My Interview with Alexandra Mendès Part 2
Here is the second part of my interview with Alexandra Mendès. Q: How would you try to engage High School students to join the Liberal Party? A: We have to…
2012
Sunday Insight From A Star Reader
I’m reproducing another insightful letter from a Star reader, this time from Edward Carson of Toronto, who writes about how ideology reigns supreme over reality in the Harper government: The…
Whither the ‘Liberals’ on Toronto Council?
Toronto Councillor Shelley Carroll Back in July, 2011, a remarkable thing happened. Councillor Shelley Carroll, a progressive and vocal critic of Mayor Rob Ford, sent a letter to her riding…
Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to end your weekend. – Chris Selley rightly points out that for all the damage the Cons can do in a term of majority government, we shouldn’t overstate…
You go, girls!
First the feared Egyptian military is forced to issue a rare apology for its misogynist brutality. Then young religious toughs in Benha, Egypt try to bully women in a beauty…
The Hypocrisy of the Petro-State
“It is a pitiless, one-sided, mechanical view of the world, which elevates the rights of property over everything else, meaning that those who possess the most property end up with…
How boring was last night’s GOP debate?
This boring.
Music for a Sunday: Till the fearless come…
Still relevant, and still cool. How about that?
#Occupy Electro-Motive?
How can Canadians respond to the insult that comes from Caterpillar? And when unions know this is coming, why are we chronically unprepared?
Selective Memory
In his song,The Boxer, Paul Simon sang, “A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest.” Frank Bruni points out, in this morning’s New York Times, that…
Fiscal Conservative, Huh?
I love this MacKay cartoon, created when Stephen Harper sold us out for a few crumbs in his “Buy American” scheme. With Obama once again promoting the insourcing of jobs…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
If an elephant has its foot on a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ~Archbishop Desmond Tutu
The Real Outsiders – Disengaged Citizens.
Havingfinally gotten around to reading Samara’s report TheReal Outsiders: Politically Disengaged Views on Politics andDemocracy,published late last year I will give a brief synopsis of theirfindings along with my reaction…
Farber On The Gatineau Mosque And Other Recent Hate Crimes
Bernie has a nice piece in the Citizen: Recently there has been a debate raging here in Canada regarding the necessity of antihate laws. There are those who believe that…
Hunting on New Year’s Eve
This lion (along with 4 others) were hunting 200 metres from our tent on New Year’s eve on the bank of the Nile at Murchison Falls, Uganda Related posts (randomly…
My Interview with Alexandra Mendès Part 1
I had a phone interview with one of the candidates running for President of the Liberal party of Canada. As we all know this is one of the most important…
Traffic to start the New Year by #nlpoli
More on the polling controversy Effective Speechmaking Whose camp is it anyway? Seven Habits of Spectacularly Ineffective Politicians SRBP at Seven A challenge for Premier Dunderdale. (so far, not a…
Zach Paikin – the Evil Conservative Conspiracist Of Evil
That’s right, folks – Zach Paikin, who is running to become the LPC’s national policy chair, is a closet conservative! At least, according to fellow Liblogger Happy Wanderer and Max…
Sixth Estate Flack Award Goes to Amateur Historian Stephen Harper
The first Flack Award of the New Year goes to Stephen Harper and the Prime Minister’s Office. There were no particular howlers among the usual dull propaganda sent out by…
Is political gun violence on Canada’s agenda too, thanks to Stephen Harper’s Conservatives?
Sarah Palin’s notorious “target” chart. Below: Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in 2008; Ms. Palin herself; mug shot of Jared Lee Loughner. Last year’s North American political news cycle began horribly…