Justin needs to use his boxing skills outside of the ring
I’ve often compared politics to chess, or at times a hockey game. Now the appropriate metaphor appears to be boxing, given Justin Trudeau’s ring defeat of a heavily favoured Conservative…
Canadian Politics
Justin Trudeau understands social media…
Nice touch, hopefully young Mr. Trudeau can get Canada’s youth excited about politics again. Its been a while.
Stephen Harper is Sooooo unpopular that…..
I’m not going to put any stock in a recent poll that suggests the Liberals led by Justin Trudeau would easily win a federal election if one were held right…
One Simple Truth that Reveals All Others
We need to accept one simple truth. To avoid runaway climate change we can burn just one-fifth of already discovered reserves of fossil fuels. One fifth, no more. Fossil fuels…
The right thing done.
I haven’t said much on Omar Khadr’s return; I’ve been reading with a mixture of amusement and disgust the right wing vitriol over this decision. The Conservatives apparently had good…
Victor Toews demonstrates how wedge politics biteth like a serpent
Mennonites in Paraguay. Below: Victor Toews and Omar Khadr as they appear nowadays. Way below: Ron Anders in one of his waking moments. You’d think Victor Toews would have felt…
stephen harper awarded first richard nixon award
Some of us found it more than a little strange to learn that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been named World Statesman of the Year by the Appeal of Conscience…
If it’s Alberta, it ain’t goin’ across the border: time to connect the dots on XL Foods
“If it ain’t Alberta, it ain’t beef!” Alberta Beef Producers’ advertising models may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: I ; Alberta Agriculture Minister Verlyn Olson and Premier Alison Redford.…
On Justin Trudeau
I thought this might deserve its own blogpost column. I was asked by a Liberal friend (who has been involved with organizing other Liberal leadership campaigns) what I thought of…
Polls on Liberal (would-be) contenders and NDP leads.
You might have seen a poll out in the past couple of days from Forum Research stating that if Justin Trudeau became Liberal Party leader, he’d receive 39% of the…
Pro Choice abortion advocates can breathe easy…for now
On Wednesday Canada’s Parliament voted down a motion put forward by Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth that called for the creation of a committee to study at what point human life…
the politics of sex-selective abortion: there shouldn’t be any
Hard on the heels of the defeat of Motion 312 – on the mind-bending spectacle of the Minister of the Status of Women voting with the anti-choice contingent, on the…
The Harper government’s growing say-do gap
We Canadians are a forgiving lot, we elect governments all the time that back track and flip flop on election promises…then we elect them again. Pierre Trudeau campaigned against wage…
Hands off my Uterus
Last night relief of the defeat of M-312 quickly gave way to anger. Given the rampant deregulation being implemented by this Government, it would seem that the only regulation they…
The aftermath of M312 – for Liberals that is – and the case for primaries.
Motion 312 – The motion by Conservative MP backbencher Stephen Woodsworth asking for the House to re-open the study of when life begins – was defeated this evening by a…
Thinly Thought
I wasn’t going to do this. I really wasn’t. But then something happened to a friend of mine and it got my knickers in a knot and I know I’m…