The NDP: The Road Travelled from 2006 to 2012
On election night in January 2006, Jack Layton declared that Canadians had “voted out of hope for change” and expressed the conviction that the NDP caucus, 29 MPs as compared…
2012
Harper, You Punk, Man Up!
Those goddamned self-righteous Tories like nothing better than to preach responsibility except when they get a chance to dodge it themselves. And, when a chance does arise, they’ll use their…
The Remaking of Canadian Conservatism: 1988 to 2012
Brian Mulroney’s success in leading the Progressive Conservative Party to a second majority victory in the general election of 1988 was the last hurrah of the old Conservative Party, the…
The Remaking of Canadian Conservatism: 1988 to 2012
Brian Mulroney’s success in leading the Progressive Conservative Party to a second majority victory in the general election of 1988 was the last hurrah of the old Conservative Party, the…
The Remaking of Canadian Conservatism: 1988 to 2012
Brian Mulroney’s success in leading the Progressive Conservative Party to a second majority victory in the general election of 1988 was the last hurrah of the old Conservative Party, the…
May 10: Sackville hopefuls seek a better community
I”m so glad to hear that news about the Sackville candidates. I had been worried they would say they were all trying to make Sackville a worse community. That’s the…
Us and Them: The Psychology Behind the Heartland Institute Billboards
Leo-blog–The-Heartland-I-007.jpg The Heartland Institute’s jaw-droppingly ill-advised, and now withdrawn billboard campaign—pictured here—has drawn a huge volume of denunciations in the last week. There’s not much more to say substantively about…
4621…Decima Speaks
And Ottawa listens. “The Canadian Press Harris Decima survey indicates that the NDP have 34 per cent of popular support, compared to 30 per cent for the Conservatives.”The Liberals are…
Dear Bionic Liberal: Why So Zen? You Were Much More Fun When You Were Mean!
Don’t worry kids. It’s all part of the plan. Stay tuned for the unveiling.
4620…Rush Limbaugh On Gay Marriage
Via George Takei on Facebook quoting Rush Limbaugh, the number one conservative radio host in the States, from Wednesday’s show: We’ve arrived at a point where the President of the…
The Twitter Perspective #nlpoli
Tories on Twitter act like twits. Then they complain in the House of Assembly that other people are misbehaving. Yes, they are hypocrites. To understand the ruckus in the House…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jim Stanford sets the record straight as to how Canada’s manufacturing sector has eroded over the past couple of decades: (T)echnology can…
The Liberals: From Natural Governing Party to an Uncertain Future, 1984 to 2012
Since 1984, when Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives won a large majority of federal ridings in Quebec, the federal Liberal Party has failed to win a majority of seats in Quebec…
Federal HD Poll: 34% NDP, 30% Con, 20% Lib
It’s an interesting little poll, for some reason currently lacking a proper link to its official PDF file, but Harris-Decima was nice enough to lay out the entire poll in…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, May 9, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, May 9, 2012: Ontario court denies bid to use new summary judgment rules to determine “catastrophic impairment”…
Sorry for all the incompetent government
A Tory MP backbencher is rebelling in a refreshingly candid fashion. Not here, of course. It’s across the pond where the backbenchers appear to be doing more than baaing like…
The NDP: The Road Travelled from 2006 to 2012
On election night in January 2006, Jack Layton declared that Canadians had “voted out of hope for change” and expressed the conviction that the NDP caucus, 29 MPs as compared…
The Remaking of Canadian Conservatism: 1988 to 2012
Brian Mulroney’s success in leading the Progressive Conservative Party to a second majority victory in the general election of 1988 was the last hurrah of the old Conservative Party, the…
New column day
Here, on how Brad Wall’s Saskatchewan Party wants to turn back the clock on workers’ rights which have rightly gone unquestioned for near a century. For further reading…– The actual…
Omnishambles: the Brits dump the F35s
It’s contagious The Brits have made just as big a dog’s dinner out of the F35 file as the Harperites have. Whereas Canadians are fond of the word “boondoggle” to…