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With a week to go Harvey Locke is 2% short of taking on the Tories and winning in Calgary-Centre. It’s that close. That’s some 100 votes. This is a once…
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Canadians Don’t Trust Canada
Sao Paolo, Brazil – 140 people have died in the last two weeks in battles between police and inner-city gangs. Be hard to be held in lower esteem. This was…
Why Are The Tories Pushing Canada Into Recession?
Remember how the Tories are the party you want to vote for in tough economic times because they’re great managers and willing to make the tough decisions? Remember all that…
Liberal Leadership ’13: We Don’t Really Know What’s Going to Happen
If anyone thinks they know what’s going to be the end result in the Liberal leadership contest (which just had its new rules announced) they’re dead wrong. Nobody knows what…
‘Winners’ And Losers In Quebec Asbestos Mess
Photo: Vsmith/Wikipedia Support for Canadian chrysotile asbestos is dead. First point, this: Canada should have gotten out of the asbestos game a long time ago.All asbestos causes cancer. We won’t…
End of an Era: ex-Premier Peter Lougheed Dies
Peter Lougheed (1928-2012) died on September 13th. After decades of service to the public, heart problems and, coupled with pneumonia, he died at the Peter Lougheed hospital. His family has…
And the “I didn’t Vote” Whingers are at it Again….
As the proverbial dust settles on our raped and pillaged Canadian democracy, there are outcries everywhere about this drastic rewrite of our country’s laws and protections.. How many of the…
I Need A Million!
John Baird helped out the Canadian Federation of Chabad Lubavitch by helping them get 1 million dollars in federal money. The money that went to Chabad was out of a…
2013 BC Libs & 2015 Federal Tories will be booted out
The People are not stupid. They know when they are being taken for granted. They know when they are being lied to. They know when they are being discriminated against.…
Why Canada will have a new government in 2015
Andrew Coyne has put his journalistic finger on the Achilles Heel of the ‘Harper Government’ – its inherent untrustworthiness: Stealth PM Harper But while the public might have been inclined…
The 2015 Election: Why there will be a change of government
Stephen Harper is claiming that the “Harper Government” has delivered on its promises, and will strengthen the economy , while slashing jobs left right and centre in order to reduce…
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…
Abortion: The Liberal Party should respond with a boycott
Stephen Harper promised before the election not to reopen the abortion debate if he was re-elected. Now one of his MPs is tabling a motion to reopen the debate. Harper…
Harper Tory Government is a bad manager of our economy, says Auditor-General
Harper’sgovernment is responsible for the proper functioning of the civil service. Oneof their key jobs is to ensure that Canada’s affairs are run in a competentfashion, lest we slip into…
Alberta Votes: It’s going to turn ugly.
Today we saw another Progressive Conservative choose to throw Ms. Redford and the PC campaign under the bus: this time, for the opposite reason Ms. Kennedy-Glans did yesterday. A MLA…
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…
The Guardian Reveals Key Funder of Global Warming Policy Foundation Is Michael Hintze
GWPF.jpeg Cross-posted with permission from The Guardian by Graham Readfearn, Leo Hickman and Rupert Neate Michael Hintze, a leading Conservative party donor who runs the £5bn hedge fund CQS, has…
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…
The Most Logical Structure for NDP-LPC Cooperation
Those who favour a merger of the NDP and Liberal Party should not hold their breath. These two parties have values systems that are significantly different at the moment, and…
Even with a new leader, the NDP can’t defeat the Tories alone
I just can’t get excited about the NDP leadership race, which ends March 24 in Toronto, because irrespective of who wins, it’s hard to see it leading to a positive…