Canada Already Has A 1¢ Carbon Tax
Last year this Conservative government collected $424,418,000 in taxes to pay for carbon emissions. That same year Canadians used 38,208,346,000 litres of gasoline. Doing the quick math, Canadians paid 1.1¢…
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BC NDP Leader Adrian Dix Speaks Truth To Vancouver Board of Trade
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger BC NDP Leader Adrian Dix is offering BC Voters, including the business community, a thoughtful and measured approach to governing after years of a troubled and…
Covert Attempt to Criminalize Abortion – MPs Debate in less then 48 hours
From LeadNow.ca 'In just 48 hours, our MPs will debate a Conservative motion that the Canadian Medical Association, representing 70,000 doctors, is calling a ‘backdoor’ attempt to criminalize abortion. Prime…
Covert Attempt to Criminalize Abortion – MPs Debate in less then 48 hours
From LeadNow.ca ‘In just 48 hours, our MPs will debate a Conservative motion that the Canadian Medical Association, representing 70,000 doctors, is calling a ‘backdoor’ attempt to criminalize abortion. Prime…
Covert Attempt to Criminalize Abortion – MPs Debate in less then 48 hours
From LeadNow.ca ‘In just 48 hours, our MPs will debate a Conservative motion that the Canadian Medical Association, representing 70,000 doctors, is calling a ‘backdoor’ attempt to criminalize abortion. Prime…
Covert Attempt to Criminalize Abortion – MPs Debate in less then 48 hours
From LeadNow.ca 'In just 48 hours, our MPs will debate a Conservative motion that the Canadian Medical Association, representing 70,000 doctors, is calling a ‘backdoor’ attempt to criminalize abortion. Prime…
“Mud walkers”?
Seriously, Dalton. You can hire better social media writers than this. Mud walkers? Don’t you mean “rubber boots”? (5) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
So Did YOU Get a 3% Raise Last Year?
So, did you get a 3% raise last year? The average Canadian did. See the first chart below. If not, you’re behind the average Canadian. And even with a small…
Cartwheels in The Legislature
Cartwheels at Parliament! So, I was walking by Queen’s Park the other day and saw something that immediately made me nostalgic: a bunch of kids teaching another kid how to…
ConCalls: CoC Federal Court
-(Federal Court, ASS. PRESS) The Council of Canadians (CoC) court challenge is fiiiinalllly underway in Federal Court this morning. Well, sort of. It’s defending itself against the Conservatives who are…
Naomi Klein Speaks Out About The Kinder Morgan Pipeline To Vancouver
Here is a video taken over the Labour Day Weekend in North Vancouver. Naomi Klein may be best known for her book, ‘The Shock Doctrine.’ Well the good news is…
Here is the Harper Hates Us…
…banner being flown over southeast Ottawa yesterday! It went by the school playground where I was picking up my kids. I, of course, seized upon the occasion to give a…
The Not So Leblanc Slate
Leadership races are often an opportunity for a political party to start over with a blank slate, Liberals might not get that chance if a slightly hypocritical Dominic Leblanc gets…
TrapWire, PRIME, Now Alberta Police Fingered
I was shocked, and disapointed that the CBC article today about police reports including Charter violating intel, didn’t have mention of BC’s PRIME system.
BC Liberal Government Must Call A By-Election In Cowichan!
BC Liberals Fire the Cowichan School Board because the asked for more money and then they broght in a 1.4 Billion Dollar Deficit themselves! The Schools, students and teacher’s are…
Kate Middleton Exposes Canada’s Need For The Monarchy
Once a monarchy is to be defended like a Lindsay Lohan, the country that ultimately depends on it for stability will end up in far worse places than rehab. Besides…
Cowichan Voters Deserves A By-Election And Democratically Elected Trustees
Call a By-Election now, or refund my School Taxes! The shutdown of elected representation on the School Board has gone on long enough and it is time that Premier Christy…
CVRD Bylaws Will Not Protect the Shawnigan Watershed! So Bring In A New One!
The CVRD has the authority over land use. Will they draw up a bylaw that protects the Shawnigan Watershed, or not? The Assistand Deputy Minister of Environment Jim Standiford has…
Gaffe Seekers
How does the Daily Show or Fox News uncover hypocrisy of the political right or left? Do they have employees watching every news channel, every hour, of every day? No,…
I tell my kids that “hate” is not a nice word…
… but I am finding it increasingly difficult to avoid that word when thinking Harper’s ReformCons. Hey, I knew and we all knew that Stevie positively DESPISES the Public Service,…