The only newspaper in Ontario that gave a real damn about the lynching of conservative leader Patrick Brown back in January was his hometown Barrie Advance. It is owned by the Toronto Star and while it is just a poor quality shopper in which to wrap grocery flyers, the publication
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Babel-on-the-Bay: Don’t blame me, I voted liberal!
From the catbird seat yesterday: I felt as though I was on the lip of an active volcano watching the devastation of the countryside. It was both a sad and a challenging night. A new day dawns and Kathleen Wynne is gone; that is good. We thought Ontario voters were
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: NDP and PC’s Neck and Neck as Millennials Engage
The latest poll from Abacus shows that the PC’s and NDP are now neck in neck with Ontario voters. The PC’s lead seems to have evaporated, and the progressive vote is moving from the Liberals over to the NDP. The PC campaign has been plagued with controversy over this past
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Picking politicians.
We now have our main candidates here in Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte. No, nothing exciting. The local liberals had an acclamation. Only one candidate came forward. The conservatives appointed their candidate when Doug Ford got impatient. So much for democracy in the electoral district! Ford appointed a loser. He is a former Orillia
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: “The Long Goodbye.”
Not to give it the suspense of mystery writer Raymond Chandler’s character Philip Marlowe, but Patrick Brown has taken far too long to say goodbye. It has been two months since he called a hasty news conference at Queen’s Park. Within the day, he was gone from being party leader
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Please come back Patrick Brown.
We will have to take back some of those nasty names we have called Barrie’s Patrick Brown. Sure, he is a sleazebag but he is hardly as ignorant or as frightening as Doug Ford. If we could just have our choice of sleazebag, I guess we would prefer the one
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The redemption of Patrick Brown?
How do you like those phone calls you get from automated polling systems? The worst of them are the ones that want you to press one if you intend to vote conservative and two if liberal. I always have lots of fun with them by pressing numbers at random. But
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: In defence of populism.
From the first time I met John George Diefenbaker, I have admired populist politicians. For the benefit of our younger folk, John Diefenbaker was a Prairie populist politician who served as prime minister of Canada from 1957 to 1963. As a young liberal, I did not agree with much of
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The Ontario PCs in Wonderland.
Vic Fedeli is hardly the Alice in Wonderland who foolishly headed down the rabbit hole. Yet it was Interim conservative leader Fedeli who first let on that Patrick Brown might not have been telling the whole truth about party memberships. And with three of the four candidates still in the
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives – Let’s Get Ready To RUMBLE!!!
Okay Ontario Conservative party members and watchers, the moment you’ve been waiting for is almost here. Who will come out on top in this winner take all cage match and go on to face against Kathleen Wynne? The leader of the Liberal NWO. Ontario’s Queen of Hydro, The Sultan of
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: First: Forget the pollsters.
If there was one piece of information that helps us handle the current political situation in Ontario, it is the knowledge that the pollsters cannot cope with turmoil. Even if some of your best friends forever are pollsters, there are times when their forecasts must be ignored. It is in
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The Conservative Cauldron Continues.
‘Tis the time of the witches. Their cauldron continues to boil and bubble. They use paddles to stir their daily trouble. Their spirit has again cursed Barrie’s Patrick Brown. Brown is down, Down for the count? We frown, Did somebody do the mathematics? Did the ethics commissioner ask the wrong
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Andrea Horwath will be Ontario’s next premier – remember where you heard it first, Albertans
PHOTOS: Andrea Horwath, leader of the Ontario NDP. Below: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, sometime Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leader Patrick Brown, the late Jim Prentice when he was PC premier of Alberta, and former Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak. (All photos except those of Mr. Prentice and Ms. Notley are
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Brown Out In Ontario PC Leadership Race And Recap Thus Far
Patrick Brown decided today that he was ending his candidacy for the Ontario PC Leadership race due to death threats and harassment his family received, and also due to his mother apparently being hospitalized because she can’t handle the stress of her son’s public life. This abrupt end to Brown
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Why does Vic “Feel Her Up Fedeli” still have a job? Bombshell news…
Welcome to the matrix my friends. I’ve never actually seen any of the Matrix movies from start to finish, but if I understand the premise correctly the idea is that what we, “the sheep” see as reality, that its all really just an illusion, designed to control and manipulate us.
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Conservatives need to rally around something simple – Tax cuts
Its Sunday, and I am in a really good mood. I’m not able to make it to Church every week due to my work schedule, but today was not one of those days. I’m able to attend about two out of every three Sundays. Today the hymns were upbeat, the
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: In search of a Red Tory in Ontario.
There are two former Conservative Members of Parliament whom I could vouch for as Red Tories. They are both very fine and principled gentlemen. They are Patrick Boyer and David Crombie. If you told me that you believed Patrick Brown MPP was a Red Tory, I might wet my pants
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Fair minded Ontario PC members should vote for Patrick Brown…
In legal circles you’ll sometimes come across the expression ‘fruit from the poison tree’. In the Patrick Brown case the poison came from a story that came out January 24th from Bell Media news outlet CTV. I’m not going to rehash it in detail, the story was such a piece
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Don’t count the Liberals out in Ontario.
It has been a bit disquieting lately to see the progressive bloggers’ web site infiltrated by conservatives. In checking to see what people are saying these days, I came across a conservative who was telling readers why he was voting for Patrick Brown in the Ontario PC leadership fiasco. Rather
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Caroline Mulroney – Burning down the PC house?
Caroline Mulroney is running for the leadership of Onatrio’s Progressive Conservative Party, following in her father’s political footsteps. Conservatives interested in the long term viability of the Ontario PC Party may want to consider the history, the similarities are striking. For younger readers Brian Mulroney was the last Progressive Conservative
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