Since I Can’t Comment on My Blog I Must Explain Jack Layton Post
After posting my piece yesterday: Jack Layton Needs to Spend the Summer Taking "Speech" Lessons I received a couple of comments in defense of the Layton strategy.I'm still unable to…
June 2011
My theme for this week
After reading many ill-informed posts and comments about the postal strike (and nary a whisper about the Air Canada strike), I’ve decided that this will be my theme for the…
Reach For the Top?
In Macleans recent survey of Canadian Prime Ministers, Stephen Harper occupies the middle ground. He is rated 11th out of 22. Wilfred Laurier comes in first; hapless Kim Campbell occupies…
24 hours in post-election & post-parliamentary session developments
A few items from the past 24 hours that have that air of careful timing to them for a government that would prefer such things to occur beyond the parliamentary…
Apocalypse Cow
Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were going all the way. Kurtz got off the boat. He split from the whole fuckin’ program. And me?…
Is It Really a Win?
Canada managed to keep asbestos off the hazardous list. We in Canada don't use asbestos, because it's not safe enough for us, but we are glad to continue to export…
Get me re-write!
The headline on the story is catchy: Inquiry needed on centre closure: advocate At the start of second paragraph you find out that the advocate the headline writer is referring…
Brazil judge OKs country’s first gay marriage
In a landmark decision, Sao Paulo state judge Fernando Henrique Pinto ruled Monday that two men were allowed to convert their civil union into a full marriage. In May 2011,…
A room with a view of the pork barrel
The provincial ambassador’s office in Ottawa costs the better part of a half million a year to run, hasn’t had an ambassador in it for the better part of the…
Twenty six cents.
Remember a few months ago when, to great public fanfare, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador announced in its budget that it would be giving consumers a break on their…
Sneaking it through regulations
Now that Parliament has risen for the summer, we can expect things to totally die down now, right? And the government will drift into a gentle slumber and won’t do…
Legislation for a dying culture
I'm a staunch supporter of Québec's Charter of the French Language (a.k.a. Bill 101). Its purpose is to give new stock Québécois the means to integrate with the provincial majority.…
Alberta Conservative MP takes surprising swipe at Canada Post back-to-work law
Your blogger with Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber, in agreement for once … sort of.With locked-out postal workers being forced back to their jobs last night by the Harper Conservatives,…
Here we go again
The Conservatives act like its their own personal money and they can spend it however they like.I'm not talking about what's in their pockets.I'm talking about what came from our…
B.C. Housing – The End of Shelterville
Here it is…Home Sweet Project. I’m now in a 1960′s BC Housing Project….note the original lino floor and cinder block walls. Ugly, but hey, I can’t hear my…
VSP’s Ten Rules for Liberal Debate
When I first joined the Liberals in ’08 I didn’t know what I was getting myself into–I didn’t know the culture, the debate customs, or many rules of order. I…
North American Security Perimeter Agreement
Many of us look forward to four years of fights with the Stephen Harper Government. They have in the first session so far signaled that they will do what it…
In which the “Chávez has cancer” rumor mill grinds to a halt, once and for all
You know something? When the president of Paraguay (above, at right) says something about Chavecito, I’m much more likely to believe him than the English-language whore media. Why? Well, for…
What The Asbestos Debate Is About
"This government will not put Canadian industry in a position where it is discriminated against in a market where sale is permitted." -Stephen HarperIn my previous post, I had established…