Red Chamber Blues
BC Premier Christy Clark took a break from bullying teachers yesterday to back the idea of elections to Canada’s Senate. If the private member’s bill introduced by Liberal John Les…
Liberals
Liberals Hate Women!
Sheesh! Who knew? Extrapolating on Rush Limbaugh’s demeaning 3-day long tirade last week against the female law student who had the audacity to testify recently before Congress about the role…
BC Teachers On Strike Yet Still Teaching
This week Teachers in BC haven’t even been in the classroom, yet they’ve still managed to teach their students one of the most important things; how to take a stand.…
The BC Teachers’ Regressive Labour Strike
In 2010 the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation declared its opposition to the HST because it was a regressive tax, affecting the poor and families more than the wealthy and corporations.…
Conservative Cracks
Three years until we vote, meaningless, yes I understand! Nanos poll out with a few noteworthy results, not the least of which the walking dead party, the Liberals, touch 30%…
RoboCon: Rough Week For Democracy
I know it’s going to be a rough week for the Conservatives, when there are election-levels of traffic coming to my blog for political information. I don’t know when I’ve…
Del Mastro: ‘Robocalls? Sure. Ridings exist? You’re crazy.’
On a February 28th episode of CBC’s Power & Politics Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro announced his party was investigating the Robocall Scandal; on that same show he went on…
Ignatieff’s Liberals & Romney’s Republicans
The comparison between Canadian politics and American politics has been made more than once, the similarity of Liberal and Republican dominance in their respective countries during the last century is…
The Day Stephen Harper Called Canada a Benign Dictatoship
“Canada’s system of one-party-plus rule has stunted democracy.” – Stephen Harper (and Tom Flanagan) Not long ago, Stephen Harper suggested that “although we like to think of ourselves as living…
NDP & the Decline of Labour
The NDP is certainly not asking whether it should abandon organized labour, but maybe organized labour should ask whether it abandon the NDP. What does it say about the New…
Vikileaks vs. RoboCon
Democracy is more important than the feelings of a hypocritical and creepy politician. http://ianmcbain.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/NOPE.jpg
Robo-Gate: Harper Conservatives stole the 2011 election from the NDP
The New Democratic Party (NDP) suggested in a press conference today that the Conservatives rigged the May 2011 federal election against the Bloc Quebecois, NDP and Liberals. Call it election…
Weed As A Winning Wedge
From my perspective, there was a lot of misguided “scoffing” when the Liberals emerged from their Convention advocating marijuana be legalized. The passage was extrapolated into an indictment of not…
Don’t Toews Me Bro – Conservatives Eying Email Spying
Minister Vic Toews is a nice guy, on Mark Horseman’s authority. I have to disagree, the evidence to the contrary is too strong. Nice guys don’t try to destroy the…
Analysts remarks reveal underlying bias, I say
Sometimes PostMedia News goes so far as to almost parody itself. One might even think that this article from the Vancouver Sun could have been written by Fox News North…
Liberals Riding High in Quebec?
There’s been a lot of buzz lately over the small snippets of a recent federal Forum poll that shows the Liberals gaining steadily on the NDP, especially in the province…
Ontario PCs…
… give the Liberals another election victory! Great news that the PC’s walking-talking campaign disaster has been given the nod to continue to “lead” the party… probably into another election!…
Harper Conservatives on Liberal’s Plan for OAS – 2004
Back in 2004, the Harper Conservatives accused the Paul Martin Liberals of having a “hidden agenda” to raise the age to qualify for the Old Age Security to 67. The…
The State of Play in #TorDan
Announced this week, Toronto-Danforth voters will head to the polls on March 12th 19th to vote for a new MP after the death of NDP Leader Jack Layton, who had…
The Dope On Marijuana
Perhaps more interesting than the Liberals- at least their assembled delegates- advocating legalization of marijuana, has been the reaction to said passage. I sense some hostility, revolving around the notion…