The Supreme Narcissist
http://breakups.org/ Stephen Harper hates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He says that Bill C-51 is all about fighting terrorism. But Michael Harris writes: Here we have a piece
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Feeding His Base
Fear fueled Stephen Harper’s victory in 2011. Back then, he stoked fears about a coalition government. This time around, he hopes to surf back to power by fanning two categories…
A Very Dangerous Man
Stephen Harper has based his political career on the notion of austerity. Deep down, he believes it’s good for the soul. But, Thomas Walkom writes, he also stands fourscore for…
It Will Be About Getting Out The Vote
http://bookworship.com/ Canada faces what the German philosopher Jurgen Habermas called a “legitimation crisis.” Duncan Campbell writes: Simply put, many Canadians no longer believe that power being exercised in their name…
Catching Up With The Organ Grinder
http://batmananthology.wikia.com/ John Baird has quit. Eve and Dimitri have bolted. But, for Stephen Harper, this winter of discontent is going to turn into a very rough spring. Mike Duffy’s trial…
The Death Of Sun News
http://www.thestar.com/ Sun News is dead. A speciality channel which specialized in sound and fury, it passed quietly into the night. The whole project was ill conceived from the beginning. Christopher…
The Ascension Of Pierre Poilievre
http://quietmike.org/ Among all the sound and fury over Eve Adams this week, many Canadians probably missed the fact that Pierre Poilivere was promoted to Minister of Labour. Tim Harper writes…
The Dream Still Lives
For the moment, economics has intervened and put Stephen Harper’s dream of Canada The Petro State on ice. But his other dream — Canada The Police State — continues apace.…
Caught In His Own Web
http://pixgood.com/ The plan was to ensnare the opposition in an economic web from which they could not escape. Instead, Stephen Harper finds that his economic strategy has come
The Triumph Of Naked Ambition
http://davinci41.deviantart.com/ Eve Adams’ floor crossing was the latest example of what has become a plague. Politicians used to claim they believed in public service. Now all pretense has been swept…
The News Is Not Good
http://www.journaldemontreal.com/ Yesterday, I wrote that Stephen Harper had devalued the coin of the realm — trust. And I suggested that the distrust Canadians now felt for him might result in…
Devaluing The Coin Of The Realm
http://beforeitsnews.com/ The CBC has been battered by the antics of Jian Ghomeshi, Peter Mansbridge and Amanda Lang. South of the border, NBC is dealing with the fallout of Brian Williams’…
The Lessons Of 2006 and 2008
http://www.counterweights.ca/ It’s hard to predict the outcome of an election. But this time around, if the Harperites receive a plurality of votes, Nelson Wiseman writes that 2006 and 2008 should…
Not In His Vocabulary
http://criticallegalthinking.com/ The financial world is waiting for the other shoe to drop in Greece. It’s a sure bet that Greece’s creditors are biting their fingernails. But, Joseph Stiglitz writes, there
Let’s Not Forget
http://www.macleans.ca/ Diplomacy was is full bloom when John Baird announced his retirement this week. That was strange, Michael Harris writes, given Baird’s record as Minister of Foreign Affairs: Take a…
Stephen Houdini
http://www.biography.com/ Like Harry Houdini, Stephen Harper has built his career on illusion. His chief accomplishment has been to convince a significant number of Canadians that he is someone he is…
The Sins Of The Fathers
For Neo-Liberals, a deficit is more than a negative number. It is a moral failure — a sin. That conviction drives Stephen Harper’s economic policy. And that conviction, Scott Clark…
It’s Not The Deficit. There Are More Serious Miscalculations
https://www.pinterest.com/ Much has been written about the Harper government’s deficit projections. Jim Stanford writes that, on paper, the budget will be balanced. There are all kinds of accounting tricks that…
No Great Man
Stephen Harper is a champion of disaster democracy. Michael Harris writes: Disaster democracy needs just three things; an atrocious event, a political leader sufficiently cynical not to let any catastrophe…
Country Over Party
Gerry Caplan writes that the Liberals and the New Democrats are going to have to do what is unthinkable — work together. It’s possible that either party might win a…