In this YouTube video, activist hacker group Anonymous is demanding the resignation of Canada’s beleaguered Minister of Public Safety, Vic Toews. The group also calls for the dictatorship-style online surveillance…
This week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Public Safety Minister Vic Toews attacked the Internet with Bill C-30. And Canadians’ right to online privacy and a host of individual freedoms. But…
News from CTV last night that Harper is looking for a 10 per cent cut to Parliament’s $585M budget. A few thoughts come to mind. First, is this a distraction…
In a fit of pique I was searching for the concept of recalling the government or at least an MP. I found an article discussing this concept and how it…
In a fit of pique I was searching for the concept of recalling the government or at least an MP. I found an article discussing this concept and how it…
In a fit of pique I was searching for the concept of recalling the government or at least an MP. I found an article discussing this concept and how it…
In a fit of pique I was searching for the concept of recalling the government or at least an MP. I found an article discussing this concept and how it…
When Americans want to know the direction their country is taking they watch their President’s State of the Union address. When Canadians want to know the direction their country is…
“Well you know the Conservatives say, and we know the mantra those of us who have to sit through this every day in the House of commons, that Canadians gave…
Canadians would support our own political institutions if we didn’t idealize worse ones. The last few years have offered an incredible contrast in politics between what interests Canadians and what…
Are the BC Liberals a coalition of federal Conservatives and Liberals or are the Conservatives and Liberals just a federal party not yet united? There’s an answer to that question…
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has made it clear his government will not reopen the abortion debate. But Stephen Woodworth, the Conservative MP for Kitchener Centre wants to reverse course. And…
Having the luxury of being in government for so long allowed Liberals to think they were special, that there were huge differences between them and other parties, well there aren’t…
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There are lots of good arguments you can make that just adding more and more seats to the House of Commons to address shifting populations is a bad idea. For…
I write this from Arizona, where I've been attending a work conference this week in the Phoenix area. I'm staying through the weekend to see some hockey, as the Coyotes…
If what Ibbitson is saying today is correct, that federal seat reallocation legislation is going to be too late to add new seats by the time of the 2015 election,…
Democracy week may have come and gone with very little notice in Canada but this turns out to be Election Week. In Alberta, the PC party selected a new leader…
Democracy week may have come and gone with very little notice in Canada but this turns out to be Election Week. In Alberta, the PC party selected a new leader…
Lots of stuff to talk about at the beginning of this week: - The official Fall session for the federal Parliament begins today. The Conservatives and Harper will now begin…
