Kiss-off for Kitimat.
Surprise, surprise: The jewel of Canada’s beautiful Pacific Coast is now to be a commercial port for supertankers carrying tar sands bitumen to the Orient. Did you think the exercise…
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Why would Wynne want by-elections?
Obviously Premier Kathleen Wynne was not listening to the results of the last provincial by-elections in Ontario. She wants to stick her neck in a noose in two more. The…
This must be why Harper holds on.
There have been conflicting opinions about whether Stephen Harper is going to stay on as prime minister to fight another election. In some cases, his expected departure might just be…
Jim Flaherty: one sick leprechaun.
The federal Finance Minister was spreading nothing more than germs at the Meech Lake meeting yesterday. He was probably high on amphetamines, his nasal passages completely blocked and one step…
Making it one simple idea.
An election campaign usually comes down to be one basic proposition. If the perception of this proposition is not obvious, the news media will often pick something. What most political…
Business as corporate citizens.
Do you know why Heinz closed its Leamington plant? Or why Kellogg closed its London, Ontario plant? The plants were old. They had been there for a long time. We…
Making a sham of fair elections.
The third party advertising in Ontario has already gone too far. Now the Conservatives are proving it is a sham. And it is hardly to their credit. A new group,…
The squeeze on the political middle.
If the Liberal Party of Canada thinks it is going to please the middle class with its policy plans, it is deluded. The party cannot even define middle class. The…
Time for the Tory backbench rebellion.
It is the last chance for the drones of parliament. They can either rebel now or fade away with their ill-fated Conservative Party of Canada. Those who have done nothing…
Conceiving a caring Canada.
Your country is like your garden. It takes care, cultivating, weeding and the approval of others to make it a source of pride. And if Canada is your garden, it…
On getting e-mails.
There was an executive decision years ago when this blog started that there is little need to waste time editing comments from others. To be fair, your writer also does…
Is Premier Wynne a temporary worker?
There seems to be good and bad coming out of Queen’s Park these days. It is nice to see that Labour Minister Yasir Naqvi’s proposed bill protecting temporary workers is…
No wipes please, these asses are Canadian.
When does a biodegradable product not degrade? It seems that when the product crosses a border there are different levels of biodegradable. And it is causing trouble. It seems that…
Chong is challenging the Hair.
An e-mail a few days ago said: You gotta support Michael Chong’s private member’s bill to democratize Parliament. The initial response to the request was to ask why waste time…
It is easy to mismanage billions.
A person with just so much money to last until the next cheque, learns to manage money. They have to and they can become very careful and frugal. Conversely, persons…
The Hair heads for the Holy Land.
What does Prime Minister Stephen Harper think he is? He sure is not the fourth wise man. Besides, the Hair and his hairdresser are not going to be in Israel…
Guilty of disrespect of Parliament.
There ought to be a law. In fact, there has to be. We cannot continue to allow these disrespectful scoffers to ridicule our parliamentary system of government. And that is…
He knows if you’ve been bad or good.
We are not talking about Santa here. We are talking about the Harper Conservatives. And they want more and more information about how you feel and what you think. Now…
Not all Liberals are liberal.
There was a bit of concern watching Wynne’s Whigs turning out to help in the federal by-election in Toronto-Centre recently. It was obvious at that stage that Liberal candidate Chrystia…
The tenacity of troglodytes.
It is probably disrespectful to our prehistoric ancestors to think of some people arguing about how we vote as cave-dwelling troglodytes. They seem to insist on going backwards instead of…