It’s No Wonder
http://thelapine.ca/ I have suggested on several occasions that the ghost which lurks in Stephen Harper’s closet is Richard Nixon. But Marie Marguerite Sabongui, writing in The Guardian, suggests that the…
Owen Gray
He Miscalculated
http://cobb.typepad.com/ There’s one week to go. Stephen Harper has tried to make this election about the economy and terrorism. But — Tim Harper writes — in this election, the ballot…
A Change For The Worse
The polls tell us that 70% of us want change — change as a counter weight to the change Stephen Harper has delivered in the past ten years. If you…
Bravely Looking Into The Future
Making political predictions is always a risky business — particularly in this election, when the pools are all over the place. At the end of the last election, Peter C.…
His Best Laid Plans
https://twitter.com/ The polls are all over the place. But, if you go to political events — even Stephen Harper’s invitation only events — you hear interesting things. Michael
Politics At Its Most Cynical
http://www.blazingcatfur.ca/ Did Stephen Harper make his comments about banning niqabs from the public service because he was drawn off script? David Krayden writes: First off, there is no room for…
What Does He Say In Private?
https://www.reddit.com/ The differences between the Liberals and the Conservatives are getting starker. Susan Delacourt writes: If this election is distilling down to a potentially ugly culture war in the final…
Conscientious Stupidity
https://www.pinterest.com/ Joe Oliver announced at the end of last week that the Canadian economy had grown by 0.3% in July. And he said he doubted we were ever in recession.…
It’s About Labour, Not Captial
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ We’ve been told that this election is about growing the economy. But all of the parties are still focused on capital, not labour. Murray Dobbins writes: Just three weeks…
The Ugly Canadian
http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.ca/ Give Tom Mulcair credit. He stuck to his guns last night on the question of niqabs. A native son, he is well aware of the xenophobic streak that runs…
Economy Or Security: That Is The Question
http://www.ctvnews.ca/ Stephen Harper tried to boil this election down to two issues: economy and security. The economy plank hasn’t worked so well form him, given the problems in the oil…
Wombat Attack
http://www.dailymail.co.uk It’s clear that Lynton Crosby is now in charge of the Harper campaign. How else do you explain the prime minister’s railing about niqabs in the face of two…
Another Reason
http://enviroshare.info/ The Harper government hopes that concluding the TPP deal will be its October Surprise. Constitutional convention dictates that, in an election campaign, the sitting government becomes a caretaker government.…
Time Will Tell
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson Pierre Trudeau’s ghost haunted Roy Thomson Hall last night. Stephen Harper has been doing battle with that ghost since he entered public life. And, last night,…
He Thinks They’re One And The Same Thing
http://www.metal-archives.com/ At tonight’s Munk debate, Stephen Harper will claim that — just as he is a master of economic policy — he is also a foreign policy guru. But, Michael…
On The Way Out
https://www.pinterest.com/ It’s not easy to tell the truth — particularly when people don’t want to hear it. Linda McQuaig caused something of a political firestorm awhile back for suggesting that…
A Weapon Of Mass Destruction
http://www.conceptart.org/ The damage Stephen Harper has done within our borders is apparent everywhere we turn. But Canadians may not be aware of how much damage he has done to their…
Who Do You Trust?
There was a lot of sound and fury last night about niqabs. But they are red herrings. The central question in this election is, “Who do you trust?” Michael Harris…
Respect Isn’t In His Dictionary
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ Stephen Harper has always treated his political rivals with contempt. But these days, David Krayden writes, he is equally contemptuous of his base. Consider the case of the Canadian…