More foreign policy antagonism
You might have caught this story last week: For a moment at least, it was a United Nations-basher’s dream come true. The UN had once again hugely discredited itself, this…
Scott Tribe
Ezra Levant campaign to run for Parliament? I hope so.
We have Conservatives apparently urging the shrill Ezra Levant to run for the Conservative nomination in Calgary Centre. This being Calgary, I doubt there would be any doubt of him…
A gruesome way to protest
This should seem rather obvious, but I’ll state it anyhow – these type of macabre acts aren’t the way to be protesting the current government’s policies – if indeed that…
Shifting left?
As they always say, the only poll that counts is election day, but polls are a useful barometer of how the public is feeling in a snapshot in time, and…
Demonizing the unemployed
In brief, with regards to the new EI “proposals” Diane Finley and the Conservatives have come forward with, no one should be particularly surprised at what they’re proposing. All the…
The influence or lack thereof of Canadian political blogs.
I’ve read an interesting column tonight by Simon Houpt of the Globe and Mail, who laments the Canadian political blogosphere and the apparent lack of influence it has on Canadian…
Thoughts on Mulcair and Dutch Disease, etc
So if you’ve been following politics (oh, I hope everyone had a good Victoria Day weekend, by the way), you know there’s been a bit of a brouhaha over NDP…
ACTIVIST JUDGES!!!!
Scream, rant, rave!!!!! ‘Judge Overturns Election Result In Etobicoke-Centre: Defeated Toronto Liberal Borys Wrzesnewskyjhas won his legal case to have election results in Etobicoke-Centre thrown out, opening the way for…
Flipping thru Friday.
– Regarding this story, Harper and the Conservatives would never be so blatantly obvious in firing the independent Parliamentary Budget Officer. They’ll simply not renew his mandate when it runs…
At least John Baird is being honest
Shorter John Baird: We didn’t like the advice we were getting about environmental policy or suggestions, so we killed the arm-length’s advisory board because of it. So, basically, if you’re…
Monday musings
More in brief stuff: You might remember I was wondering how the Globe and Mail was expecting to get any money and not lose too many viewers online by going…
Friday flipping
-Young Liberal Zach Paiken asserts that Canada is becoming more conservative – therefore, Liberals must follow that trend to get re-elected one day. I don’t see any polls or statistics…
If you care about the Canadian Environment…
.. and what Harper and the Conservative is doing to it, wanting to do to Canadian environmental laws, and how they are trying to silence environmental advocates dissent, check this…
Fine by me
From Carol Goar’s column in the Star yesterday: Stephen Harper’s government is starting to show its age..a telltale sloppiness is creeping in. This is the point at which the Prime…
The more (choice), the merrier
I sincerely hope this is true: At least a half dozen Liberal leadership candidates could be gearing up their campaigns as soon as this summer. Liberal party president Mike Crawley…
Parliamentary impotence is nothing new
Andrew Coyne has a column where he rages over Parliament’s redundancy or seeming lack of influence – specifically over Bill C-38, the Conservatives “omnibus bill”, which basically combines several different…
Harper and Cons reputation taking a bit of a beating – a year too late.
Two new polls out today – one from Forum Research in the Star shows the NDP ahead of the CPC by 3%.. the other by Nanos at the Globe shows…
Seems the Fraser Insitute has donations from foreign influences too, Mr Harper
Perhaps if the Conservative Senate is going to conduct an investigation into the amount of foreign influence pouring into Canadian environmental organizations, it can add the Fraser Institute to the…
Sanity prevails in both Ontario and Alberta.
Well, this is actually a half-satisfying morning for me – one I haven’t had in Canadian political affairs for quite awhile. First, the Ontario Liberals and NDP came to an…