Morbid symptoms: Alberta’s yellow vest movement
Photo by Brendan Collinge Parroting – or perhaps parodying – the Yellow Vest movement in France, hundreds of similarly dressed protesters began taking to Alberta’s streets in the weeks leading…
Canadian Politics
Wilson-Raybould, thrown under the bus for corporate interests
Photo by Matthew Usherwood Global players like SNC-Lavalin are masters of corruption. They have a lengthy history of illicit payments to public officials and not just in Libya. The North…
An election’s coming and the PM’s treading water – where’s a Russian to blame now that we need one?
It was a year ago Friday that the government of Canada declared Kirill Kalinin and three other Russian diplomats persona non grata and sent them packing for using, in the…
My latest in the Sun: the Trudeau cult
Dear Liberals: This is an open letter to all of you. I want to start it by telling you why I became a lawyer. It was a movie, called The…
The fake feminist, exposed
…and this is just the start, you phony SOB. Dozens of young women here for Daughters of the Vote turn their backs as Trudeau speaks -in solidarity with Ms Wilson-Raybould…
A generation of impulsive right-wing politicians ruins Preston Manning’s dream of ‘green capitalism’ – what’s next?
Let’s start with a pop quiz. Who said this? “One of the biggest issues will be the question of how much of current revenue from non-renewable resources should be saved…
The Liberal Party has bungled SNC-Lavalin terribly.
I can’t say I agree with much of my Liberal social media/blogger colleagues who are thinking this is a great thing that former Cabinet Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott…
#LavScam latest: tale of the tape – was PMO taping JWR?
From Butts’ notes. This does nothing but confirm every damn word JWR has said. (And – PS – how does Butts have verbatim quotes? Did they tape her?)
Liberal Party Mob Rule Trumps Democratic Processes
The Liberal MP’s are being whipped into line. The MP’s are turning their backs on those citizens and principles they were elected to represent. It is all about…
Fighting Ford: Ontario’s New Healthcare Act
Photo from Doug Ford’s Twitter page It is called the “The People’s Health Care Act.” But the new healthcare omnibus bill, being rushed at breakneck speed through Ontario’s Legislature by…
Former NDP leader Brian Mason said ready to bring Alberta-style politics to B.C.
Brian Mason, soon to be a resident of British Columbia, will seek a nomination as an NDP candidate in that province as soon as he can, AlbertaPolitics.ca is reporting. The…
Who Do You Believe -Jody Raybould Wilson Or These Two?
Who do you believe? Former AG Jody Wilson Raybould and former president of the Treasury Board Jane Philpott, or PM Justin Trudeau and Michael Wernick, his Clerk of the Treasury…
Project Wide Awake: The RCMP Monitor Our Social Media Use Without Oversight.
Our national paramilitary police force operates as they wish with impunity. Our governments do nothing and it is left to Civil Liberties groups to challenge the lack of accountability.RH …
The Alberta Advantage was Dependence
In the end, the “Alberta Advantage” was dependence. And in retrospect, undoing that dependence on the oil industry — a mixture of real and perceived — needed to be the…
Rex Murphy: The Liberals are now at the edge of a cliff
Unless Philpott is a fully-bleached liar, a dark trickster of utterly malignant intent, she has said things which simply cannot be passed by. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with reporters…
Is Justin Trudeau on the ropes as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister?
Here is the latest regarding former Treasury Board President Jane Philpott’s determination to shine light on the processes and background that ignited the SNC Lavalin scandal. Is Justin Trudeau on…
Why is it that we non-indigenous value monetary profit over the well being of our kids and their kids unto seven generations?
I recently went to an exhibit of paintings by Australian Aboriginal women at UBC’s Museum of Anthropology. All abstract, several of them luminous as the milky way seen in the…
Moving Beyond Ford: The Transportation We Want
Image from Spacing Toronto In Toronto and beyond, campaigns are underway to confront the Ford government’s initiative to take the Toronto subway system from the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) in…
What would Green Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May do in Rachel Notley’s shoes? Not the same thing as Alberta’s premier
What would have Elizabeth May have done in Rachel Notley’s shoes? The leader of the Green Party of Canada says she would have summoned up the memory of Peter Lougheed,…
Be careful what you wish for, Conservatives: Canadians may like a tougher Trudeau
Memo to Conservatives, New Democrats and others who are crowing about how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears to have been revealed as a harsher and less cuddly politician than he…