Danielle Smith wants your kids to smoke cigarettes
It’s sure starting to look like she does. Out of all the parties, only Wildrose’s Danielle Smith refused to support the majority of the measures that would keep cigarettes out…
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Westboro Baptist Church weighs in on Wildrose candidate Allan Hunsperger
Today Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith held a press conference where, much to everyone’s surprise, she didn’t repudiate her anti-gay candidate, Allan Hunsperger’s bigoted, hateful rant about gays and lesbians. Instead,…
Meet your Wildrose Candidate: John Carpay
John Carpay is Wildrose’s Calgary Lougheed candidate. Anti-choice, anti-gay marriage and advocate for privatized healthcare. Health Minister John Carpay? Within the first five minutes of meeting Carpay at a Fraser…
Ontario election watch
A new poll puts the Ontario Liberals ahead of both the Tories and the NDP, which means the opposition parties are playing a very dangerous game. Hudak’s strategy of refusing…
Rotten Apple
I am an Apple victim. Without a doubt. In my home, right now, are four iPhones, a MacBook, a MacAir, a Mac desk top, two iPads and a variety of…
Wildrose candidate says white people are better
Here. I wonder if his leader, Danielle Smith, will defend Ron Leech like she did Allan Hunsperger.
Meet your Wildrose Candidate: Ron Leech
With the Alberta vote just days away, more and more is being revealed about the Wildrose candidates and their spectacularly ignorant, bigoted views. Today we meet Calgary Greenway candidate, Ron…
Meet your Wildrose Candidate: Alan Hunsperger
Despite WRP leader Danielle Smith’s flip flopping on abortion: pro-choice? Pro-life? Will she defund abortion? No, wait, she expects you to defund abortion, Smith still wants you to believe that…
The company you keep
Those of you who’ve been following the progressiveblogger.ca battle are probably confused right now, not sure really what the issue is. You aren’t alone on that point. Some people have…
Wildrose leader Danielle Smith’s hidden agenda
Here is Alberta’s Wildrose leader Danielle Smith: “…abortions are a horrific practice… Any politician who challenges the status quo gets pilloried by the media, abortion-rights groups and opposing politicians…the taxpayer…
On the recent abortion dust up
Well said.
Why I will never vote #CPC reason #1,379
Here’s Tory MP John Williamson – one of the whitest guys ever – doing his best Martin Luther King impersonation. The day following the anniversary of MLK’s death, no less.…
Progressives and abortion
With interest this afternoon I watched an exchange between several progressive bloggers that devolved into a boycott of an aggregator site because a couple of bloggers took issue with two…
My son could be Trayvon Martin
Trayvon Martin’s brutal, and senseless, death shook me to my very core. I didn’t know him. But, oddly, I feel like Trayvon Martin lives with me. I say good night…
Let’s go
The Ontario Federation of Labour had a poll done which revealed that “Ontarians from every riding in the province are solidly opposed to the unfairness of (Premier Dalton) McGuinty’s budget…
This is what feminism is
Recently, I was seated next to an acquaintance at a fundraising dinner, and somehow the conversation turned to feminism. His point: Men, not women, are the gender discriminated against in…
About the ONDP budget phone line
You know, the one Andrea Horwath set up to hear from the people before her party decides whether or not to support the McGuinty budget. It’s now being reported that…
Ontario Election 2012
Seems unlikely, right? You’d think so yet just months after the last election Tim Hudak was on CBC radio this morning huffing and puffing about the McGuinty budget. I’d call…
Wait, it’s 2012, right?
A recent survey revealed that nearly one in ten men believe it’s okay to hit a woman. One in ten!. Not only that, but also 48 per cent of men…
Pink Slips
Not surprising.