In the longest campaign of all time, who wins and who loses?
So, you’ve all seen this. Who wins and who loses, in an eleven week campaign? CBC: They have started to edge away from yesterday’s bombshell – ie, “THE ELECTION WILL…
July 2015
Thursday Morning Candidate Nomination Updates from Alberta
With reports that the Conservatives may call the next federal election as soon as next week, resulting in an potential eleven week election campaign, parties are still nominating candidates in…
Conservative disdain for democracy evident in their history of electoral fraud
One of my favourite moments in the coverage of the Conservative Electoral fraud in the 2011 federal election was when a reporter asked Senator Doug Finley if the Conservatives had…
Election pool: How many election laws will the Conservatives break this time
With an election call imminent it is time to run our Election Pool: Take Our Poll
Enter an Endangered Animal and Learn of Their Plight
Artist Evelyn Roth is using classroom sized animals to spread the word about endangered animals. She has created bright and cheerful looking versions of animals that are endangered to provide…
New column day
Here, reminding us that it’s our communities who ultimately pay the price for the poorly-thought-out election announcements from senior levels of government that we’ve seen so frequently recently. For further…
We must fight and fight hard to defeat Harper
I want Canada back. I want us to make decisions and set policies based on what will build a greater society for all who live here, not just a few.…
Alberta Electricity Provider TransAlta Found Guilty of Market Manipulation, Boosting Case for Decentralizing Generation
Earlier this week, TransAlta — the massive, publicly traded electricity generation company based in Calgary — was found culpable by the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) of repeatedly manipulating prices in…
Alberta Power Provider TransAlta Found Guilty of Market Manipulation, Boosting Case for Decentralizing and Diversifying Energy Resources
Earlier this week, TransAlta — the massive, publicly traded electricity generation company based in Calgary — was found culpable by the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) of repeatedly manipulating prices in…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Alan Freeman discusses the need for an adult conversation about taxes to replace the Cons’ oft-repeated policy of ignorance: Focusing on low…
Trampled
Elizabeth May tells us that her idea of a grassroots movement is a finely manicured lawn carefully maintained to suit the aesthetic preferences of its owners: May said she didn’t…
Rhetoric vs Reality: The Harper Govt Economic Record
Speculation is intense that the unofficial election campaign we have already been experiencing for several months, is about to become official: Ottawa is awash in rumours the writ may be…
Honouring A Dead Woman’s Wishes
By the newspaper’s account, Catherine Finn was a lively, passionate and engaged woman. I think I would have liked her, as would many others. Catherine died on July 9 of…
A Really Nasty Piece Of Work
http://www.macleans.ca/ Glen McGregor reports that Stephen Harper will skip Flora MacDonald’s funeral: Prime Minister Stephen Harper will not attend the funeral of former external affairs minister Flora MacDonald, a pioneering…
Trump trumps rational (?) Republicans.
Politics in America is sometimes like a badly edited Hollywood movie. It is not always rational. The recent introduction of Donald Trump as a candidate for the Presidential nomination of…
Stephen Harper and the Final Battle for Canada
For ten long years he has schemed and plotted to destroy the Canada he hates so much, by perverting our traditions, and dismembering our democracy.And now he's got a new…
What do Stephen Harper and Walter Palmer have in Common?
Walter Palmer is now in hiding because of his egregious tactics in hunting big game. What does Stephen Harper have in common with him?
More ways to lose than win #nlpoli
“What this province needs is not just someone with the brains to figure out what’s wrong with our economy,” future Premier Kathy Dunderdale wrote in 2002. “What this province needs…
Stephen Harper and the Pathetic Con Sheeple
Well never let it be said that the Harper Cons are not a cult, or a herd of pathetic sheeple.A baaing bunch incapable of independent thought, who can only repeat…