UK ELECTION: LORDS TO BE PUNTED?
Lords punter Lord Steel They will, if this Lord has his way: Steel does not rule out cooperation with a minority Labour government in a constitutional convention or commission to…
May 2015
Rachel, Beware of West Coast Wolves Wearing Sheep’s Clothing.
British Columbia’s political leadership, Liberal premier Christy Clark, and NDP opposition leader – some guy named Hogan, no, umm Horgan – have their sights on the new meat next door,…
Harper, You’ve Been Served…
“Woke up this mornin’ feelin’ fine…” Despite every contrary act of the Harperoids, have to say that today is a good day..yes, C-51 passed, and, notably, with the self-destructive Junior…
The Shadow of Steve Harper Hangs Over Doctored Duffy Audit Report
It sounds like damned near everyone in the Harper PMO was in on the plan to bail out cash-cow-senator Mike Duffy. And that plan included corrupting the Senate audit process…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Canadians for Tax Fairness crunches the numbers and finds that Canada is losing out on nearly $200 billion in assets being sheltered…
Montreal Renews Call for Hydrostatic Safety Test of Line 9
A Quebec citizen group is applauding a resolution by the Greater Montreal Area’s governing body asking the National Energy Board for a hydrostatic safety test of the Line 9 oil…
Reward or Punishment?
Which works best in compelling behaviour of your subordinates: the carrot or the stick? Science has come up with the answer in a new study about how to get results…
The Duffy Trial: The PMO Cover-Up Begins to Unravel
We've waited a long time to find out what role Stephen Harper's PMO played in the Mike Duffy scandal. And now we're finally starting to find out.They arranged for an…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, May 7, 2015
Your news links for today: Conservative anti-terror bill passes final vote with Liberal support – Globe and Mail Bill C-51 passes final vote. – reddit Liberal MP Adam Vaughan At…
Alistair McGregor–Building the Orange Wave in Cowichan-Langford
Alistair MacGregor By Alistair MacGregor Tuesday’s election of Rachel Notley and the Alberta NDP to a majority government was a seismic event on the Canadian political landscape, and the aftershocks…
New column day
Here, on how the rise of Rachel Notley’s NDP serves largely to bring Alberta’s political system into step with those of its regional neighbours. For further reading…– Murray Mandryk had…
Rafe: Notley should change electoral system following Alberta NDP win…no, seriously
This post by Rafe Mair was originally published in the Common Sense Canadian Rafe Mair Somehow, the day after it happened, the election of the NDP in Alberta doesn’t…
On first steps
Dru Oja Jay, David Bush and Doug Nesbitt, Graham Steele and Karl Nerenberg have already offered their suggestions on the first steps for Rachel Notley’s Alberta NDP government (and the…
The Young Are Mobilizing
http://thetyee.ca/ The conventional wisdom holds that the young are disengaged from politics. But Samantha Power writes that Rachel Notley’s newly elected caucus is the youngest in Canada:
Seeing Above The Clouds
One of the consequences of being a longtime follower of politics is the development of a cynical perspective on life, one that recognizes the avarice, self-interest and self-promotion that all…
So Trudeau is a Pseudo Fascist, Just Like Harper
So Trudeau is a Pseudo Fascist, Just Like Harper To my Liberal friends sorry, but voting and supporting Bill C51 in any way shape or form is a deal breaker…
Beer as Medicine
Beer is delicious and it can be healthy to drink on its own. Apparently, back in the day, beer was used to deliver medicine. It turns out that this isn’t…
Lessons learned in Alberta
Nobody trusted the pollsters. They were the only ones who saw what would happen to the Alberta Conservative dynasty in Tuesday’s election. Babel-on-the-Bay failed to judge the extent of the…
C-51: we criminalized the promotion of hatred
…and all three federal political parties supported that, and rightly so. Just as we criminalized the promotion of hatred, we should criminalize the promotion of hate’s bastard brother, terror. Anyone…