Rona Ambrose and the Con’s Ghastly Deficit Game
As you know Rona Ambrose is the interim leader of the Cons, and she claims that it's now a totally new/nouveau party.But sadly for Rona she inherited the remnants of…
2016
How to say little in 34 slides #nlpoli
Consultants have consistently reported that the Muskrat Falls project is well-managed and well-led.Despite that independent analysis, MFP has been dogged by significant cost over-runs, significant problems with performance on meeting…
Deplorable Wildrose attack on new government negotiator offers a glimpse of what party leaders really think
PHOTOS: Kevin Davediuk, whose appointment as a senior public sector negotiator by the Alberta Government was announced on March 9. (Screenshot of Global News broadcast.) Below: Recently retired Canadian ambassador…
Expect the unexpected in the Calgary-Greenway by-election
The second by-election since Alberta’s May 2015 election will be held on March 22, 2016 in the northeast Calgary constituency of Calgary-Greenway. With the re-election of Manmeet Bhullar, this constituency…
Aujourd’hui ! « Comité d’accueil » montréalais pour Marine Le Pen | Today! Marine Le Pen “Welcoming Committee”
« Comité d’accueil » montréalais pour Marine Le Pen LUNDI 21 MARS, 20 h Montréal Marriott Château Champlain Hôtel 1050 de la Gauchetière Ouest (près Peel et Place du Canada)…
fascist shift: donald trump in context
Many years back, I used to blog about a phenomenon called fascist shift. I borrowed the term from Naomi Wolf's essential The End of America, but the concept was something…
Marine Le Pen of the French Front National — Disrupted in Quebec City!
Comrades in Quebec City organized with just a few days’ notice to successfully disrupt a press conference held by Marine Le Pen — leader of the far right anti-immigrant French…
Mme. Arbour once again bemedalled
Last Thursday, Governor General David Johnston presented Louise Arbour with yet another award, the UNA-Canada Pearson Peace Medal, which honours outstanding Canadian achievements in the field of international service and…
Mme. Arbour once again bemedalled
Last Thursday, Governor General David Johnston presented Louise Arbour with yet another award, the UNA-Canada Pearson Peace Medal, which honours outstanding Canadian achievements in the field of international service and…
Mme. Arbour once again bemedalled
Last Thursday, Governor General David Johnston presented Louise Arbour with yet another award, the UNA-Canada Pearson Peace Medal, which honours outstanding Canadian achievements in the field of international service and…
Let’s Make Alberta Great Again: Elect Donald Trump!
Donald Trump’s scary lead in the Republican nominee race led Ms Soapbox to wonder whether The Donald’s promise to Make America Great Again! with a mishmash of protectionist, racist ideas…
American Politics – by Flavour
American politics comes in flavours - Republican, Left of Republican, and Progressive. Republican also comes in two styles - crazy (without sprinkles) and bat shit crazy (extra sprinkles). The BSC…
On unstable platforms
With Saskatchewan's main political parties having released their election platforms, now is the time when I'd planned to put together platform reviews to better examine voters' options.But a funny thing…
Canadians United 4 Canada Founder and Paul Fromm Meet
Hot on the heels of our last story detailing Canadians United 4 Canada and their ties to Canadian neo-Nazis, we see have a related update further cementing the group in…
Tying Our Hands on Climate Change
Can there be a more difficult, dangerous political problem to a petro-state than climate change? Is it even possible to say "no"? What kind of leader would it take to…
Indigenous Rights Under Attack: Canadian economic and political interests over human rights
Illustration by LargeMarge No one defending their land and territory in Honduras is safe. That was the message that rang loud and clear after Berta Cáceres was murdered in her…
Carbon prices: an opportunity for combining sane climate policy with social justice
Image by Jan Smith In order to have a 50% chance of not exceeding the newly agreed (COP21) goal of a global 1.5oC temperature increase, humanity can only emit a…
Chief of the Malahat Nation, Caroline Harry–“The Whole LNG thing… We Were Backed Into A Corner,”
Don Maroc Soon after being elected Chief of the Malahat Nation on November 2, 2015, Caroline Harry told the Salish Sea Sentinel, “The whole LNG thing… we were backed into…
Anti-GMO = Anti-Science
The politics of persuasion play a bigger role in the anti-GMO movement than science. Like so many anti-science movements before them – the anti-gluten fad, the anti-vaccination idiocies, creationism, the…