Conservative Double-Standard?
Why, I’m shocked, simply shocked, I tell you, to discover that Conservatives would employ a flagrant double-standard when it comes to the matter of… well, anything. Of course, in this…
Harperland
But I Bet She Woulda Fired Michaelle Jean If She Hadn’t Have Allowed Stevie To Prorogue in 2008/09
A Montreal woman, Chantal Dupuis took it upon herself to write the Queen, asking her to fire ol’ Stevie Spiteful and his government. Hell, why not? If as all these…
Not a Good Time for Stephen Harper to be Compared to Richard Nixon
The historian Garry Wills once observed that Richard Nixon wanted to be president not to govern the nation but to undermine the government. The Nixon presidency was one long counterinsurgency…
Income inequality grows in Happy Harperland
Emily Dee points out the sickening reality of living in Fatherland. The rich are getting richer, the middle class is being crunched and the poor, well they just keep getting…
Harper’s Canada and Iceland’s President Olafur Grimmson
There was an excellent Globe editorial by Gerald Caplan focusing on how Harper has changed Canada in today’s paper. Give it a read. It’s good to remind ourselves what progressives…
Barely Five Minutes After He Was Announced Leader of The Bloc Quebecois, Daniel Paille is Out of The Starting Gate
It’s official, Daniel Paille has won the Bloc Quebecois leadership with a little over 61% on the second ballot (they used a preferential voting system). Ahuntsic MP, Maria Mourani came…
My Sentiments Exactly, However, Michel, We’re Not in Canada Anymore, This is Harperland, Now
An open letter to ol’ Chrissie Paradis, Harpercon MP for Megantic-L’Erable, which a fellow Montreal blogger, Michel from Chronicles of a Pure Laine graciously translated over at his site. I…
Hooligans and How the Cultural Left Can Beat the Political Right
This week in the Winnipeg Sun, a column by Tom Brodbeck; Hooligan Harper haters: Crime bill protestors partisan hypocrites, irked me on many levels. From the eye rolling “Harper haters”…
We Do Have a Moral Licence to Resist the Dictates of Harper Regime
McQuaig: Occupy moves us into a new era – thestar.com Linda McQuaig says “Canada isn’t a dictatorship, and so protesters — like the group now ordered evicted from St. James…