The Closing of the Canadian Mind
Here is a refreshingly accurate ‘Opinion Piece’ from the New York Times. By STEPHEN MARCHE AUG. 14, 2015 Stephen Harper, the prime minister of Canada, is creating a legacy of…
August 2015
Experts and Authority
In an article last year (and soon-to-be book) Tom Nichols complained about the new relativism brought about by Wikipedia and Google and bemoaning the declining authority of the expert. I…
Stuff Happens, week 31: Oil falls, gas goes up … again.
If you’re a regular reader of this blog (and if you are, ask yourself why), you’ve probably grown tired of my ranting about Big Oil’s rip off of the Canadian…
Fun With Stephen
As a Facebook wag described the above, Harper’s caucus room post-election. I have always respected Smokey’s advice. At this critical juncture, Canadians would be foolish to ignore him. Recommend this…
KCCCC Day 14: we get letters!
I’m on a beach in Maine. Lala is asleep, as are most of our four teenage boys. I am watching people do odd yoga things or walk their dogs. The…
Quality Public Child Care: An Economic No-Brainer
Child care will be a major issue in this federal election campaign. The NDP has pledged to create 370,000 new $15-per-day spaces through joint federal-provincial initiatives by 2017-18, at an…
Harper on his Disgraced associates. . . . Please add more.
Stephen Harper has a long history of associating himself with people who turn out to be criminals or movers and shakers in a culture of corruption. Here are a few…
When is selling a dozen beers news?
On a hot day in the summer, a good publicist can sell editors on some very thin stories. Take the other day when the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO)…
help my christian friend vote, or why the harper government must go
A friend of mine is undecided about which party to vote for in the upcoming federal election. She normally votes Conservative, but may not this time. She dislikes the Trudeau…
Harper History, Part 8 – Senate reform / suspensions, Election Act
2013 – 2014 Even with the ongoing Senate expense scandal, the Robocall investigation crawling along (much delayed by the presence of the Conservative lawyer at E.C. Interviews) another suspension of…
Canada’s Economic Federation
http://free-stock-illustration.com/ Scott Clark and Peter DeVries write that the economy is not in good shape. It hasn’t been healthy for the last seven years: The economy has been seriously underperforming…
Stephen Harper’s Disastrous Possibly Fatal Duffy Mistake
When Stephen Harper decided to launch the election campaign into the midsummer storm of the Duffy trial, he must have thought he could get away with it.His criminal mind must…
The Sonic privatization mystery: what were the Tories thinking?
PHOTOS: More medical lab techs examining specimens, still not illustrated exactly as they’re likely to appear nowadays. Below: Progressive Conservative health ministers Gary Mar, Iris Evans, Stephen Mandel and Fred…
Is There Any Democracy In Our Election?
Is There Any Democracy In Our Election?
Neil Young Snubs Donald Trump,
Neil Young snubs Donald Trump, gives “Rockin’ in the Free World” to Bernie Sanders
A New Poll Suggests the Cons Are In Third Place
It's never easy for me to leave Scotland, the idyllic little country where a progressive government has driven the Cons to extinction.And it wasn't easy for me to blog as…
Harper Lied In The House
Check out @LeslieCBC’s Tweet: What the PM said then, and how it stacks up against evidence submitted in court: @pnpcbc #Duffy fact check #cdnpoli http://t.co/okoZsW4OBB — Leslie Stojsic (@LeslieCBC) August…
I Don’t Think Harper Can Survive This. He’s Done.
The rapidly worsening Duffy scandal is Shifty Harper’s cup of hemlock. Duffy’s lawyer, Don Bayne, may be going to town on the Crown’s key witnesses, beginning with Nigel Wright, but…
Whereby Justin Pulls Old King Steve’s Beard
Ya gotta admit he’s got a point. We all remember Shifty Harper’s feigned indignation when he supposedly found out about the Wright/Duffy affair hatched in his very own Prime Minister’s…