From Separatist to Socialist: Nycole Turmel & Quebec
Those who criticize Nycole Turmel for leaving the Bloc Quebecois for the NDP only publicize how well she represents a people who did the exact same thing.It was recently revealed…
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An Appointed Senate Would Have Saved The USA
We need to reach a compromise by Tuesday so that our country will have the ability to pay its bills on time... If we don’t, for the first time ever,…
In Defense of an Elected Senate
Canada needs an elected Senate. America has an elected Senate and look at how great they're doing, well not particularly at this moment, but look when their Senate isn't causing…
The Liberal Party Cannot Rebuild
The Liberal Party cannot rebuild because the building is still there.In much of the same way that people in Toronto can't rebuild the CN Tower because it still exists like…
CBC Funding Cuts & Moore Lies
A lie is a lie no matter who says it. Most partisans would do well to know that and do better by having a memory to retain it.Last February Heritage…
God in Canada and Socialism in the NDP
Do preambles affect the meaning of constitutions? If they do, it's not just the NDP that will have a decision to make, so will every Canadian.Where just a month ago…
Changing Public Opinion By Making It Right
Out from under the dark and vague misguided tendencies of tolerance and pluralism, popular opinion must be dragged, to be viewed in its proper place within human affairs.Too often has…
The Idealistic NDP Filibuster Loses To Reality
The NDP filibuster ended last night, not because Jack Layton achieved the impossible, but because he changed his mind.After 47 hours, as it became increasingly apparent that Canada Post and…
Liberals Need To Take A Risk
The Liberal Party doesn't need a revolution, it needs leaders to lead one.The Party is nothing but people, and it's people are leaderless, not because there is only an interim…
The Liberal Think Tank
Liberals don't need a think tank, they need to think.In various Liberal discussions there has been an idea circulating, a proposition that the Liberal Party should create a think tank…
NDP To Remove Socialism From Constitution Tweets
I did an abnormal amount of tweets about the New Democratic Party possibly removing socialist references from their constitution, and much like a lazy online news source I thought I'd…
Learn From History. Renewal First, Leadership Second
In 2006 leadership was a year long & renewal had almost two years to take place. It didn’t.In 2008 leadership was a few months long & renewal had more than…
Go Canucks Go
The riots in Vancouver are not caused by animals, they're caused by people like me.I think I was too into the Canucks this season, I say that not because they…
The Liberal Party Is Not A Federalist Party
National unity is a result of principles, not a principle unto itself. Federalism is not an end, but a means, a means for every Canadian to have a government that…
It’s Not Brigette DePape, It’s Our MPs
Can you believe there was someone in Parliament who acted rude? That a person would interrupt everything and everyone to grandstand? Can you imagine that? How juvenile does a person…
A Place For Liberalism
"Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism…
Liberals & Separatism
It is not the time for the Liberal Party to unite with separatists; it is the time to recognize that we as a party, and as a country, already have.…
Who Should Be The Liberals’ Interim Leader
Where some people are at their unsurest, where the future is the most uncertain, it is at that time when who should lead the Liberal Party is the most clear.…
The Liberals’ Darkest Hour
Our electoral loss is not our darkest hour, what we face now, is.Many believe May 2nd was the worst day for the Liberal Party of Canada, they are wrong. What…
Harper Describes Himself As ‘Radical Right-wing Ideologue’
In 2001 in the race for leader of the Canadian Alliance Party, the Globe and Mail reported that in a meeting with Tory Caucus supporters, Stephen Harper described himself as…