as parliament returns, let cats be cats and mice be mice
A new Parliament opens tomorrow, and with it, we step into a great unknown. Will Stephen Harper's Conservative majority plunge us into chaos? Will the government impose a neoliberal austerity…
Canadian Politics
Killing the Senate requires the Constitution to be opened as well
My Premier, Dalton Mcguinty, has been long on the record that he is for killing the Senate, rather then reforming it, and he reinforced that with another statement to that…
Hudak’s Harris-like approach
In case you missed it, the Ontario Progressive Conservative party had a convention this weekend. There was a lot of, shall we say, extraneous stuff that was going on that…
The left needs to reconsider public funding of parties
With Harper's recent majority it was inevitable that his party would start pushing through policies that were not politically possible when they only had a minority. The first major example…
Let’s NOT Be Civil
There seems to be a very strong current within Canadian politics to "restore civility" within the House of Commons. This message was emphasized by Elizabeth May and the Green Party…
gq feature on stop-lossed iraq war resister phil mcdowell, and canadian press reaction
For several months, Wil Hylton, an excellent writer from GQ magazine, has been interviewing Phil McDowell, an Iraq War resister living in Canada, along with many other war resisters and…
Poll: majority of Canadians support constitutional talks to reform Senate
It seems a new poll is out that says Canadians are more then willing right now to re-open the Constitution to do such things as Senate reform: After almost two…
Liberal leadership stuff
Briefly this AM, a few thoughts on the state of the Liberal Party: 1) I think the choice of Bob Rae as interim leader is a good choice – the…
Rae Days
Is there anyone in Canada who doesn't believe that Bob Rae will ultimately wind up as the "permanent" leader of the Liberal Party, once this interim, kabuki thing is over?…
Ontario Politics: NDP getting a mini post-Layton bump
The Ontario election is still a few months away, so it’s a bit early to be predicting election outcomes, but it appears this Nanos poll shows that Andrea Horwath is…
A weak argument
On this holiday Monday for most people, I was going to take a crack at Jason Kenney’s ridiculous assertion about how Senate reform could be achieved by the provinces magically…
The Liberal Party and Service
On Tuesday, May 17th I attended the “Liberal Renewal Dinner” in Toronto hosted by the Edward Blake Society. You could feel the energy and excitement in the room. People were…
Same old Senate – same old Harper
I’m presuming that Harper will use the “stability” argument as one of his reasons for re-appointing 2 Conservative Senators who had resigned and lost in the general election and appointing…
Harper’s anti-democratic senate appointments.
Harper has appointed three senate seats from among his party. Here is the kicker: these people just lost their election campaigns to be MP's. Opposed to supporting democratic influences it…
Guest blogpost: The Liberal ‘Special Convention’. It’s not Extraordinary. It’s Unconstitutional.
I saw the following note on Facebook from John Lennard – who is a fellow Liberal, a one-time fellow Liberal blogger, and someone who literally came within a coin-flip last…
TorStar Op-ed: Liberals have to create a next political centre
This past Saturday the Toronto Star published the following piece by Taylor Owen and myself on its op-ed page. Thought I'd put it here for those who might have missed…
Molly’sBlog 2011-05-16 01:29:00
CANADIAN POLITICS:SOME LATE LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS ON THE RECENT CANADIAN ELECTION:It's been decades since I voted in any governmental elections (the associations that I belong to don't count). Still, like…
After a jump to the left, the Liberal Party needs to take a step to the right.
Though I disagree with the notion that under Stephane Dion & Michael Ignatieff, the Liberal Party has moved ideologically to the left, I do believe that both leaders seemed to…
Stephen Harper will ^NOT be balancing the budget.
If you were wondering how the Conservatives were planning on filling that $11 billion hole in their platform? Apparently, they are planning on using Stephen Harper and Jim Flaherty’s massive…
Liberals still haven’t figured out what went wrong…So I’ll tell them
Okay Liberal Party of Canada, you obviously haven't figured out where you went off course, why Canadians snubbed you at the ballot box. Every newspaper I pick up is filled…