Progressives look for champion to stop Harper
It’s been an interesting few weeks with a perfect storm producing a surprise NDP victory in Alberta. The Alberta NDP win does prove the NDP can win votes from Canadians…
Matt Guerin
Wow! How stupid can Ontario PCs be?
As I listened to the Ontario PC official read out the individual riding results minutes ago, with Patrick Brown winning most ridings (and eventually winning the leadership), I was struck…
Historic NDP victory in Alberta gets tonnes of reaction!
Last night’s historic NDP majority in Alberta was something to behold. Goodbye, Alberta PCs and Jim Prentice! The NDP took 53 seats, the Wildrose 21, the PCs just 11, the…
Canada now has two elected, openly LGBT premiers
PEI Premier Wade MacLauchlan With tonight’s majority Liberal win in Prince Edward Island, Wade MacLauchlan becomes the second openly gay premier elected in Canada (after Kathleen Wynne in Ontario.) Most…
Monte McNaughton shows his true colours on eve of Ont PC vote
Failed Tory leadership candidate/Lambton-area PC MPP Monte McNaughton hit new lows over the weekend with emailed attacks on his colleague Christine Elliott, who might end up being his political boss…
‘A Sinner in Mecca’ impresses at Hot Docs Toronto festival
Thousands of Muslims circling the Kaaba in Mecca, as seen in ‘A Sinner in Mecca’ I attended the world premiere last night of director Parvez Sharma’s controversial new documentary ‘A…
Could Rachel Notley’s NDP be heading to shocking win in Alberta?
I watched last night’s superb debate between Alberta provincial leaders. Yes, Alberta politics has become spell-binding for political junkies this election. Yes, NDP Leader Rachel Notley was amazing and PC…
Edward Snowden, Bill C-51 and the scary growth of government surveillance
I recently watched the chilling, superb documentary Citizenfour by director Laura Poitras. The film, which won the Best Documentary Feature award at this year’s Academy Awards, chronicles in detail the…
Michael Coren is my new hero
I really like the new Michael Coren, who’s undergone a mellowing that looks very good on him. Watching him debate the horrible Charles McVety in this Power & Politics debate…
Sorry, religious conservatives, Canada is a secular country
I’m immensely pleased with this Supreme Court ruling yesterday. It has struck me as wrong for decades that we continue to recite Christian prayers at public council and legislative meetings…
I hope local, longtime Liberal Marco Mendicino wins Eglinton-Lawrence Liberal nomination over Eve Adams
Sorry, federal Liberals and Trudeau inner circle members, sorry Tom Allison and others, this idea to let Eve Adams run for the nomination in Eglinton-Lawrence was a huge mistake. She’s…
Conservatives in Ontario and Alberta go topsy turvy…
With yesterday’s dropout by Monte McNaughton, the Ontario PC leadership race is down to just two: mainstream Tory Christine Elliott, who has represented the provincial riding of Whitby-Ajax since 2006,…
Religion is a drug best served with moderation and skepticism…
On this Good Friday, when all North Americans (and many others in the West) get a statutory day off – a privilege not extended to any other faiths, yet some…
Patrick Brown urges ‘greater market access’ for Postmedia…er…
On all levels, this is wrong. The CEO of a major news media organization, like Paul Godfrey, who runs Postmedia Network Inc. which includes the National Post, should not be…
Trans Day of Visibility!
On this ‘Trans Day of Visibility,’ I give you Laverne Cox. And a link to this nice story about Yasir Naqvi and Cheri DiNovo working together to fight federal Tory…
Stephen Harper is a deeply immoral and dangerous man
After watching this sobering, fascinating interview with famed political philosopher Charles Taylor on yesterday’s Power & Politics, I’m more convinced than ever that my headline is true. Taylor was commenting…
Conservative yuck factor goes up…
PM Harper, another Tory and evolution-hater MP James Lunney. Yuck and yuck and yuck. It seems the thinly-veiled, socially conservative extremist face of the Conservative movement in this country is…
Tory Plett’s bullying of trans people continues in Ottawa
Wednesday was Pink Shirt Day in Canada, a day to stand up against bullying. But in Ottawa, where Tories act like bullies most of the time, attacking anyone who can’t…
Tory leadership candidate caught catering to homophobia during sex-ed curriculum debate
A few hundred social conservatives reportedly gathered outside the Ontario legislature Tuesday to protest the province’s revised sex-education curriculum, claiming ignorance is a virtue when it comes to their kids’…
‘Matt Shepard Is A Friend of Mine’ opens in Toronto
Director Michele Josue, father Dennis Shepard and mother Judy Shepardaddress crowd at gala event in Toronto last night. I attended the gala screening last night of the documentary feature ‘Matt…