A young Stephen Harper with the rock in the background. The hard place was yet to come. Below: Pierre Trudeau, Canada’s last truly liberal prime minister.This column appeared in Friday’s…
Surprised to see coal and racism have anything to do with each other? Welcome to Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario. Disagree with him and you’re a coal loving, puppy kicking, candy stealing…
As long as I have been involved in the Liberal Party, it has been my conviction that for all its strengths, its one fundamental weakness has been an unhealthy obsession…
The site where Adam Benhamama's body was found Tuesday, several kilometres downstream from where police believe he fell into the water in early April. (Elias Abboud/CBC) Two incidents in recent…
Now that Blogger is back to normal, on with the blogging! The Warman and the CHRC vs. Lemire case will be heard by the Federal Court this coming December. Our…
ProMediaLaggingTweetThis!VilleColin Hansen has called on his failing BC Liberal Party to re-name and re-brand itself. Best name so far on #samepartydiffname from Mike Lowe is: "Conservative Liberal Alliance Party"......aka....."The CLAP"Ha!_____Mine…
Read whatever you like into this choice.(via ~ Jian Gomeshi)
Read whatever you like into this choice.(via ~ Jian Gomeshi)
Read whatever you like into this choice. (via ~ Jian Gomeshi)
ByeByeGoneBadPointGreyVilleSo....There has been all sorts of chatter on the Lotuslandian interwebz about things like... - Extra ballot boxes that suddenly appeared out of nowhere... - Advance polls that may not…
I return again today to the topic of tolerating dissent. Here's what @rosiebarton tweeted today that set me off: I'm listening to the Liberal scrums. These people have a LONG…
A recently published report by the Conference Board of Canada, a not-for-profit economics and policy research organization, indicates that Canadians are spending more on their healthcare and getting less than…
Blogger.com was down from Thursday noon until today, so please forgive me for not blogging about this sooner. Simon has beaten me to it already. The B.C. Conservative Party hasn't…
We’ve been necessarily focused on how to reform, restructure and renew the Liberal Party of Canada, as we should be, but to be successful at refreshing liberalism in Canada and…
For those of my regular readers whom may have thought that in my last few blogposts that I have been venturing a little too deeply into the waters reserved specifically…
Because of the recent, er, unpleasantness, I've started a backup site over at Tumblr. (OK, OK, I wanted another excuse to geek out. Like I don't have enough already.) Anyway,…
Before Parliament even resumes Cabinet Ministers are issuing decrees to Parliamentary committees:"Industry Minister Tony Clement said Thursday he will ask oil industry refiners, distributors and retailers to appear before a…
Now what the hell was that? Is the Facebook / Google smackdown getting underway, and if so, why didn't anyone tell me? Geez. Some stuff may have to be rebuilt,…
George Chuvalo, the Ed Stelmach of boxing, still on his feet while being beaten by Muhammad Ali. Below, Mr. Stelmach, Rick Orman, photo snatched from the Edmonton Journal, which won’t…
Finally, a decent analysis of one of Canada's darkest days - last summer's G20 protests and police repression explored in Into the Fire.
