The Liberal Housing Plan
Canadians will vote in a general election on April 28. Here’s my ‘top 7’ overview of the Liberal Housing Plan: https://nickfalvo.ca/the-liberal-housing-plan/.
Liberals
Trump’s Chump In Charge
What’s wrong with Conservative leader PP? It’s not like he tagged all his YouTube with misogynist hashtags to attract them, then stopped when questioned by media. It’s not like he…
Christy Clark is a Damn Liar Like Many Conservatives
And she’s not good enough of a liar to be Prime Minister of Canada. There’s she’s caught lying about being a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. You know…
Chaos and the Importance of Community
“In the most dangerous of times, those who escape and survive generally know people whom they can trust. Having old friends is the politics of last resort. And making new…
Liberal Finance Minister and also Fraser are Out of Cabinet!
Big news, Freeland and Fraser are out of cabinet! Will Canada have postal mail again? All this and more in Doel’s latest video.
Give Ford an A for appointing Philpott
The announcement that Ontario’s Conservative government had appointed Dr. Jane Philpott, former federal Liberal cabinet... The post Give Ford an A for appointing Philpott first appeared on Views from the…
New Brunswick and BC’s promising election results
In less than two weeks the world’s most important election will take place, and the... The post New Brunswick and BC’s promising election results first appeared on Views from the…
SACA is Over, Liberals Disapointing
The Supply and Confidence Agreement is over. The Liberals failed uphold many terms of the agreement. The CBC describes “drug meat sings” (autocucumber Jagmeet Singh’s) decision to end the agreement…
Liberals Are Right About Conservative Intentions
But the Liberals are wrong about the solution. Their betrayal on electoral reform has given the CPC’s PP power over them. They could be working collaboratively to implement things the…
Conservatives Turned Into a Soft-core Hate Party So Gradually, I Hardly Noticed
How in the ever-loving Eff could someone not realize that the Conservative Party of Canada was now a party willing to weaponize hatred to gain support, money, and Internet trolls?…
Plague Update: If We Don’t Report It, It Doesn’t Exist
There's a clear reason this happened, and satirists around the world are noting it.https://t.co/QKs3LPOsXR — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) April 17, 2023 On the eve of this Roughriders season, it's…
Canada’s 2022 federal budget
Canada’s 2022 federal budget had a very strong housing focus. I’ve written a ‘top 10’ overview of the budget here: https://nickfalvo.ca/canadas-2022-federal-budget-was-a-housing-budget/
A Great Day For Canada
About fricken time the Liberals and NDP came to an agreement to stop the never-ending short election cycle. This should have happened last year. Now let’s get some movement on…
Don’t Blame the Liberals
Risible rightwing piffle still circulates online about who is responsible for the rising costs of fuel and food. Conservatives and libertarians love to blame the Liberals, but that’s self-serving claptrap…
COVID and Homelessness: Ten things to know
I was recently invited by the The Economics Society of Northern Alberta to speak at their 2022 Outlook Conference about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on homelessness. Here’s an…
Liberal party’s housing platform
With a federal election taking place in Canada in fewer than three weeks, I’ve written a 950-word overview of the Liberal Party’s housing platform. It’s available here: https://nickfalvo.ca/ten-things-to-know-about-the-liberal-partys-housing-platform/
Hundreds of Kids Found Dead In Unmarked Graves
A normal country would declare several days of mourning after a mass grave of children was discovered. — Nora Loreto (@NoLore) May 29, 2021 Canada is a normal settler-colonial country…
Canada: Ten things to know about the federal role in housing policy
I’ve written a 750-word overview of the federal role in housing policy. The English-language version is here: https://nickfalvo.ca/canada-ten-things-to-know-about-the-federal-role-in-housing-policy/ The French-language version is here: https://nickfalvo.ca/canada-dix-faits-saillants-sur-le-role-du-federal-en-matiere-de-politique-du-logement/
Glen and the Greens
I first took note of Glen Murray when he was mayor of Winnipeg. I was active in my community in inner city Calgary and Murray seemed to share my sense…
Think what we could have accomplished if we’d concentrated on climate change like we’re focusing on COVID-19!
“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully,” observed Samuel Johnson, a great wit of the 18th…