In Canada It’s All Part of the Game
The Canadian federal general election has come and gone and from what I can gather most Canadians are pretty well satisfied with the results: a majority government, the centre left…
The Canadian federal general election has come and gone and from what I can gather most Canadians are pretty well satisfied with the results: a majority government, the centre left…
How is it that a supposedly developed country, a member of the G-8, endures a medieval electoral system?The Conservatives's quest for what Canadians erroneously refer to as a majority government…
Yes, I've seen the latest polls and have jumped on the bandwagon. I'm putting aside the pessimist belief that the vagaries of the voting system would undo the sudden rise…
The sudden rise of the NDP in the polls gives reason to hope that the political landscape is about to change fundamentally.Don't bet the farm on it.What the pundits don't…
Elsewhere in Canada, the political continuum is from right to left. Here in Quebec, the parties have been aligned on the basis of a federalist-nationalist allegiance for more than 30…
I woke up this morning to see confirmation in two polls that with regard to voting intentions in the upcoming federal elections Quebecers have gone viral in their support of…
Last year, I had the shock of my life when I visited the US. I had never seen so many super obese people in all my life. Statistics say that…
Thank God the Stanley Cup Playoffs start this evening. This has to be the dullest federal election since Sir John A. swore off the bottle. Same old. Same old.Yet, around…
I've enjoyed my iPad for about a year now. For someone who is an info-holic and works in communications, it's changed the way I access information and there's no going…
Catch 22 for the Green Party of Canada. Because the Greens haven't won a seat in Parliament, their leader can't participate in the televised leaders debate. Because their leader doesn't…
I think that most people would now recognize that the world has moved on and Canada is still stuck with it colonial system of governance. No modern democratic state has…
While campaigning against the alternative vote option on the ballot in the UK referendum on the voting system, British Prime Minister, David Cameron makes the following analogy that underscores the…
"Although we like to think of ourselves as living in a mature democracy, we live, instead, in something little better than a benign dictatorship, not under a strict one-party rule,…
One thing is for sure. Once the writ is dropped, partisan interests prevail and the leaders can't see the forest for the trees.For example, all this fear mongering about the…
The red door and the blue door. Forming a coalition with the socialists and the separatists. Give me a frickin break.Here we are about to embark on our fourth general…
So here we are. Yet again facing the possibility of a general election that won't resolve anything. A few seats will change hands, but for the most part the distribution…
Like the majority of Quebecois, I feel that we are being taken for a ride when it comes to the drilling for natural gas using the controversial hydofracking process.Essentially, a…
If there is a God, he must ask for our pardon.(Words scratched onto the walls of the barracks in the Mauthausen concentration camp)There are times when we learn things that…
Maybe it's just me. When the president of the association of the province's crown attorneys declares publicly that the Quebec government is acting in a manner that is unconstitutional, irresponsible,…
Money, money, money. Lots of it. Can't get enough. Makes the world go around. Keep your grubby hands off my pile.Familiar words? They should be. These are the sentiments at…