An open letter to @jacklayton on the future of the Senate
April 23, 2011 Dear Jack, Recent media reports suggest that you see yourself running to be my next Prime Minister. As you know, the Harper Tories now hold a majority…
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Write your MP about the Electoral Reform Motion
This is an email I just sent my member of parliament. If you care about electoral reform you should too. You can find your MP here. Here is the debate…
Calgary Herald Opposes Basic Democracy
To no one's surprise the Calgary Herald wrote an op-ed wholly justifying the Senate's vote down of Bill C-311, the Climate Change Accountability Act. It seems so twisted, to me…
Link Byfield "Resigns"
Link Byfield resigned his position as one of Alberta's senators-in-waiting today. I was hoping at his press conference he might have explained why his friend Senator Bert Brown participated in…
Flaherty: Deficit will be retired by 2011
OTTAWA - Faced with record federal debt, Finance Minister Smilin' Jim Flaherty boldly predicted that the federal government's deficit will be erased within twelve months. "We're going to sell more…
Rand Paul Parties Like It’s 1964
by matttbastard Belated congratulations to newly-minted Kentucky GOP Senate candidate and latest Tea Party ubermensch of the moment Rand ‘Son of Ron’ Paul, for defeating the establishment candidate with Chuck…
Andrew Coyne speaks to the Liberal Party, but will they listen?
I’m just growing more and more fond of Andrew Coyne as time goes on. Maybe I’m getting older and more conservative, or maybe he’s getting less so. Or just maybe,…
The Next GG Should be Elected
News today that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is looking for a new Governor General. A number of names have already been suggested for possible replacements. I won’t speculate but my…
Andrew Coyne’s Modest Proposal
The Canadian Interwebs are ablaze with anger over the recent prorogation of parliament and polls tell us that even the general population is quite upset. Hopefully the fast growing Facebook…
You should read this about senate reform
You should read this about senate reform, espeically Jim Q’s comment on a PR solution http://ow.ly/TKs3 #cdnpoli #senatereform #fairvote Posted in Politics Tagged: democracy, fairvote, parliament, Politics, reform, senate
Not Everyone Thinks Like You
Posted from a comment via HuffPost What I find really interesting is how this is further evidence that people always assume that others would do exactly as they themselves would…