One Or Two Loose Screws
http://www.examiner.com/ Public Safety Minister Stephen Blaney announced that the Harper government will show “zero tolerance” for groups advocating a boycott of Israel as a protest against that government’s treatment of…
Owen Gray
Targets Of Our Fellow Citizens
http://www.sodahead.com/ Bill C-51 has been passed by the House and is on track for speedy passage in the Senate. As it has from the very beginning, the Harper government is…
Richler On Stephen Harper
https://www.linkedin.com/ The late Mordecai Richler saw through the phoneys who inhabited the Canadian landscape. He had no patience for narrow nationalism — whether English or French. He particularly loathed French…
A Sad State of Affairs
http://s378.photobucket.com/ Susan Delacourt writes that the Conservative proposal for leaders debates is a shining example of what she calls Harperology 101: He likes rules, as long as he’s making them,…
Making Sure the Majority Don’t Get There.
http://www.nationalpost.com/ Things could get ugly when the polls open on Election Day, 2015. Stephen Maher writes: When Elections Canada mails out Voter Information Cards this fall, a new sentence in…
His Legacy — A Pigsty
http://www.forbes.com/ During the 2006 leaders debate, Stephen Harper asked Paul Martin, “Will you tell us, Mr. Martin, how many criminal investigations are going on in your government?” The answer was…
The New Serfs
http://www.amendmentgazette.com/ The OECD has warned that increasingly concentrated wealth at the top of society spells disaster for the world’s economy. Frances Russell writes: When the Organization for Economic Cooperation and…
Taxes Or Integrity?
It’s beginning to look like taxes — whose tax cuts are best — will be the central theme of the next election. But, Lawrence Martin writes, if the central theme…
Reform? Forget It.
http://www.nationalpost.com/ Michael Chong’s Reform Act is about to die in the Senate. Andrew Coyne writes: The private member’s bill, introduced by Conservative MP Michael Chong, is popular with the public,…
From The Bottom Up
http://thehealthcareblog.com/ It’s no secret that Stephen Harper hates government. For almost a decade, he has worked maniacally to reduce the size and the scope of the federal government. At the…
Changing The Frame
George Lakoff, a Professor of Cognitive Science at UC Berkeley, argues that we all see the world through brain structures he calls frames: Those brain structures are called “frames.” If…
Becoming Their Own Targets.
http://what-buddha-said.net/ Chantal Hebert writes that it’s been a rough week for the Harperites. They’re beginning to look long in the tooth and extraordinarily incompetent. Consider Mr. Harper’s “surprise” trip to…
Can She Stay In The Driver’s Seat?
http://www.kimberry.com/ Jim Prentice, the turn around and he’s gone premier of Alberta, used to be a member of The Trilateral Commission. Michael Harris reminds his readers that the commission is:…
The Young Are Mobilizing
http://thetyee.ca/ The conventional wisdom holds that the young are disengaged from politics. But Samantha Power writes that Rachel Notley’s newly elected caucus is the youngest in Canada:
What’s The Difference?
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ Tom Walkom writes that, if a Martian landed in North America’s Attic, with the express purpose of studying Canada’s three major political parties, he might very well be befuddled.…
Tax Cuts Only Work When There Are Jobs
http://www.theoslotimes.com Everybody’s talking about tax cuts. Stephen Harper has be doing it for six months. Yesterday, Justin Trudeau talked about tax cuts. It’s true that Trudeau’s proposals would spread the…
He Doesn’t Do Well In A Court Of Law
http://www.pressprogress.ca/ The Harper government is rushing to prevent Omar Khadr’s release from jail. The National Post reports: Federal lawyers have signalled to Khadr’s defence team that they will seek a…
The Not So Comfortable Pews
http://mic.com In the latest edition of The New York Review of Books, Gary Wills writes that Pope Francis is making the billionaires — particularly Catholic billionaires — quake. On the…
Much That Smells Beneath
http://www.westernpest.com/ The Crown Prosecutor at the Duffy trial says that he wants to see the errant senator judged on the basis of “common sense.” It’s a strange argument, Michael Harris…
Keeping the TPP Under Wraps
https://campaigns.350.org/ If there is one thing that distinguishes the Harper government from its predecessors it’s an obsession with secrecy. And that obsession is glaringly apparent in Mr. Harper’s refusal to…