Strategic voting in Saskatchewan (recap)
Strategic voting Saskatchewan To recap our earlier posts, and to add a few more ridings, strategic voters in Saskatchewan are best advised to vote NDP in Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River vote NDP…
October 2015
What Does He Say In Private?
https://www.reddit.com/ The differences between the Liberals and the Conservatives are getting starker. Susan Delacourt writes: If this election is distilling down to a potentially ugly culture war in the final…
When it comes to blowing leaves around uselessly and creating an insane amount of noise
New Yorker Cartoon By: Tom Toro, September 28, 2015
Political Shifts and the (apparent) Falling fortunes of the NDP . . . .
The apparent gradual decline in NDP fortunes over the course of this gruellingly long campaign has carried a morbid fascination for me. As polls stand today, the NDP are thoroughly…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood highlights how the Trans-Pacific Partnership will do little but strengthen the hand of the corporate sector against citizens. Duncan Cameron…
A Quick Thought About The TPP
I was not planning to write about the Trans Pacific Partnership deal gleefully announced by Mr. Harper yesterday, trade and economics not being my strong suits. However, looking at the…
Harper will "win" the election
Stories like this and an article on the Calgary Eyeopener this morning about a transgender woman with a confusing voter id card (the link isn’t available yet but the card…
Harper will "win" the election
Stories like this and an article on the Calgary Eyeopener this morning about a transgender woman with a confusing voter id card (the link isn't available yet but the card…
Harper will "win" the election
Stories like this and an article on the Calgary Eyeopener this morning about a transgender woman with a confusing voter id card (the link isn’t available yet but the card…
The Signal
One of the oddest – but most intriguing – scifi films I’ve seen recently was the 2014 movie, the Signal. It is a small-budget film that premiered at the Sundance…
How to Use Strategic Voting to Defeat the Bigot Cons
Stephen Harper and his Aussie attack monster Lynton Crosby must be delighted. Not only do they now have the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal to wave around as a shiny bauble to…
Robbing the poor to give to the rich
Illustration by Matt Mahurin, posted on reuters.com blog From the outset of his political career, Stephen Harper’s overriding mission has been to dismantle Canada’s nascent version of social democracy and…
The blatant bigotry of the Hair.
The Hair had the support of the Bloc’s Gilles Duceppe in promoting bigotry the other evening. In the last of the badly arranged debate sessions of the 2015 election, Canadians…
Unwelcome to Canada
Migrant farm workers march for their rights, Learnington, Ontario, October 2010 • Photo by Gerardo Correa. Jason Kenney is currently Stephen Harper’s defence minister, but he made his mark as…
Colonial past, colonial present
“The more Things change, the more they stay the same.” The aphorism may be overused, but it aptly captures the current state of relations between Stephen Harper and Indigenous peoples:…
KCCCC Day 65: vast swaths of italicized text, plus a slide you need to see
Lots to cover this morning. So let’s get to it! First off, I’ve got a column in the latest edition of Post City. Here it is, in bulleted and italicized…
Malice in Harperland
Stephen Harper; photo posted on brunchnews.com, March 23, 2015 It is difficult to take the measure of the destruction Stephen Harper and his fellow Conservatives have wrought during the last…
Strategic voting in Saskatoon-University: Vote NDP
The riding of Saskatoon-University is turning out to be another race where strategic voting could make a difference. Strategic voting in Saskatoon-University Like many ridings in Saskatchewan, the riding has…
Stop Harper
Photo by Peter Blanchard It’s hard to recall as divisive a figure in recent Canadian political history as Stephen Harper. Few prime ministers have provoked as much animus among Canadians.…