Gimme that old time politics.
The more we learn about Justin Trudeau’s new politics, the more we yearn for that old time politics. Before the 1990s, candidates were nominated by their local riding association and…
2015
It Will Be About Getting Out The Vote
http://bookworship.com/ Canada faces what the German philosopher Jurgen Habermas called a “legitimation crisis.” Duncan Campbell writes: Simply put, many Canadians no longer believe that power being exercised in their name…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Tessa Jowell writes that we need to treat inequality as a disease which can be cured through effective public policy, but the…
Methinks Ms. Hebert knows more than she’s sayin’
Just sayin’. You can (should) read the whole piece. But these bits I found interesting: If anything, Adams’s inclusion on the Trudeau team has more to do with a dogged…
Pink Washing: Does This Pink Shirt Really Say Enough?
By Emily Griffiths Pink Shirt Day is almost upon us. The annual campaign to raise money and “awareness” on the issue of “bullying” takes place on February 25. As this…
Lighter and Lighter #nlpoli
Three separate stories over the past three days highlight changes to the local media world. On Saturday, Telegram editor Russell Wangersky slammed the publicly funded CBC Radio for turning its…
The Harper Regime and the Terrorist Game
Even by the low standards of Peter Dumbo MacKay, I thought it was bizarre when he claimed that a plot to commit a mass slaughter in Halifax was not linked…
Tuesday morning candidate nomination update in Alberta
Five-term Progressive Conservative MLA Wayne Cao announced last week that he will not be seeking re-election as MLA for Calgary-Fort. Known around the Legislature for his good humour, love of…
Stephen Harper"s Outrageous Assault on Radio Canada
We know how much Stephen Harper hates the CBC. We know how he has slashed its budget, until it's swimming in its own blood. We know what he recently said…
On alternative explanations
In 2011, one of the turning points in Canada’s federal election campaign (at least in determining which party would form the Official Opposition) came when voters learned about Michael Ignatieff’s…
Creditors forcing rapprochement within Syriza?
I’m starting to cautiously think that the Varoufakis and Lapavitsas “approaches” to the crisis might end up not too far away from each other even though the strategic direction they…
Don’t Canadians Deserve Better Than This?
Dear Demagogue (a.k.a. Stephen Harper) is out and about sowing his usual hateful divisiveness: Prime Minister Stephen Harper says “a lot” of Radio-Canada employees “hate” conservative values. Harper says those…
Rafe Mair-How Quickly Politics of Fear Could Transform Canada
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger We are indeed at a crossroads in Canada as we face a clever and devious PM Steve Harper who has spooked both Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and…
Will Nova Scotia Implement a Carbon Tax?
There is some discussion in Nova Scotia about the possibility of the government introducing a carbon tax in the next budget. In this blog post I will introduce the context…
Executive sweet
Thousands of BC government employees lost jobs to privatization and service cuts. Even more lost income through reductions in employment and pension benefits and, with efforts to reduce public services…
3 worrisome facts about BC’s job market on the eve of Budget 2015
2015 marks the sixth year of BC’s recovery from the recession. But it’s been a slow and largely jobless recovery in BC. 1. BC needs 93,000 more jobs to return…
Thwarted Valentine Day Massacre In Halifax Not Politically or Culturally Motivated?
When we learned about the arrests in Halifax related to a planned killing spree to have taken place on February 14, we thought we would take a look to see…
National Post: Former CSIS officer calls Bill C-51 "a threat to the rights of Canadians"
“Unnecessary, a threat to the rights of Canadians” – now even former CSIS officers are speaking out about Harper’s reckless Bill C-51. Experts are calling it “breathtakingly irresponsible” and thousands…
The web is putting a giant JUMBOTRON in Washington D.C. as part of #InternetCountdown – Here’s how you can help.
The clock is ticking down fast to the U.S. FCC’s crucial decision about whether to allow Big Telecom to install slow lanes on our Internet. We have just over a…
Harper’s Ace in the Hole for Election Victory in 2015? – Thomas Mulcair
Coming from anyone but Murray Dobbin, this might have New Democrats up in arms, howling with indignation. The decidedly progressive journalist, contributor to The Tyee and Rabble, diagnoses just what…