Harper’s Hapless Harbingers…There’s Your Trouble…
Stephen Harper says ‘subordinates’ not responsible for Nigel Wright and Mike Duffy’s actions Conservative leader faces questions arising from senator’s fraud trial, for 3rd day in a row By Susana…
2015
How do you Cover a Cover-up?
Anyone who has watched events unfolding in Ottawa this weeks (and let’s face it, anyone who is interested in the future of the country has been watching with keen interest),…
Marx & Philosophy Review of Books reviews Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement (JMP)
Biel provides convincing arguments as to how the failure of Marxist movements to divest themselves of a Eurocentric worldview is intimately connected to opportunism and mechanical materialism. The opportunist position…
KCCCC Day 13: greetings from Albany!
Did you know? You can’t get anything gluten-free at Dunkin’ Donuts? Or that they call Lala “a model”? (She is more beautiful than that, if you ask me.) Anyway. Gotta…
Closing The Canadian Mind
http://www.stephenmarche.com/ Stephen Marche is a Canadian journalist who writes for American publications. In this morning’s New York Times, he provides Americans with some background information on Canada’s ongoing federal election…
In Spite Of Conservative and Liberal Rhetoric … The Sask NDP Governments of Romanow And Calvert BALANCED 14 Consecutive Provincial Budgets .. Thomson Would Make A Good Candidate For HoC
The Saskatchewan NDP were elected in 1991 after 9 disastrous years of PC rule under Grant Devine. Devine did not balance even one of his 9 budget and left the…
In Spite Of Conservative and Liberal Rhetoric … The Sask NDP Governments of Romanow And Calvert BALANCED 14 Consecutive Provincial Budgets .. Thomson Would Make A Good Candidate For HoC
The Saskatchewan NDP were elected in 1991 after 9 disastrous years of PC rule under Grant Devine. Devine did not balance even one of his 9 budget and left the…
In Spite Of Conservative and Liberal Rhetoric … The Sask NDP Governments of Romanow And Calvert BALANCED 14 Consevutive Provincial Budgets .. Thomson Would Make A Good Candidate For HoC
The Saskatchewan NDP were elected in 1991 after 9 disastrous years of PC rule under Grant Devine. Devine did not balance even one of his 9 budget and left the…
Saturday Photo: The Electric Cool Aid Acid Test–Or What the Rich Drive
Not that I’m going to make fun of the environmental concerns of these folks who are shown powering up their two electric cars, but I mean, don’t low gas-guzzlers and…
About Those Diversions, Mr. Harper
H/t Raeside Cartoons Meanwhile, always perspicacious Toronto Star readers will have none of it. Here is but a small sampling of their sentiments on Mr. Harper’s diversionary tactics: Re: Harper…
Ignorance and Belly Badges: Learning to Deal With the Doltish
Recently the media and political opponents made merry with a comment that Justin Trudeau made on the economy. "We’re proposing a strong and real plan one that invests in the…
Ignorance and Belly Badges: Learning to Deal With the Doltish
Recently the media and political opponents made merry with a comment that Justin Trudeau made on the economy. “We’re proposing a strong and real plan one that invests in the…
Ignorance and Belly Badges: Learning to Deal With the Doltish
Recently the media and political opponents made merry with a comment that Justin Trudeau made on the economy."We’re proposing a strong and real plan one that invests in the middle…
Ignorance and Belly Badges: Learning to Deal With the Doltish
Recently the media and political opponents made merry with a comment that Justin Trudeau made on the economy. “We’re proposing a strong and real plan one that invests in the…
In the heat of the news media.
If you have seen carrion birds gather around road kill, you might have a small taste of how people feel in a media scrum. The media in full flight can…
Memo To America
While this is officially a memo to America, I’d say the rest of us should pay attention, too. Especially here in Canada where our current federal government has officially tied…
Restraint not designed for les grand fromages
In Thursday’s CFAX session, I talked with Ian Jessop about British Columbia’s pension fund management agency. bcIMC has had attention here before and the graphs below represent information from the…
The First Debate
Looks ready to me.
The Day Duffy’s Lawyer Went After Stephen Harper
Ever since the trial of Mike Duffy began, his lawyer Donald Bayne has been circling over Stephen Harper, like a hawk over a rabbit.But today all that changed.When Bayne swooped…
Criticizing Israel’s Politics Isn’t Anti-Semitism
The political hijacking of nominated candidates right to speak out is of serious consequence to all Canadians. Conservative leader Stephen Harper and NDP leader Thomas Mulcair have both been severe…