Why Canada Day Was For Me The Best Canada Day Ever
A year ago I wrote a post about Canada Day and called it Canada Day in Harperland: Between Hope and Despair.Because although I never lost hope that we would defeat…
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Celebrating Our First Harper-Free Canada Day
It was a beautiful blue summer day in the Great White North. The kind I dream about all year round.A chance to get away from the city, feel the clean…
Electoral Reform and The Final Destruction of the Cons
It's been almost seven months since Stephen Harper and his foul Con regime came crashing down.And I'm still celebrating that happy day. But I've also been patiently waiting for another…
Celebrating Spring and the Light After the Darkness of the Cons
At first glance it might seem like a strange way to celebrate the arrival of Spring in the Great White North, and the end of the Great Darkness.By turning out…
Celebrating a Trudeau Christmas in the New Canada
It's Christmas Day, and although it's a bit gloomy out there because it won't be a white Christmas in the place where I live.It seems to me that the lights…
Remembering Harperland’s Last Nightmare Before Christmas
As you know I have been having a bit of trouble getting into the spirit of the season.It has been dark and gloomy and foggy where I live, and so…
The Hairy Question: Why Was Margaret Atwood Censored By the National Post?
We've all seen this absurd clip in that ghastly Con attack ad at least a thousand times. For there is no escaping it.And if you're like me you have no…
The Main Reason Stephen Harper Must Be Defeated
This photo was released today by the Con Ministry of Propaganda, and is apparently designed to portray Stephen Harper as a leader bearing the burden of governing this country as…
Stephen Harper and the Insanity of Harperland
I'm glad I'm leaving Canada for a while because I really need to get away from this ghastly political monster.Who is now so desperate, he is turning his depraved Harperland…
The Sad Saga of Mother Canada and Jesus Harper
As you may know a Toronto businessman wants to build a massive statue called Mother Canada in Cape Breton Highlands National Park.And although it is a private initiative, the foundation…
The Crimes of the Con Regime and the Country We Could Be
As the fireworks burst over my neighbourhood last night, and I watched the Cirque du Soleil's amazing performance at the opening ceremony of the Pan Am games, I was reminded…
Canada Day in Harperland, Between Hope and Despair
It's Canada Day in Harperland in the grim year of 2015. And I must admit I'm finding it hard to find a reason to celebrate, or find words to express…
How Stephen Harper Changed the Face of Canada
It still looks like the Canada I first saw on a glorious fall day long ago, through the window of a plane coming into land at Montreal airport.As I bounced…
Why Canada Desperately Needs a Magna Carta Moment
Yesterday was the 800th anniversary of the day King John reluctantly signed the Magna Carta, the document that was the foundation of our parliamentary democracy, and the rule of law.And…
The Harperland Spring and the Phony War
I must admit I'm finding Harperland this week a little strange and rather depressing. Or should I say even stranger and more depressing than usual.For although we could be just…
Is Stephen Harper the Worst Prime Minister in Canadian History?
It's not a question most people who know me would dare ask me.Lest they be forced to listen to a five-minute diatribe, or watch my face turn red, and smoke…
The Strange Harperland Spring and the Propaganda Challenge
It's been eerily quiet down by the waterfront where I live. It still doesn't feel like Spring.People seem strangely subdued. And although I am looking forward to all the good…
Springtime in Harperland and the Battle to Take Canada Back
Well Spring has finally arrived in the little corner of Canada where I live. The hockey goals have been fished out of the once frozen canal where they sank after…
Blogging in the Darkness of Harperland
When I started blogging nine years ago I never could have imagined that so many years later I'd still be blogging in the darkness of Stephen Harper's Canada.Or that after…
Justin Trudeau and the Politics of Fear
The other day I wrote a post where I asked, or begged our progressive leaders to elevate their game. To go big or go home.And make the struggle to defeat…