Banning floor-crossing is silly.
Last November, Mathieu Ravignat (NDP-Pontiac) and Peter Stoffer (NDP-Sackville-Eastern Shore) introduced a Private Member’s Bill that would prevent MPs from switching parties (crossing the floor as it is called in…
politics
Generation X gets shafted – again
A recent study by PwC Canada of the Canadian banking sector found that Generation X – roughly defined as people born between 1961 and 1981, after the Baby Boom –…
Obligatory Budget Post
Today the NDP surpassed the Conservatives in the polls and the Chief Electoral Officer testified to a House of Commons committee about the potential electoral fraud in 200 ridings in…
Canadian Federal Government Budget: A Lesson in Politics and a Day to be Sad
So, when the dust settles, and the lights turn off in the TV studios, all that will be left is you, me and a bunch of axed programs and projects…
The federal budget: spite and bile to pump up the base
So it turns out all the nasty rumours were actually true.
ConCalls: Live #PROC Committee – LiveBlog
Watch live on CBC.ca Kady: In what can only be described as a deeply unfortunate bit of scheduling business, Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand is set to make his first…
The Conservative legacy will be…
Article in the Globe and Mail says that this budget is Flaherty’s best shot at creating a Conservative legacy. I decide to think about what that legacy will look like:…
Parade of Disgraceful Conservatives
The Conservative Party of Canada could use better people to back it, and its ideology. The current support crowd online has some pretty obvious, and significant flaws: threatening lawsuits (both…
PC candidate throws Allison under bus.
You know it’s bad in Tory town when their candidates start to throw the central campaign under a bus. Ms. Kennedy-Glans, running against Bruce Payne (Lib) in Calgary-Varsity, has called…
O America – Health Care and Gay Marriage
I usually stick to writing about Canadian politics but since I am on temporary exile in the “Land of the Free”™ for my postdoc I have been meaning to add…
O America – Health Care and Gay Marriage
I usually stick to writing about Canadian politics but since I am on temporary exile in the “Land of the Free”™ for my postdoc I have been meaning to add…
RoboCoke: Fun Contest to Celebrate Dying Democracy
I dislike both Coke and iTunes, thinking the world would be a better place without either of them. I hate RoboCon a lot more though, because our country would be…
On the tarmac…
… In Montreal… on our way to Paris… Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Cut staff but not services? That’s unpossible
Now when I was a journalist, if someone made an assertion as daft as the one above, I would have left it out of the story just because it made…
Austerity: The High Cost of Tax Cuts
Austerity is a most vile concept, particularly when you think of just how rich Canada is.
One Piece At a Time
… and it didn’t cost me a dime. – Johnny Cash I went to the latest Design Regina public forum Tuesday night, at Artesian on 13th Ave. That building is…
Gee wilikers but if you call that a balanced approach to defict reduction
I suspect you have a hard time standing upright. The McGuinty government released its budget and just so that they could put “everyone will feel some pain” in their talking…
A Taste of Things to Come?
So, my friend over at www.nuncscio.com remarked to me a couple of weeks back that Canadian politics tends to be about 5-10 years behind that of our American cousins. He,…
Why Thomas Mulcair gets it when it comes to Israel
Not surprisingly, Thomas Mulcair won the NDP leadership last month, replacing Saint Jack Layton as the man social democrats hope can rally left-of-centre voters to defeat Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s…
Making Sense of Youth Voter Apathy OR Why Youth Voter Apathy Makes Sense
I’m 28, and I’ve voted in every federal election since I was old enough to do so. Yet I understand why the majority of people my age didn’t, and won’t,…