What I’ll be watching for Election night (PPC – Rural ON/AB) #Elxn44
We’ve had a month of campaigning in the Federal Election 2021. I don’t need to recap everything that’s gone on, except to say it APPEARS (with large emphasis on that…
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#ELXN44: #Kenney Shows What an #OTooleForPM Vote Would Look Like
To know what a #OTooleforPM government would look like, look no further than Alberta. The post #ELXN44: #Kenney Shows What an #OTooleForPM Vote Would Look Like first appeared on Excited…
NDP platform the most progressive and fiscally responsible of top three parties
All three parties are promising similar deficits over the next five years, but only the NDP’s plan would reduce the amount of wealth controlled by the rich while adding $106…
An Imperfect Solution.
It might as well be admitted. I voted early. I voted liberal. There is really no choice in my Barrie riding. In a field of four candidates, there is no…
Election Follies and Funnies #26: Did Kenney and O’Toole make a deal?
Tonight’s question is whether O’Toole and Kenney had a deal that Kenney would delay imposing yesterday’s Covid health measures until after the Monday vote. In other words, did Conservative electioneering…
Jason Kenney proves that Alberta provincial leaders can still influence federal election campaigns!
Who says Albertans don’t have influence in Confederation? Jason Kenney proved once again Wednesday that an Alberta political leader, just by calling a news conference and speaking a few words,…
To readers of my column
Forgive me. That idiot message I sent in my most recent item was not anything I intended. I don’t know how that happened. But my computer is running wild lately.…
Well, That Was Certainly Discouraging
The CBC captured a photo of Elizabeth May campaigning, sitting in her walker waving at passing cars. Elizabeth May, whom Susan Riley extolled as the “hardest-working MP on Parliament Hill”…
Green party’s housing platform
With Canadians headed to the polls next week, I’ve written a 650-word overview of the Green Party’s housing platform. Here’s the link: https://nickfalvo.ca/ten-things-to-know-about-the-green-partys-housing-platform/
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jason Markusoff writes about the human cost of Jason Kenney’s false claim that the COVID-19 pandemic was over. Phil Tank points out…
My Sentiments Exactly
And in a related development, in Florida, apparently all things are possible. Recommend this Post
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 16, 2021
LegalTweetoftheDay: Fake COVID-19 vaccine exemptions could be a problem, Ontario officials say via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3ConMwp – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
Strategic Voting in a Toss-Up Riding
Just had a very nice chat with one of my local candidates for #Elxn44 in #KitchenerCentre. It was @morricemike of the @CanadianGreens. He does bookable short calls with voters to…
#Elxn44 Roundup
News and notes from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Alex Hemingway writes about the need to tax the rich far beyond even the “unlimited zeal” reflected in the NDP’s modest…
On politicization
There have been a couple of indications as to how Alberta’s refusal to take basic health precautions in the face of COVID’s fourth wave (and in all likelihood Saskatchewan’s as…
What’s that Distant Rumble? Oh, It’s the Start of America’s Climate Migration.
If you’re poor you have to take your chances of possibly dying in place. If you’re rich, you have options. Some wealthy Americans are already legging it, migrating away from…
another federal election, another opportunity squandered #elxn44 #ndp
I haven’t written anything about the upcoming Canadian federal election, because what is there to say? The results are depressingly predictable. We will either have a Liberal government or a…
A Bad Mood Election
There’s a bad mood in the air. Susan Delacourt writes: This election campaign, soon to be over, has essentially been a bad mood looking for a place to land. It…
Why Canada must confront the myths of its imperial past
The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (1886-1889) emerging out of the dense forest onto the plains of Africa. Led in part by Canadian William Grant Stairs, the expedition helped Belgian King…
A Fool’s Frustration.
Conservative leader Erin O’Toole does not seem happy in his job. In this last week of our federal election, he is lashing out at others rather than recognizing the weaknesses…