Making the Introduction
At a recent event in Vancouver, it fell to the President of Vancouver Kingsway, Alex Burton, to introduce me before I spoke. I was somewhat surprised when instead of the…
bgrice
The CPC want us to quit the UN. Yes, really.
The other day an acquaintance of mine, someone I have worked with for a number of years but isn’t a close friend – but someone I respect – gave me…
That ain’t strategic voting, Mr. Topp. That’s called campaigning.
So I just read this article by Brian Topp in the Globe and Mail. And I have to say, it is obvious to me that either Topp is being willfully…
Campaigning on Social Media and “Openness”
Recently, during the Vancouver municipal election, some candidates were trying to make a big deal out of the fact that their comments are being removed from their opponents’ social media…
Mulcair ain’t much different from Harper
The NDP are proving that they are cut from the same cloth as the Conservatives this week… or at least that Mulcair is. Peter Julian’s actions in the house, while…
PMMLiberal.ca: Celebrating the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
I recenlty wrote a blog entry for the Liberal Party of Canada in Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission. On a blustery Saturday morning in 1982, the Right Hon. Pierre Elliot Trudeau sat…
The Fight to Protect Our Internet Privacy is Not Over!
I penned a blog entry for the Liberal Party of Canada in Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission about Bill C-30 and Bill C-11: When the Liberal Party of Canada in Pitt Meadows-Maple…
The NDP Only Sign up 45,000 New Members for their Leadership Race.
The Federal NDP signed up 45,000 new members to bring their national membership to 128,000 members. NDP Leadership Candidates (Clement Allard/Canadian Press) That sounds like a lot. But to put…
Why you should vote for Grant Gordon, and by extension the Liberal Party of Canada
Yesterday, the picture below started making its rounds on the internet, and as was intended (I’m sure), it generated quite a lot of debate and discussion. I posted it to…
I Endorse Kyle Harrietha for National Membership Secretary
I’ve known Kyle Harrietha since shortly after I joined the party, when he was President in Fort McMurray and I was the new President in Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission. As the…
Bridget Marcelle is a Disgruntled Employee, not a Hero.
With three weeks to go in her job as a Senate Page, Bridget Marcelle decided to quit that job with a splash. She decided that her political allegiance to a…
The Council of President Call
When I hung up the phone after the 135 minute Council of President’s call last night, I was wondering how I was going to write my blog entry in such…
On Communication and National Board of Directors
On Monday night the Canucks scored twice in the first period, apparently. I say apparently because I wasn’t watching the hockey game, I was on a conference call with twenty…
A Clarification: When I say Policy what I mean is…
It has been pointed out to me that the definition of “Policy” is fairly broad and not as specific as I might have thought. What I mean by saying that…
Want to Help Rebuild the #LPC? Stop Talking Policy.
Nothing clarifies the mind like getting your ass kicked. I am seeing more passion about the Liberal Party now than I have seen in years. Forums, websites, Facebook, email: All…
Well, That Sucked. Now What?
I’m not going to bother spending a lot of time examining what happened during this election, at least not publicly. Mr. Igantieff, a leader I respect and admire, did the…
The Loss of Formality and Ceremony
I like to drive. I have a little sports sedan, and I really like to put it through its paces on roads that have never met a straight line. It…
First Study of the Canadian Political Blogosphere
I just participated in the following study from the Université Laval. As part of their request for me to participate, they also asked that I post the following invitation on…
Party Subsidies
Stephen Harper is once again attacking his opponents’ wallets instead of their policies. Mr. Harper thinks that the twenty-seven million dollars of taxpayers’ money that is given annually to the…
Personal Privacy (Assange, Fox News and the PM’s marriage)
Privacy has been on my mind a lot lately. I think this is the natural side effect of the Wikileaks story. But the more I have been thinking about privacy,…