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Five months after the election of Canada's first-ever NDP official opposition at the federal level, it's now been declared conventional wisdom that the real opposition comes from provincial governments (who,…
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I'm sure it's utterly preposterous to even suggest that it's theoretically possible that the Harper Cons might want to torch public money just for the sake of torching public money.
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If there's any more important qualification for a Harper Con cabinet member than being described as "incredibly stupid" with a "colossal lack of judgment", it's a willingess to mislead the…
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I know I appreciate when partisan hacks who declared the NDP could never become the Official Opposition then fought to keep it from happening offer their entirely sincere instructions as…
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Somehow, I'm sure this proves that the NDP can't hope to hold its public support now that Jack Layton isn't around to lead it into the next election.
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The Conservatives might stand a better chance being taken seriously in talking about health-care accountability if they hadn't been the ones to end it.
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Nothing says open and accountable government like a little-known fiscal commission labouring in the shadows to decree what public services will get slashed and/or sold off. That is, unless it's…
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Anybody who sees the need to treat Amnesty International as an "adversary" has every reason to take a much closer look at whether they're on the right side.
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I can think of a few appropriate introductions to a plan belatedly acknowledging the existence of a housing crisis. But proudly pointing to past programs which have evidently accomplished nothing…
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The use of "library group" as a putdown says far more about the speaker than about the target.
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If there's any good news in the report that it's apparently impossible to keep corporate sponsorship off even the most political of public functions, it's that it should be highly…
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An environmental monitoring plan explicitly designed to improve the reputation of the industry involved is a thoroughly useless environmental monitoring plan.
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I know I can't think of a higher priority for Canada at the moment than to declare war on citizenship.
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Boy, is it ever a good thing we have a stubborn, unaccountable majority government to help restore confidence in Canada's economy.
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I won't claim to have compiled a full list of criticisms of the Cons' government. But I'm pretty sure that putting too many resources into environmental priorities would rank rather…