Canada: A Simple Election Law (“SEL”)
At the Montreal convention, the Liberal Party overwhelmingly agreed to Priority Resolution 31, Restoring Trust in Canada’s Democracy. An important part of that resolution is this: AND BE IT FURTHER…
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Are Two Ukraines the Answer?
Ukraine uprising 2014 Max Fisher, The Washington Post’s foreign affairs blogger, has some interesting maps and information – a must see for anyone trying to figure out what’s cooking in…
Liberal Party Convention: The Most Important Policy Resolution
In my view, the single most important policy resolution at this week’s convention in Montreal is the prioritized number 31, which should significantly reduce our democratic deficits. That resolutionreads: 31.…
Ontario Byelections: The change that really counts
It seems that the leaders of all three poltical parties in the province of Ontario sense that voters want change. Premier Wynne, leading a minority Liberal government, was rejected by…
Brian Rice: The right person for President of the Liberal Party of Canada
Brian Rice – Political reformer par excellence For many reasons, I believe that Liberals should elect Brian Rice as the next President of the Liberal Party. He is a mover…
The Senate: Will Mulcair’s rabbits and doves flee in all directions as Mulroney’s did?
Constitutional twins? Thomas Mulcair gives the impression that he relishes the views of some of him as a tough guy. In Question Period, faced with a cornered Prime Minister Harper…
First Nations and the Development of our Energy Resources: Some Principles
New Principles for Energy Industry This post touches on the duty to consult, the impact of recent court decisions on the cumulative effect of energy resource development on claims of…
Justin Trudeau’s Culture Code for Canadians: Keeping it, with Fun
Dr. Clotiere Rapaille Within 18 months of so Canadians will elect a new prime minister and a new government. Of the three contenders for the top job – Stephen Harper,…
Authors, Your 84% chance to ensure you write a Bestseller!
Hold your horses, and consider this, you aspiring best-selling author you: Three computer scientists at Stony Brook University in New York think they found some rules through a computer program…
The Battle for the Soul of Canada’s NDP
Tony Blair wrested control of the British Labour Party away from the hardliners who had successfully run that party into the ditch in election after election, by concentrating on a…
Canada, want a good Deputy Prime Minister? Look for the man with the hardball in his office
Two of these men could be PM in the next 18 months Thomas Mulcair says he and his NDP have learned from the disasterous provincial NDP election: “It’s not enough…
From My Quotes Cupboard: What comes first in the USA
The Texas delegation up front cheered. Put a big man in a big uniform, let him recite big figures, and they would take the word of no priest or pope.…
From My Quotes Cupboard – High stakes Russian politics
A game played for the highest stakes also entails high risks … In 1647, Alexis himself, at the age of eighteen, had chosen Euphemia Vsevolozhska to be his first wife.…
From My Quotes Cupboard – China’s social threat
The real social threat to China’s stability is demographic. As a result of the One-Child policy introduced in 1979, China by 2030 will have a significantly more elderly population than…
Deperately seeking Toronto’s Nenshi
Purple reign Is it time for Canada’s largest city to have its very own purple rain? The Editorial Board of the Globe & Mail seem to think so. They frame…
The Supreme Court’s Christmas Gift to Canadians: Planned Obsolescence
Our Supreme Court of Canada, the highest court in the land, in a daring move, extended the boundaries of what is permissible in lower courts when it comes to testing…
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Why Stephen Harper will call an early election in spring 2014
George S. Patton I expect the Throne Speech in late January 2014 to be the timing for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to dissolve Parliament and call for an election in…
From My Quotes Cupboard: Tony Blair on Labour’s problem
Labour just did not have a large enough constituency to govern: From early on, even before my election to Parliament in 1983, I had realised the Labour problem was self-made…
Senate expenses scandal: The spreading ripples
Mounties are acoming … Here are some recent developments: Duffy’s expenses actually amounted to more than $90,000, and the RCMP alleges that Wright broke the law by giving Duffy the…