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So. First day of October. Here’s bits and pieces, this and that: Ipsos says the Tories are ahead, and have been ahead since the start of the election campaign. Warren…
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Death by a thousand tax cuts.
Canadian voters are being nickel-dimed and conned by their politicians. Even Elizabeth May and her greenies have joined into the game of making promises, with funds, from where, they do…
The Over-Analyzed Election.
It’s a circus on the hustings. It is like somebody tossed a cherry bomb into the outhouse. Everybody has an opinion to lay on you as to what is happening…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Manfred Bienefeld writes about the gap between the urgent problems we face, and the sad excuses for policies on offer from the Libs…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – George Monbiot argues that it’s time to cap the amount of wealth any person can accumulate, while highlighting the importance of accepting…
My latest: the speech Justin Trudeau should have given, but won’t
My fellow Liberals, my fellow Canadians. Last week, I spoke about the scandal that has hit my campaign. I didn’t do it right, so I’m now going to try again.…
My latest: in a campaign about nothing positive, don’t give them something negative
The land is strong. Sound familiar? Remember that? The old-timers do. It was an actual slogan that was deployed in the 1972 federal election campaign. Didn’t work out too well.…
The timeless media tempest.
It seems as though this election is taking place just for the benefit of the news media. I am not sure of the right word for it but it is…
So far, so what?
The dispatches from the front line of the current election strife are mostly about stupidity, compounded by incompetence. Despite the usual whining, scratching and digging up old pictures of each…
My latest: Justin Trudeau likens black people to apes. Don’t let him get away with that.
An ape? The video is grainy. It’s blurry, and it’s hard to make out who is in it. But we don’t have to guess. The Liberal Party of Canada has…
BREAKING: shocking video of our racist Prime Minister in blackface
It’s from 2003, I’m told – more recent than the photos from last night. In it, he acts like an ape – which leaves to wonder if that’s what he…
We can do that ourselves, thank you.
This ongoing concern for foreign countries interfering with our federal election is more of a joke than a threat. It is not that it could not happen, but why bother?…
Prime Minister Furious At Himself
Canada’s bonehead Prime Minister, in an effort to look more like Boris Johnson, has turned up in an old photo sporting a culturally inappropriate turban costume while wearing what is…
My latest: this isn’t the face of a Prime Minister
Blackface. I’ve been writing about, and researching – and opposing – racism for more than thirty years. And make no mistake: blackface isn’t funny. It’s racist. Ask Megyn Kelly. A…
Singh seeks separatist support.
The NDP’s leader Jagmeet Singh must be desperate. In a province that discriminates against people such as him because of his turban, he is pandering to the péquiste to try…
Ms. May has the bit in her teeth.
Elizabeth May must have promised her bathroom mirror that come hell or high water, she was going to improve her green party’s position in parliament. And she has the chance…
On Inequality, Democracy and Taxing the Rich – A Modest Proposal
No doubt many raised in our capitalist society, where inequality rules and excessive incomes and wealth are seen as a right (and where even the NDP only proposes a measly…