Some Glum Faces At The Manning Centre
Clearly, it was not the kind of news they had gone to the Manning Centre to hear, and, it seems, they did not receive it with particular good grace. As…
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This Just In!
And it is very encouraging, in that it appears Canadians are beginning to wake up to the true nature of the Harper regime: Nearly two-thirds of Canadians believe that the…
His Hands Are All Over It
Like an ugly stain that resists the most determined efforts at removal, Bill C-520, a ‘private member’s bill’ proposed by Conservative MP Mark Adler, has Stephen Harper’s signature and paranoid…
Another Guest Post From The Salamander
I sincerely hope that other commentators on my blog do not think I am playing favourites when I repost another’s comments as a guest post. I sincerely welcome and value…
An Issue So Many Of Us Grapple With
This letter to the editor reflects an issue I think most of us in the progressive blogosphere struggle with, as do the folks at samara: Voter turnout is the key…
A Telling Distinction
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Shoulder Shrug
Like many of the commentators and bloggers whom I read, I regularly feel a deep frustration over the passivity of people. No matter what the problem, be it political, social,…
An Initial Reaction To The Budget
To paraphrase the Soup Nazi, young people, “No job for you!” This message brought to you by the Harper government, not hard at work for you. H/t PressProgress Recommend this…
Peace Of Mind: An Elusive State
Do not go gentle into that good night.Rage, rage against the dying of the light. – Dylan Thomas I have now passed seven years of my ‘official’ retirement; it will…
Rick Mercer Takes Aim At Julian Fantino
Rick Mercer surely is one of our national treasures: Recommend this Post
Too Good To Resist
And, of course, Fantino and the entire cabal showed what they are really made of yesterday in The House of Commons. For an incisive evisceration of Fantino et al., check…
The Measure Of The Man
Sounds like Rick Mercer has the Harper cabal’s number: Recommend this Post
Refusing To Become What The Harper Government Wants Us To Be
While Stephen Harper’s trip to Israel is receiving wide domestic media coverage, coverage that I have been studiously avoiding out of deference to my at-times delicate sensibilities and constitution, the…
The Harper Legacy: Empty Mantras And Empty Ideology
I hope readers don’t think I have grown lazy or burnt-out when I reprint letters from The Toronto Star. It is just that their observations and ideas are frequently so…
A World Badly In Need Of Inspired Leadership
Since he was elected to the position, I have written several posts related to Pope Francis; several of them express a renewed hope that the plain-speaking pontiff can generate some…
Can Loyalty Oaths Be Far Behind?
In yet another development in the dangerous drift toward autocratic rule, the Harper cabal, under the guise of a private member’s bill introduced by Mark Adler, the Conservative MP for…
A Faint Ray Of Hope?
Those of us who write blogs on a regular basis, I suspect, have a high tolerance for the uglier aspects of humanity that we regularly confront in our exploration of…
A Motivational Video
If Stephen Harper’s contempt for the things we hold dear as Canadians isn’t reason enough to vote, what is? Recommend this Post
An Unspeakably Sad Picture
But this photo of materials tossed in a dumpster upon the closure of the Fisheries and Oceans Canada library in Mont-Joli, Que. also speaks volumes about the Harper contempt for…