The nicab during citizenship debate is missing one major element
Many of us have been disgusted the way that the election campaign’s hottest issue has been whether Muslim women should be allowed to wear the niqab during a citizenship ceremony…
Canadian Politics
This Hour Has 22 Minutes—Mulcair Interviews Mulcair
Talk about a setup! I mean, I mean, come on eh! I done told ya that them there NDP’ers and Liberals and Greens controlled the media. Well now they are…
Early Voter Engagement Strong, Elections Canada Chief Says
Richard Hughes This CBC report below tells of substantial voting by students across Canada. These students face years of struggle to pay back huge student loans and may well be…
Six Ways That the Greens Are Canada’s Most Progressive Party
In the midst of a campaign dominated by horse races and attack ads, by fear and scandal and appeals to our basest political instincts, it is easy to forget that…
Independent MP Brent Rathgeber gives St. Albertans a former Tory insider’s take on the many sins of the Harper PMO
PHOTOS: Independent MP Brent Rathgeber, in a typical pose, chats with a couple of constituents at last night’s candidates’ forum in St. Albert, Alberta. Below: Conservative candidate Michael Cooper, Mr.…
Fortune favours the brave? Trudeau risks advocating sane gun laws and ripping PM’s dog-whistle bigotry
PHOTOS: Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau during a visit to Edmonton last year. Below: NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair and Prime Minister Stephen Harper. It should have been natural for the…
Joining Empire: Canadian Foreign Policy under Harper
Photo by ISAF Headquarters Public Affairs Office Since the Conservative government of Stephen Harper came to power in 2006, shifts in Canadian foreign policy have been a flashpoint of debate…
Robbing the poor to give to the rich
Illustration by Matt Mahurin, posted on reuters.com blog From the outset of his political career, Stephen Harper’s overriding mission has been to dismantle Canada’s nascent version of social democracy and…
Unwelcome to Canada
Migrant farm workers march for their rights, Learnington, Ontario, October 2010 • Photo by Gerardo Correa. Jason Kenney is currently Stephen Harper’s defence minister, but he made his mark as…
Colonial past, colonial present
“The more Things change, the more they stay the same.” The aphorism may be overused, but it aptly captures the current state of relations between Stephen Harper and Indigenous peoples:…
Malice in Harperland
Stephen Harper; photo posted on brunchnews.com, March 23, 2015 It is difficult to take the measure of the destruction Stephen Harper and his fellow Conservatives have wrought during the last…