Gaffe Alert: "Businesses first. Families and pensioners second."
Oh really?"Let's be clear. We can only bring tax relief where we can afford it. It's for business first. For families and pensioners second." I'm pretty sure that this is…
Gaffe Alert: "Businesses first. Families and pensioners second."
Oh really? “Let’s be clear. We can only bring tax relief where we can afford it. It’s for business first. For families and pensioners second.” I’m pretty sure that this…
Cleaner Claims Under-the-Table Payments (Cartoon of the Day)
Inspired by these links: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110419/cleaner-payments-110419/ http://twitter.com/#!/harpersbrain/statuses/58586897429184512 http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=9c6b53f6-f0a...
Working cooperatively for better parks
Some pundits in the blogosphere have taken me to task in the past for working with the NPA on certain issues--Jericho wharf for instance--yet never for working with COPE or…
22 Reasons to Stop the Harper Conservatives
1) Although the Harper Conservatives campaigned on Transparency, the Speaker of the House of Commons had to rule three times that “the Harper government” appeared to breach parliamentary privilege. For…
Harper Knows Best
April Reign Ever wondered if the whole Father Knows Best sweater vest persona Harper puts on is just a show to appeal to his social conservative base? Well wonder no…
Stephen Harper – The Mortician
Dr. Death. Prime Mordial of Canada. It’s rumoured he drinks formeldehyde on ice. What else would a guy who has sounded the death nell for Canada sip back after a…
Lennon circa 1965 would have dropped him like a bad habit
Seriously, I hope John Lennon's ghost lays a first-class haunting on Stephen Harper. Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Mount Allison Residences: Hunton House (10 of 13)
Mount Allison Residences: Hunton House (10 of 13): Located on the "South Side" of campus, residents claim Hunton House, is the perfect size, creating a family atmosphere where you never…
Next deadlock: Alberta
I refuse to believe that the people of Alberta are as socially conservative and right wing as their political representation suggests. I do not believe that the people of Alberta…
TEN COMPELLING REASONS TO VOTE FOR STEPHEN HARPER
(Let’s raise the tone of the debate. This is about values, and principles, not which level of government has jurisdiction. Vote for what you believe in.) 1. If you believe…
Quebec voters to break separatist deadlock?
It seems that Quebec voters are warming up to the idea of voting NDP. It was only a matter of time before voters there would tire of separatist parties and…
Michael Ignatieff in Victoria: What will you do for the youth? (video)
Here is AMFresh video by my partner at AMFresh of one of the questions asked and answered at the Victoria Election Town Hall rally with Michael Ignatieff on Sunday evening…
Debating the debate: dissecting Tuesday’s Royal Rumble at the Legion…
(Updated – thanks to a reader, changed the headline from ‘Wednesday’ to ‘Tuesday’… the short week has me all screwed up!) A few quick points – and a poll! -…
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…
It won’t be the same without sculpture – Vancouver Biennale to uninstall and auction off public artwork
35 works of art will be disappearing from Vancouver this summer. If you’ve noticed a favourite sculpture wrapped in yellow tape, get ready to say your goodbyes.
Be careful what you ask for – part II
Subtitled why a Harper majority would be bad for the Conservative party. Now we know that a Harper majority would be a disaster for Canada, but what isn't as well…
Be careful what you ask for…
... you might get it. So the Grits have taken down the ad with the Harper "misquote". The problem for Harper and his Conservatives is that Harper has a big…
Canadian youth can own this election
For the last five years, the Harper conservative party has spent millions of dollars attacking the leaders of the opposition parties, with vicious, exaggerated, and fabricated, personal attack ads. Please…
Wonhyo’s Awakening (via Wake Up and Laugh!)
Wake up amongst the dead. Swallow. Lately I’ve been (slowly) revising a collection of stories told by Daehaeng Kun Sunim during her Dharma talks. Here’s the story of the awakening…