: Every Vote is a Strategic Vote
Fellow DemReform blogger CuriosityCat has a great post today on a little tidbit that passed the lips of Jack Layton: “The way to stop Stephen Harper from getting a majority is to take Conservative seats one by one, and defeat the MPs who are there. That’s how you stop Mr. Harper from getting a majority,” I […]
Continue readingCanadian Federal Election 2011
It’s exciting. It’s an election! The government has fallen, and it’s now our chance to kick the bums out of office.I’ll definitely volunteer my time to help the NDP in my riding, which is now the Shuswap (sorry, Thompson), as I’ve been living here the …
Continue readingLibya bombing mission – the NDP should not have supported this fools errand
Canadian CF-18s bomb Libyan ammunition depotHonestly, all the political parties supported this ‘mission’, but it’s disheartening to have the Dippers join in on this. Honestly, we’re stretched thin by Afghanistan. We should be out of Afghanistan, by now…
Continue readingCensus vote!
The House of Commons will vote on a motion to call on the Government to reinstate the long form census, about 40 minutes from now. It is known that the Liberals, NDP, and Bloc will all support the motion, with the Conservatives likely voting against it…
Continue readingPop The Stack: Free Votes Are Nice But…Who Do Those MPs Represent?
Ah, the gun registry. I agree with FarAndWide completely on this. The NDP are planning to allow a free vote of all their members on the issue, even though the party advises savng the regsitry. Free votes are nice in principle, and if we had a truly representative parliament where the people in Ottawa actually […]
Continue readingThus Prate the Pundit » Social Critique: Time to Establish a Green Social Democratic Party (GSDP)
Why is there both a New Democratic Party (NDP) and a Green Party? Examine them, really read their positions and philosophies. The two parties are essentially the same and where they’re not, they’re frequently complementary. In the following, I’ll present why I think the two parties must merge and what
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