The Greens Could Deliver The Upcoming Election To Steve!
Richard Hughes-Your Humble Blogger The conundrum of electing our governments based on a ‘First Past the Post’ system has never been as clear as it is today with an October…
Canadian Politics
Government by sneak: the preferred Harper Conservative response to thorny issues and hard-fought elections
PHOTOS: Poultry farmers not exactly like these, and dairy farmers as seen below, are facing sneaky attacks by the Harper Government. And speaking of the chickens coming home to roost,…
The movement against Stephen Harper
Photo by M. Rehemtulla The movement to bring down the Harper government goes well beyond the opposition political parties. Canadians horrified by the authoritarian market fundamentalism of the Conservatives are…
Need for Reform of TFW Program highlighted by Human Rights verdict
A roundtable discussion with labour and migrant justice organizers on how the progressive community in Canada should respond to temporary foreign workers program. • Photo by No One Is Illegal…
Canadian Medicare and the Retirement Conundrum
Photo by Christine Singh Powell River, British Columbia – There’s been lots of attention paid recently to the Canada Pension Plan and how to extend it, and news stories and…
Real Change – democratic reform package released by Liberals gets attention.
Yesterday in Ottawa, Pierre Trudeau and over 160 candidates (inc. my friend Danielle Takacs) released a set of 32 democratic reform proposals called “Real Change”, which would significantly overhaul how…
Alberta NDP throne speech brings spending, taxes, and a strange PC flame-out
Don Braid The Alberta NDP were elected, an amazing feat in a province long dominated politically by the Progressive Conservative dynasties of over forty years. Oil and Gas and the…
‘Harper in the Hot Seat’: Michael Harris on The Agenda
In “Party of One,” journalist Michael Harris argues that Stephen Harper has given Canada a radical makeover – one that fundamentally threatens Canadian democracy. He lays out his arguments and…
Stuff Happens, week 22: A death in Edmonton; Peter MacKlown strikes again; an NDP miscue
A dark week in Edmonton. Const. Daniel Woodall, performing what should have been a fairly routine arrest at a west Edmonton home, was greeted with a hail of gunfire that…
Rafe Mair- Woodfibre LNG Plant–LNG Tanker Traffic–Fraser River LNG Terminal
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger It seems that for some considerable time the whole fracking and LNG play was over there, up north, away from our direct experience, and to a degree…
CBC-Truth and Reconciliation Commission Findings Must Be Acted Upon, Aboriginal Student Says
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is out, many of us have welcomed the report, its’ findings, and its opportunity to face but not accept the incomprehensible abuse that native families…
Uncomfortable thought (or 2) on Harper’s stand-offish attitude to Truth and Reconciliation Report
Some of you may have read this at Rabble the other day, about a theory Karl Nerenberg has as to why Harper seems to not support the report of the…
Alistair MacGregor Campaign Party–Saturday June 6th at the Duncan United Church on 246 Ingram Street, Duncan BC. Doors will open at 5:30 PM.
Alistair MacGregor Campaign Party Our NDP Candidate for Cowichan-Malahat-Langford Rob Douglas-North Cowichan Councillor Hello Everyone: I am hosting a campaign party for my friend Alistair MacGregor, our new NDP candidate…
Rafe: What Tom Mulcair must do to become Prime Minister
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger We are living in a state of political turmoil and uncertainty. Never in our history have we as Canadians looked into the face of facism, until…
The Harper Doctrine in Red? Justin Trudeau’s Foreign Policy
Photo by Alex Guibord With its legacy of peacekeeping and respect for the United Nations, one notable feature of Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s foreign policy was his willingness to disagree openly…
A question for the crowd…
Today’s announcement that Peter MacKay is not going to run for his seat in Parliament this fall has me thinking that maybe this is a sign that Stephen Harper is…
Peter McKay to announce that he is stepping down as Justice Minister later today-Harper shellshocked!
Peter McKay has been one of the most significant players in the Harper government from the beginning. No loss to Canada but this significant departure hurts Steve’s re-election efforts. Is…
The miracle of birth…
It’s so thrilling to see a foundling cracking the shell for its first few pecks at freedom. (And never has a better beak been built to crack one, too!) And…
Speculation increasing that 2015 election writ will be dropped in August
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger Steve Harper and his thugs in suits are in high gear cheating, lying, rigging the system. They are desperate, and for good reason. When they lose…
Angus Reid: Strong Support For Bill C51/Strong Support for Oversight. (Liberal position vindicated in this poll)
Given the furore over the past couple of months on social media – most of it NDP activist driven – you’d think that the entire country hated Bill C51, the…