“Mommy, It’s over!”
The sign-off for the Just for Laughs television show seems quite appropriate for this election. Though it was hardly just for laughs. There are still a lot of tears to…
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The Day That Could Decide Whether Our Canada Lives Or Dies
I waited until the very last moment to write this final post of the election campaign, for a very good reason.It was such a nice day I thought I should…
NDP’s Jagmeet Singh’s upriSingh has been the big breakthrough in Canada’s Federal Election
THEPROVINCE.COM Michael Smyth Mike Smyth: All eyes on B.C. as the federal election comes down to the wire Opinion: The bloom came off the Trudeau rose in a nasty…
The NDP never did explain…
THE NDP NEVER DID EXPLAIN… WHAT IS WRONG W/ RANKED BALLOT?! In case you forgot, the House of Commons Special Committee on Electoral Reform, AKA ERRE, was an all-party Parliamentary…
YOU. BOUGHT. A. PIPELINE. — THREAD ALERT!
THREAD ALERT! Anyone remember FIPA? The Canada-China trade agreement that Stephen Harper signed w/o ever tabling it in Parliament? #cdnpoli #elxn43 1/10 FIPA has given China UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS to Canada’s…
Another bad night for Canadian democracy.
When will we treat these election debates as what they are? When they told us that there would be six leadership hopefuls and five moderators for the one English-language debate,…
There was actually something new in the leader’s debate Monday — alas, it’s not a good thing
The United States’ two-party political setup may not be much of a template for actual democracy, but at least it has lots of potential for interesting leaders’ debates. A televised…
New column day
Here, on the echoes of previous campaigns in Canada’s federal election – including the possibility that the 1972 minority government scenario might be the best outcome of all. For further…
Death by a thousand tax cuts.
Canadian voters are being nickel-dimed and conned by their politicians. Even Elizabeth May and her greenies have joined into the game of making promises, with funds, from where, they do…
The Over-Analyzed Election.
It’s a circus on the hustings. It is like somebody tossed a cherry bomb into the outhouse. Everybody has an opinion to lay on you as to what is happening…
Some Heavy Lifting
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The timeless media tempest.
It seems as though this election is taking place just for the benefit of the news media. I am not sure of the right word for it but it is…
So far, so what?
The dispatches from the front line of the current election strife are mostly about stupidity, compounded by incompetence. Despite the usual whining, scratching and digging up old pictures of each…
Which is more distressing, the idiocy of our PM or the hypocrisy of our Opposition leader?
Which is more distressing, the immaturity and sheer idiocy of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or the nauseating hypocrisy of Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer? One of them, sad to say, is…
Ms. May has the bit in her teeth.
Elizabeth May must have promised her bathroom mirror that come hell or high water, she was going to improve her green party’s position in parliament. And she has the chance…
Andrew Scheer’s Filter Needs A Maintenance Recall
Andrew Scheer’s Indigenous ‘hostage’ comment provokes tongue-lashing at first election debate By Carl Meyer, Stephanie Wood, Emma McIntosh & Fatima Syed in News, Politics | September 12th 2019 “Hold hostage.”…
The Maclean’s Debate and the Leader Who Was Not There
It was without a doubt the worst and most amateurish debate I have ever watched, a tedious ordeal if ever there was one. The set was tacky, the Con fluffer…
Two More Good Reasons Not To Vote For The Green Party
I'm starting to feel sorry for poor Elizabeth May. She is Canada's most popular leader, and this election was supposed to be her election.The other day she told Vassy Kapelos…
They’re At Post!
Finally. This never-ending scrabbling for political position has a finite finish line. The free-for-all has focus and Elections Canada is in charge. Like with stewards at the track, there are…
Justin Trudeau doesn’t know your life, and he never will
In it for you. It’s the New Democrats – now a sad shadow of their former selves – who, ironically, came up with the best slogan for the 2019 federal…