Peter McKay marries a human rights activist
Storified by Toronto Star 2 days ago · Peter MacKay gets hitched (where’s the helicopter? Twitter lit up with jokes after news broke that Conservative cabinet minister Peter Mackay married…
Conservatives
Liberal Convention 2012: The Need For Open Primaries
In 2011 I was on the convention floor in Calgary, Alberta, advocating for the same change that is in front of the federal Liberals today (see constitution document here ).…
Conservatives: We don’t need no stinkin’ evidence
Lone Saskatchewan Liberal MP Ralph Goodale is calling for an independent group to measure the financial effects of the end of the Canada Wheat Board’s monopoly. He rightly doesn’t trust…
Liberal Pride
Many Liberals may take pride at the sight of increasing poll numbers, they shouldn’t. The Liberals have problems, increasing poll numbers aren’t going to fix them. Liberals need to build…
The Myth of the Greedy Union Thug
I can’t help but notice how Stephen Harper and his Members of Parliament have been running rough shot over unionized workers lately. There have been several instances of the Federal…
Toronto City Budget – The Problem Is Ford
Numbers Game | Toronto Media Co-op The City budget is not and has never been in a financial crisis according to figures released by the Wellesley Institute, an urban health…
Liberals & Conservatives, Two Halves of One Party
Are the BC Liberals a coalition of federal Conservatives and Liberals or are the Conservatives and Liberals just a federal party not yet united? There’s an answer to that question…
CBC – The Armageddon Factor
News clip by the CBC regarding the growing influence of the religious Right with the Conservative Harper government, and interview with Marci McDonald, author of The Armageddon Factor. See also:…
As Candidate Quits NDP Leadership Race, Canadian Bilingualism Triumphs
Robert Chisholm dropped out the race to replace the late Jack Layton as the Federal leader of the New Democrats for a noble reason. The Nova Scotia NDP MP doesn’t…
Real Agenda: Outrage Is Sometimes Justin-fied
I’m proud of Justin Trudeau’s outburst in Question Period. He called the Environment Minister Peter Kent a “piece of shit” for blaming an NDP MP for not attending Durban’s climate…
Wind Through The Ears
The Windmill NIMBYs are in Saskatoon now. While other countries are getting rich off green jobs and renewable energy sources, we have old farts who are looking gift horses in…
Harper Government Cuts to transfer payments to provinces should surprise no one
Canada News: Ottawa to scale back health transfer payments – thestar.com This has been Harper’s plan all along – cut federal money spent on healthcare and social services. The premiers…
Canadian Democracy and willful blindness
It was the Liberals who proposed as part of their attack ads that Harper was a man with a “secret agenda.” I considered these attack ads (as I consider all…
Canadian Democracy and willful blindness
It was the Liberals who proposed as part of their attack ads that Harper was a man with a “secret agenda.” I considered these attack ads (as I consider all…
Canadian Democracy and willful blindness
It was the Liberals who proposed as part of their attack ads that Harper was a man with a “secret agenda.” I considered these attack ads (as I consider all…
Canadian Democracy and willful blindness
It was the Liberals who proposed as part of their attack ads that Harper was a man with a “secret agenda.” I considered these attack ads (as I consider all…
Withdrawn Outrage
When is outrage acceptable? When something is outrageous. Canada’s position on pollution controls is outrageous, so it’s fine that Justin Trudeau lost his temper and swore at Environment Minister Peter…
POS Canadian Government
WARNING: This blog post uses frank ideas that may offend idiots. The CBC link contained inside it contains a language warning, even though the offensive word is “shit”, and it’s…
Molly’sBlog 2011-12-14 12:30:00
CANADIAN POLITICS: CONSERVATIVES ATTACK UNIONS ONCE MORE: Well, this probably counts as non-news as nobody should be suprised that a Conservative Party wants to gut the power of organized workers…
Don’t Confuse me with the Facts I’m Trying to Run a Country
What does the Conservative Party of Canada have against facts? What is so wrong with empirical data? Are questions I would love to ask our Prime Minister. It started last…