Women in politics: the “squeeze” factor
As any student of Canadian politics knows, Ellen Fairclough was Canada’s first female cabinet minister, appointed by Diefenbaker in 1957 and serving until her defeat as MP for Hamilton West…
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Springtime for Hitler in Ottawa
Last week, our favourite sweatervest hoarding Prime Minister made the world’s laziest Nazi/Hitler invocation during Question Period. This is the latest in a string of Hitler references made by sundry…
Live Web Chat with Parker Mackay, Candidate for OYL Riding Director 8:00pm tonight!
Streaming live video by Ustream I’ve had the pleasure of working with Parker on the 2012 provincial election campaign. As founding members of the Whitby-Oshawa Young Liberals, we have worked…
Headlines like this…
… make me grin from ear to ear; even if my day is as crappy as Hell. Oh, and of course he’s doomed. Witmer’s riding will go to the Libs.…
Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s Speech in Support of the Abolition of Capital Punishment (House of Commons, June 15th, 1976.)
“I am sure that very few of us consciously contemplated, when we decided to run for public office, that we would find ourselves playing a decisive role in the resolution…
Who Owns Creations
One of my most popular videos is one of Richard Stallman answering my questions about the proprietary nature and danger of iPads and cell phones. YouTube linked me to this…
That ain’t strategic voting, Mr. Topp. That’s called campaigning.
So I just read this article by Brian Topp in the Globe and Mail. And I have to say, it is obvious to me that either Topp is being willfully…
A Merger That’ll Never Happen
The left in the province of Alberta will never merge. There are four core reasons for this to be the case. Firstly, the NDP is directly tied, through its organization,…
State of Albertan Politics
Having just got back from vacation (we visited the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida), it’s time to get a bit more back into blogging. I posted the following as an…
Green Party of Sask AGM ; Hot Wind
I helped out at the Green Party of Saskatchewan’s AGM this year. It’s the first Green anything AGM I’ve been to. I’ve previously been to a Sask Liberal leadership convention…
Interpersonal Politics – Movie Monday
So, recently a number of friends of mine have gone on the job hunt or are just generally trying to figure out their professional life. Maybe you’ve guessed that by…
A polarized Canada
Several weeks ago, a journalist from the Montreal Gazette called me up for a conversation about a feature she was writing about the increasingly polarized nature of Canadian politics. We…
A polarized Canada
Several weeks ago, a journalist from the Montreal Gazette called me up for a conversation about a feature she was writing about the increasingly polarized nature of Canadian politics. We…
A polarized Canada
Several weeks ago, a journalist from the Montreal Gazette called me up for a conversation about a feature she was writing about the increasingly polarized nature of Canadian politics. We…
A polarized Canada
Several weeks ago, a journalist from the Montreal Gazette called me up for a conversation about a feature she was writing about the increasingly polarized nature of Canadian politics. We…
The Real Bev Oda Scandal: Politicizing (& Corporatizing) Canadian Foreign Aid
That now-infamous taxpayer-subsidized luxury hotel switcheroo in Mother London? Small potatoes. Don Cayo: nalysis by Fraser Reilly-King, a policy analyst at the non-profit Canadian Council for International Co-operation, shows substantial…
Friday Night
Liza Minelli and Joel Grey explain the surprising results in the 2012 Alberta Election. Also, the Toronto Star won five National Newspaper Awards.
Tabatha Southey FTW
Her column today, The form letter to cure all Harper government missteps is great. She’s got to be about the funniest columnist out there.
KONY 2012 – Why we need to focus on another cause
I keep seeing these posters all over town about KONY 2012. For a while I saw statuses and YouTube videos posted on facebook and Twitter about the documentary that Invisible…
Strong Climate Change Law Passes in Mexico
Of the three countries in NAFTA, Mexico seems to care the most about the environment. The country just passed a strong law that will product the environment and aim to…