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…
Canadian Politics
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…
Stop Harper
Photo by Peter Blanchard It’s hard to recall as divisive a figure in recent Canadian political history as Stephen Harper. Few prime ministers have provoked as much animus among Canadians.…
votepopup: voter education at the library
On the long list of anti-democratic policies the majority Harper Government has enacted, the Orwellian-named Fair Elections Act ranks near the top. More properly called a voter suppression law, the…
Campaign Life website changes candidate’s answers to ‘no response’ – so what does Michael Cooper really think?
PHOTOS: St. Albert-Edmonton candidate Michael Cooper with his campaign manager, former St. Albert mayor Richard Plain. (Photo from Mr. Cooper’s campaign Facebook page.) Below: Screen shots of the Campaign Life…
Zunera Ishaq cleared by court to take citizenship oath wearing niqab
Richard Hughes Independent Strategic Voter PM Steve Harper has neither respect nor acceptance for the Supreme Court or the Constitution. Once again the courts have trimmed his sails, this time…
Joseph Stiglitz-Nobel Laureate Warns Of Trans Pacific Partnership Dangers
Richard Hughes Independent Strategic Voter Here we are in the last two weeks of the election and the TPP bomb hits us. CBC newscasts are treating it like an endorsement…