Tom Mulcair Prepares To Leave?
Listing the highlights of your political career is like picking the tunes for your Greatest Hits album, right? Its what you do when you are done. And, weirdly enough, Gary…
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Ezra Gets His Date
Ezra Levant Type: Hearing First Date of Hearing: Feb 29, 2016 Last Date of Hearing: Mar 02, 2016 Date/Status Details: Calgary Hearing Detail: CO20142249 / HE20150107 It is alleged that…
A Modest Proposal: A Trudeau Government Should Restore Section 13 Of The Canadian Human Rights Act
That’s the hate speech provision, which I’ve written about it at numerous occasions in the past. The CPC ditched it after a years long smear campaign engineered by white supremacists,…
Federal Election: Thanksgiving Dinner Edition
At the in-laws last evening, dinner never really deteriorated into a discussion of federal politics. However, it appears that the choices have been whittled down to CPC vs. LPC, with…
Why Is Kathleen Wynne Running So Hard For LPC?
Because the Ontario Pension Plan is dead otherwise. Harper has already said he won’t cooperate. That means Ontario can’t piggy-back everything onto the CPC, then pay the feds a cut…
Harper Hanging With Crazies (ie Andrew Lawton)
Prime Minister Harper went on Andrew Lawton’s show? To bash dark skinned foreigners and liberals? That’s a pretty low move, even for this campaign. Andrew’s history of Muzzie baiting can…
The Munk Debate: A Quickie Review
Jt looked fine. Got in a few zingers, gave quite a good answer when asked about the LPC position on our ISIS mission. In fact he seemed to echo my…
Trudeau Vs. Suzuki: A Brief Note
During the course of a campaign, its always good to prove your center right creds by kicking a few hippies https://t.co/Wdw5WNH7Ts — Bigcitylib (@Bigcitylib2) September 27, 2015
The Problem With Hosting Trolls
As you can see, The Sun chain of newspapers (now part of Post Media) have decided to kill off the comments section to most of their stories. But all is…
Cannibalized From Within: The Fate Of Postmedia?
From The Toronto Sun Family blog: If you want to glimpse the future, consider LaPresse, which will no longer be publishing weekdays. One paper a week on Saturdays – otherwise,…
The Leap Manifesto: Naomi Klein, Communism, and The Hollywood Hippys
CBC says: “This is a document that was written collectively,” Klein said, flanked by national indigenous Anglican bishop Mark MacDonald and environmentalist and broadcaster David Suzuki. Actor Tantoo Cardinal, author…
Life In Scarborough: A Lost Generation Of Scarborough Youth
Was on the bus today, and listening to a couple of young kids talk about rock music. One of them wore a Motley Crue t-shirt, out of teenage irony. Another…
In The Internet Age You Have To Watch Your Fringe Candidates
Nothing wrong with this piece. Candidate fuck-ups are stories finished in a day. But of course, as Tim Powers notes, you lose that day’s news-cycle. There’s a way to think…
The Story Of Gerry Bance
From Canadian Cincinnatus, some background:I attended the Conservative nomination meeting, which was held this spring, in order to support my favoured candidate, Paul Egli, a retired and distinguished businessman. In…
Another Day Spent Off-Message
Conservative candidate Jerry Bance was caught on CBC-TV’s Marketplace in 2012 urinating in a homeowner’s coffee mug and dumping the contents into the sink. I’m betting the guy gets sacked…
Life In Scarborough: Scarborough Monday Nights
Stuck waiting for my wife t’other night, I hung around the Markham/Eglinton bus stop. The parking lot of our local Metro turns into the neighborhood meeting spot after dark. Guys…
Quote Of The Day
Not about polls or the lousy economy, but newsworthy nevertheless: “…as Christian business owners, our personal beliefs will not allow our conscience the freedom to work with a labour union,…
On The Theory Of The "Sleeping Electorate"
From ONW’s Susanna Kelly: Most people take two, perhaps three weeks vacation a year.That means that for all the other summer weeks, they’re back at work, starting the day as…
Robert Jago Soldiers On
I think Robert and I were the first two bloggers in Canadian history to force a candidate to step down for things they’d said on the Internet. But in ’08…
Coming To An Attack Near You
To got with this. Not a good day for the CPC campaign.