Stealing Democracy: Part IV – Marc Mayrand Responds
When it comes to reviewing Bill C-23, as much as I enjoy exploring the labyrinthine language of legalese, I am also interested in what the current head of Elections Canada…
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… It Gets Darker
A break from analyzing Bill C-23 today, but not a break from covering the darkness that is Harper’s shadow. Today’s instalment comes in the form of the obviously politically motivated…
Bill C-23: The Theft Of Democracy Part III
I continue my analysis of Bill C-23 in depth, largely out of the same horror and curiosity that goes with looking at a traffic accident. Except in this case, it…
Bill C-23: The Theft Of Canada’s Democracy Part II
I have not by any means finished my analysis of this bill and what it is setting up. However, a lot of other smart writers have been going over the…
Bill C-23 "The Fair Elections" Act – Part I
Bill C-23 is enormous – the pre-tabling draft posted on Maclean’s website is a whopping 247 pages in length. It’s going to take a while to sift through it all…
On Mass Surveillance
The revelation this week that CSEC has the capability to monitor the movements of Canadians simply by gathering some metadata from the traffic that goes by on public networks raises…
Harper Now Has His Own Secret Police
A feature of totalitarian states around the world is a “secret” police force that is engaged in spying on a nation’s citizens and keeping them in line with implicit threats…
Harper’s Short Sighted PMO
Canada is a diverse nation. Our population is made up of peoples from all around the world, and until recently, we were well on the road to respecting all of…
Interesting Move
Justin Trudeau has just kicked all of the Liberal Senators out of the Liberal Caucus. I heard this just as I was rolling out of bed this morning, and my…
A Personal Boycott Of The Sochi Games
With the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games about to start in a few weeks, I think it’s high time that I put forward my reasons for why I refuse to…
It’s About Recognizing The Realities
Over at Huffington Post, one of their columnists, JJ McCullough, is pontificating on Harper’s trip to Israel. In the comments, we find HP blogger Mitch Wolfe making the following daft…
Harper Doesn’t Get It
Several times on the news today, I’ve heard Harper protest to reporters that when he was in the West Bank that nobody asked him to single out the Palestinian Authority…
More LowLights From Harper’s Speech
As more of Harper’s speech to Israel’s Knesset comes to light, the degree of dysfunction and narrow-mindedness of it becomes all the more clear. The prime minister said he refused…
Rob Anders … Wants To Resurrect What?
Apparently, Rob Anders thinks that we need to resurrect the old “Rape” laws. He wants anyone convicted of rape to serve a mandatory minimum of eight years in prison for…
Harper’s New Anti-Semitism
Few things make me angrier than the propensity of the far right to twist things. In today’s speech to Israel’s Knesset, we find this lovely little gem: “A state, based…
Dear Leader Is In Israel
So, Harper is running around Israel blathering on about how Canada will blindly support Israel no matter what happens. Frankly, Harper is acting like a little boy in short pants…
Robocalls Revived
With Michael Sona’s trial expected later this year, the RoboCalls scandal has once again booted up, reminding Canadian voters of the corruption in the 2011 election. The most recent thing…
Cal Wenzel Hasn’t Got A Leg To Stand On
I didn’t think much of Wenzel’s allegations when he filed his lawsuit. After reading the statement of defence filed by Naheed Nenshi today, I don’t think Wenzel has much to…
About That Sound Economy, Stephen
In light of Kim Jong Harper’s launch of a propaganda channel, perhaps he’d like to explain how it is that Canada’s economy is “doing well” when it is shedding jobs…
Kim Sung Harper
Wow … just wow. I never would have believed it if I hadn’t seen it. I still can’t quite believe that it’s being done in Canada, to Canadians … at…