Canada Moving Toward US Style Partisan Administered Elections
I am by no means well read on the nitty gritty of Canadian federal elections, but this strikes me as an incredibly bad idea: says Section 44 of the government’s…
March 2014
Rex Murphy: We All Know You Are A Tory Hack …
… now just shut up about it and let the grownups talk, please. Talk about pathetic. In a previous column, Murphy was emphatic about how he speaks to his own…
Trudeau chooses vanity over democracy
Justin Trudeau has abandoned his promise to upgrade our primitive voting system, First-Past-the-Post, with ranked ballot voting — which Liberal party members supported by 70% at their 2012 convention. Instead,…
March 2:: I was afraid this would happen – we now have only one more (stupid) step to go.
For all the self-righteous speeches we have heard, almost all have been lies. The US is NOT supporting a people struggling for freedom. It is supporting a group of rebels…
Canada Moving Toward US Style Partisan Administered Elections
I am by no means well read on the nitty gritty of Canadian federal elections, but this strikes me as an incredibly bad idea: says Section 44 of the government’s…
New Movie: Son of God
A new trend in Hollywood? Could be given the popularity of the movie Son of God, a bible-themed movie about the life of Jesus. Mega-churches are helping to spread the…
Thought Experiment: provincial vs federal votes
In 2011, we had a Federal and Provincial election, here in Ontario, within 6 months of one another. In the Provincial election, we had the following results:1,625,102 – OLP (vote…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your weekend. – Nick Kristof writes that the growing gap in income reflects a similarly growing gap in social perception – and that there’s plenty of…
The poverty of Ontario’s political parties.
What we have in Ontario today are three political parties that have moved to the right of the political spectrum. They will all tell you that there is no meaning…
The Little Station That Could
Living as I do close to both Toronto and Hamilton, it is my practice at 6:00 P.M. each evening to flip back and forth between Hamilton’s independent station, CHCH, and…
Under The Bus
Andrew Coyne writes that there is a distinct difference between conservatives and Conservatives. That difference was on display at this weekend’s Manning Conference: The Conservative party is supposed to be…
Sunday Stuff: A guest blog-poster from the Biennial early this week?
I took a bit of a break in blogging the past week – partially to recharge batteries from the Montreal Biennial.. partially because I’ve been doing some other political stuff…
Advice To Federal Tories: Run On Income Splitting
Tax breaks for couples wealthy enough to live their lives in the Biblical manner. Forget any silly economic “principle” used to justify the move; follow the money. The same people…
Five Years of Frustration
Five years ago this week I started Democracy Under Fire due to concern of the way in which the new Conservative Government was ignoring democratic and parliamentary conventions. This was…
The Con Clowns and the Crisis in Ukraine
If the crisis in Ukraine wasn't so ominous, the sight of the Harper Cons mobilizing for war would be absolutely hilarious.Stephen Harper sucking in his gut, puffing out his chest,…
Can the Redford Government Survive Until 2016?
It’s unfortunate it’s illegal to say the word “str*ke” in Alberta, or you could write a great caption for this image. To be on the safe side, we’ll just stick…
Structure of jury charge
R. v. Feng, 2014 BCCA 71: While the structure of a jury charge is a discretionary matter for the trial judge and therefore is entitled to deference, it must give…
U.S. hypocrisy on Russian involvement in Crimea
This week US president Obama raised concerns about Russian involvement in Crimea. He said he is “deeply disturbed” by the Russian move and that “Any violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and…