I Couldn’t Agree More
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Harper Lies: The Dismal Truth About Corporate Tax Evasion
My friend Gary recently alerted me to this, which should sicken all Canadian citizens. It is a story of corporate greed, massive amounts of lost tax revenues, and a government…
Plausible Deniability?
After watching the Prime Minister’s ongoing repetitive and wholly unconvincing responses to Thomas Mulcair’s incisive questions during Question Period, and after reading the latest details of the RCMP investigation into…
Rick Mercer On The Harper Regime’s Shoddy Treatment Of Vets
As a supplement to The Disaffected Lib’s excellent post on Remembrance Day, take a look at Rick Mercer’s thoughts on a government that not only has turned its back on…
We Are All To Blame
Here is a letter from today’s Star that puts responsibility for the proliferating problem of deceitful, inept, corrupt and demagogic political leaders where it belongs: on all of our shoulders:…
Time For A Break
Recently, as I watched Peter Mansbridge’s One on One interview with former Prime Minister Joe Clark, I was reminded of a time when Canadian politics had more texture, depth, structure…
Rather Appropriate, Don’t You Think?
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The Insularity of Our National Leader
Yep. Certainly sounds like Harper’s got a resounding mandate for change: Recommend this Post
Another Nail In His Coffin
Stephen Harper, the self-professed economist (can you call yourself that when you don’t have a Ph.D.?) who ‘claims’ such sterling management to the economy, has received another blow to his…
Carnival in Calgary
I hear that the Tory convention is turning out to be a real circus: Recommend this Post
A Debt Owed To The Media
As fashionable as it is to denigrate the mainstream media for their frequent timidity and conservatism, public knowledge about both Rob Ford’s disgraceful performance as Mayor of Toronto and the…
What U.S. Steel Shutdown Reveals About Harper
While all of us continue to be riveted by the ever-deepening pit into which the duplicitous Prime Minister is digging himself over the Duffy scandal, other events are equally revelatory…
Rick Mercer’s Disgust With Harper
The following video is self-explanatory, but if you would like to read more about it and the Harper clan’s seemingly endless capacity to not answer questions, check out this link…
The Web Grows Ever More Tangled
They say that when he was a journalist, Mike Duffy would often regale his listeners with tales of political intrigue gleaned from his many sources. A raconteur at heart, Duffy…
Vengeance Is Mine, Sayeth Harper Regime: An Update On Sylvie Therrien
This past July I wrote two posts on Sylvie Therrien, the government employee suspended because she leaked documents that revealed federal investigators were told to find $485,000 of Employment Insurance…
Wading Back Into The Fray
Having spent yesterday recovering from the temporal vicissitudes imposed by trans-Atlantic travel, my first post back will be brief and on one of my favorite subjects, The Man Who Would…
Will He Or Won’t He?
2015 is not very far away. It may be the year of liberation, the year Canada reclaims its collective soul, or it may be the year in which Canadians elect…
Canada, Doesn’t This Sound Familiar?
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Not Again!
I just got back into town and heard the news. I have a simple message for our gutless ‘Prime Minister’: Recommend this Post
Some Sunday Recreation
Think I’ll go out on my bicycle this morning. In the meantime, enjoy these letters on the Senate imbroglio found in yesterday’s Star: Machiavelli wrote: “Those who governed the state…