Why Ignatieff will have his ass handed to him on Monday
Yes, we all know that the only poll that counts is the one on election day. However, after #elxn41 wraps it up, _if_ the results are merely in the same…
Voting Your Heart May Hand Harper his Majority
Unlike the Toronto Star,* the Catch 22 Campaign still thinks it necessary to vote Liberal in those ridings where a Liberal is the obvious choice to defeat a Harper Conservative.…
Review: <I>Imperialist Canada</I>
Few features of the political culture in this country are more likely to set my teeth on edge than the devotion not only of the right and centre but of…
The Krellant Election Special—Youth Voting
Frank Feltanchor probes youth voter intentions in the latest video from the Krellant. In it, he gets to the heart of the resentment fueling political apathy among Canada’s youth.
Gilles Duceppe has class if you ask me. . . .
Once again, I am impressed by the straightforward attitude of Gilles Duceppe. Even though he has the most to lose from the new popularity of the NDP, when Duceppe was…
Does our Prime Minister believe in the Law???
I have now watched the exchange between Harper and CBC reporter Terry Milewski a few times. Despite what Harper suggests, Milewski is not asking the Prime Minister to answer a…
Egypt’s Shifting Geopolitical Policies: A Consequence of Democracy
The recent democratization of Egypt has resulted in a series of distinct policy changes with regards to Israel, Palestine and Iran. These changes ultimately represent a shift in Egyptian policy…
A Vote for Layton, A Vote for Canada
I remember standing in the front row of the Coalition demonstration in December of 2008. Jack Layton came over and shook my hand, and I said to him, "I hope…
Why I oppose strategic voting
Canadian politics are plagued by an archaic electoral system where whoever gets one more vote than second place gets sole command over their constituency. This practice is known formally as…
Answer the Question Mr. Harper. . . .
As I, and other progressive bloggers, have been saying for years now, Harper has no respect for the Law or the constitution. Not that long ago, when the idea of…
History reloaded and remixed – A review of The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Remixing the revolution: new doc resurrects archival footage of the Black Power movement.
Vancouver Quadra All Candidates Debate
This past Wednesday I attended my local riding’s all-candidate’s debate at UBC, hosted by the Professor Emeritus Association. All of our candidates were in attendance, including incumbent Liberal Joyce Murray,…
My Seat Projections
Okay, just for fun I’m going to do this. I don’t have some crazy scientific method of figuring it out, I just go with my gut feeling – which has…
And I Thought I Had Written My Last Blog Entry Before The Election ….
It seems I was wrong. Once more, the disdain Harper has consistently shown for Canadian democratic traditions and norms is made manifest. Click here to read the story and watch…
Happy Dead Hitler Day!
Ding! Dong! The Führer's dead! Time to bust out the bubbly and celebrate.
Stay away from the brown acid
Wow ever since the wave l'orange hit the belle province (my high school French always fails me) it has been looney tunes around these parts. We've seen posts where some…
The Shock Doctrine, Toronto Style
I doubt Rob Ford reads Naomi Klein. Between studying committee reports and football playbooks, the new Mayor likely doesn’t have the time or the inclination to keep up with Canada’s…
Time to decide on the kind of politics we want….
This should have been an election about ideas, an election on Harper's record over the past five years, an election about competing visions of the kind of Canada we want…
Harper smears Liberals for years, then asks us to save him?
I don't think this latest argument from Prime Minister Stephen Harper is going to resonate with the intended audience. As all Liberals know, Harper has led a vicious smear campaign…
Measuring democracy
It wouldn't surprise anyone if they were told that the rich have more influence on government than the rest of us. Some scholars in the U.S. have gone further than…