Although it generated some heated discussion during the election campaign, don’t expect the $15 billion armoured vehicle deal the Harper government signed with human-rights-hater Saudi Arabia to be rescinded now…
Redoubtable Rick is relentless in his excoriation of both The Globe and Mail and The National Post for their corporate-driven endorsements of the Harper regime during our recent election: Recommend…
“He” would be the outgoing but hardly lamented Minister of Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Alexander, who allowed his transfixation with power to corrupt and ruin him. The damage may indeed…
I remember when I first started teaching, everything seemed so clear, so obvious: students, for example, were no longer writing very well because they weren’t taught grammar; a rigourous and…
I was catching up on my reading today, enjoying a brief break from blogging, when I came upon this; it seemed too good not to share: H/t Globe and Mail…
Probably one of the most obviously distressing aspects of the last ten years has been the precipitous drop in political civility, earmarked by fractious and factious exchanges in the House…
The world of U.S. politics is proving to be consistent in its insanity. Watch the following video in which Republican hopeful Ben Carson says, at about the 3:20 mark, what…
In Power Play’s Don Martin’s considered opinion, they are decidedly dim: Recommend this Post
There is a series of excellent letters in today’s Star that I hope you will take time to read. I am reproducing the first two dealing with what the ejection…
While I am sure that the legalization of marijuana will not be a legislative priority of the incoming government, I have little doubt that Justin Trudeau will honour his pledge…
Following Montreal Simon’s lead in taking down his masthead urging all of us to resist the outgoing dictator, I have removed the ‘Official Member of Harper’s Enemies List’ from mine.…
The majority of Canadians are currently basking in the promise the new government holds, the promise of openness, transparency, accountability and progressivity, all notably absent from the enshrouded regime of…
This will be a brief post, as there are likely far more interesting things to read from the professional pundits, but I would like to offer a few reflections on…
It has been, in the estimation of most people, an almost unbearably long campaign; its eleven weeks’ duration likely tested the mettle of the most ardent of political junkies. Yet…
That’s how impassioned tech entrepreneur Frederick Ghahramani describes Bill C-51 in this interview with Power and Politics’ Rosemary Barton. As you will see, he is willing to put his money…
This kind of makes it easy to judge Harper, doesn’t it? Recommend this Post
Marg Delahunty reminds us of one of the many offences against Canada committed by the Harper regime: Recommend this Post
For the millions upon millions of Canadians who have grown progressively more heartsick over Stephen Harper’s systematic subversion of our country’s traditions and values these last nine-and-a-half years, relief seems…
Baljit Singh Gosal. the Con candidate seeking re-election in Bramalea—Gore—Malton, has apparently dispatched his ‘team’ to commit election crimes, as you will see in the following video. The perpetrators defend…
Given that the unofficial organ of the Conservative Party, The Globe and Mail, has endorsed Stephen Harper in the last three elections, I don’t think it is much of a…
