… IF you make your decision to listen to the massive outpouring of views by NDP supporters and Liberal Party supporters, the bulk of whom favour electoral cooperation and post-election…
Michael Den Tandt of Postmedia News has been wrestling with the challenges posed by the unique NDP convention method. It is the first time in Canadian history that a leadership…
… of COURSE he won’t step down. Are we not used to how low these criminals can fall? No pride. No honour. For the CPC, pride and honour are signs…
3 Days Ago! And nobody has even noticed! Don’t know how many can get to Mark Bourrie’s Facebook page. But you should try and friend the guy. He’s a media…
The last couple of days at Toronto Council have been pretty, um, dramatic. Those of you following the #TOpoli action on the Tweetr know this already, of course. One wants…
The online activist group Leadnow.ca surveyed its members and found this result: This could be the start of something big. Last Thursday, we sent a message to the whole Leadnow…
With the NDP’s leadership convention set to start tomorrow (and assorted hospitality suites already starting up tonight), I won’t be able to finish off my initial plan to put together…
We’ve heard little about the results of the push by these two significant groups, but perhaps by Sunday morning we will all be nodding our heads and saying: Of course!…
Maybe Ontario students will take a hint and keep an eye on our own tuition fees, which are highest in Canada (Québec’s are the lowest, so I’m not that sympathetic,…
In 2006, Rafe Mair wrote News Media, Defanged for The Tyee. It included the headline: “Politicians, not too long ago, feared the press.” Of course misreants particularly feared Rafe Mair…
It’s rare to get a response from a politician when you send them an email. It’s even rarer to get anything more than a form letter. But I’ve never seen…
Alberta is ramping up for an election and while busty buses and money-for-nothing schemes are dominating the scandals, the new Education Act may be the thing that pisses enough people…
… or not, since everyone seems to have forgotten the Harris-Decima poll from August of last year. But yeah, as the Globe article says, it’s nothing to get excited about.…
I didn’t think much could come along at this point in the NDP’s leadership campaign to significantly change my voting considerations . But the CROP poll published in Le Soleil…
It’s amusing enough that such an organization exists (if indeed it actually does) and its goals so lofty but judging from the banner photo, you’d be forgiven for mistaking the…
You don’t have to like it but you’re going to have to live with it. Climate change is setting in – hard. It’s already here and we’re going to have…
It’s amusing that such an organization exists and its goals so lofty but judging from the banner photo, you’d be forgiven for mistaking the group for NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy…
Rob Ford lost a another key vote today in Toronto City Council. Weeks ago, the councillors called a meeting to bring back Transit City (essentially), voted on it, and Transit…
Say it ain’t so! A CPC Cabinet Minister caught doing something UNETHICAL!!!! Wow. That’s about as shocking as finding out Don Cherry isn’t a vegan! Sheesh, why does the MSM…
