No, Nenshi isn’t running for the Liberals
No, Liberals and progressives alike, Nenshi isn’t throwing his hat into the provincial or federal arenas as either an MP or a leadership candidate. He’s happiest where he is right…
Canadian Politics
Alberta oil-spills karma
The frequency of oil-spills in Alberta in the past month and a bit is some karma; bad karma for Alberta and the federal Conservative government in Ottawa, that is: The…
Ontario Budget passes despite heavy Tory opposition
As if having to contend with a minority government short of one seat from a majority wasn’t enough, we liberals also have to deal with the underhanded methods of the…
Provincial Ontario Liberals very disappointing on the environment.
This post might annoy a few people I know at Queen’s Park, but I’m a tad annoyed with the Mcguinty government, so it will even out. Mcguinty’s Liberals are pulling…
Spin
Not long ago, my provincial government decided to do away with a program that created hundreds, if not thousands of jobs in the province, and which brought with it millions…
Hypocrisy on Free Speech and “Protecting Freedom.”
On June 6th (the same night that the trans human rights Bill C-279 advanced to committee) Conservative MP for Westlock – St. Paul, Brian Storseth’s Private Member’s Bill C-304, An…
Don’t take it personally, Deputy Minister
I’m sure Minister Kenney thinks the same foul-mouth thoughts – even if he doesn’t accidentally proclaim it in email – about all his political opponents who oppose his and the…
Does the House of Commons have air conditioning?
If not, I suspect the tempers in Parliament – already frayed over the all-nighter the government forced on Bill C-38, and other recent events like Dean Del Maestro being in…
Assisted Suicide, Discrimination, and the Constitution
Suicide is a difficult case. I do not believe that people, under most circumstances, have a moral right to unilaterally kill themselves. An individual’s life is not the sole property…
Omnibus Bill C-38 gets rammed through..
..but not without a good fight. Bravo to all the opposition parties and Green Party leader Elizabeth May for making a good point about the ridiculousness of grouping everything from…
Tubwerx.com -fraud spa service
I was looking for someone to fix my leaky hot tub and found this company Tubwerx and regret it all together now. So this guy Jim Gramatikopoulos (also goes by…
Thanks Mr. Rae
Bob Rae probably surprised 99% of the political world by today declaring he was not going to run as permanent Liberal leader. As with others online, on blogs and on…
Protected: It’s Justin, Not Pierre’s Son: Trudeau The Next Liberal Leader?
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These Are Not Your Father’s Tories. Seriously.
“I worked for (Mulroney-era environment minister) Tom McMillan, who was a very red Tory. I wrote speeches for him. We never checked his speeches with the PMO. He’d get up…
This is nothing we progressives haven’t said before
Many of us have been snorting at the “Canada’s back” on the international world stage claim that Harper and the Conservatives have been going on about for several years now…
Canadian Democracy in Disarray
* There is mounting alarm and opposition across Canada, even among many conservatives, about the Harper government’s omnibus budget bill, Bill C-38. Yesterday Parlliamentary Speaker Andrew Scheer (a Conservative MP…
we must stand up for the most vulnerable among us: please contact the senate about bill c-31
This week, all political eyes in Canada will be focused on the C-38, the massive “budget” bill through which the Harper Government seeks to remake Canada. The Opposition in the…
Small chinks in the Conservative armor?
There have been signs lately that even some Conservatives are not pleased with what Harper and the government have done with either their omnibus bill or their blatant disregard for…
Leopard spots
Hot on the heels of the non-news that the Liberal Party’s national executive would rule soon that interim leader Bob Rae is “allowed” to run for the permanent leadership (he…
Brief thoughts on Bob Rae running or not running
There was a bit of a dustup online (amongst Liberals anyhow) over this story CBC broke yesterday: Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae will be permitted to run in his party’s…