Sticker Shock
Back in June I wrote about the Ontario Conservatives plans to force gas stations to put politically torqued stickers on their pumps with misleading information about the federal Carbon Tax.…
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We Should All Spend $442 On Facebook Targeting Climate Deniers
Is Elections Canada really going to pursue environmental and advocacy groups that promote the truth?
Longueuil Changes
Politics can be a strange and fickle beast at times, or at least some days it feels that way. And in one way, that makes a lot of sense; people…
The Slanted Playing Field
Between elections it’s not uncommon for Parliament to makes changes and updates to the laws that guide our election campaigns. Sometimes that involves simple updates to make the laws more…
Provincial Campaigning in the 204
This week another political event started, with a provincial election in the province of Manitoba. Despite the fact that under Manitoba’s fixed date election law the next election wasn’t supposed…
Friday Odds and Ends
With the big news around LavScam from earlier this week it’s turned out to be a much more eventful week in political Ottawa than most of us were expecting. It’s…
Vicarious Liability
Yesterday turned out to be a much bigger day than most of us thought it would be when we all woke up on a lazy mid-August day. Ottawa has been…
Conflicted, Again
Just yesterday I was on CFRA talking about the most recent revelations from the CBC’s Aaron Wherry’s new book on the Prime Minister, which talked about Mr. Trudeau’s views on…
Getting the Length Right
The last Federal Election that we had in 2015 was remarkable for many reasons and we saw many things that we hadn’t seen before that had an effect on the…
Talking New Political Book, Debates and the Manitoba Election on CFRA
This afternoon I had the chance to talk with CFRA’s Rob on “News and Views” Strategy Session. Along with Melissa Lantsman, we talk about Aaron Wherry’s new book on Prime…
Funding the Local Campaigns
It takes many things to have success in electoral campaigns but it’s a cold truth that money is an important thing to have to run successful electoral campaigns. When you…
The Debate Debate Lives On
For the past few elections an on going part of the discussion around the campaign itself has been about debates, and for good reason. While not all debates make a…
Fine Print of the Guarantee
Watching the Ford Conservative government in their first 14 months of has been something else. It hasn’t been the smoothest operation and Doug Ford himself has managed to put a…
Taxes buy civilization
Neoliberalism has brought us extreme concentrations of wealth and power and a society governed by and for the rich. The Guardian reports America’s three wealthiest billionaires—Bezos, Gates and Buffett—have as…
Running Against the Trend
In every election there always seems to be a handful of ridings where the overall national narrative doesn’t really apply. That is usually the case due to a minor party…
First They Came For The …
New FBI rules concerning tracking conspiracy theorists will be a serious blow to free speech in the US.
Allegations & Revelations in British Columbia: Enter the Ethics Commissioner
It was just last week that I wrote an update to the story of British Columbia Liberal MP Joe Peschisolido and the allegations against him and his law firm. This…
Doctor Prescribed Opioid Crisis
it’s great to see this hit the mainstream media. A full in-depth coverage of doctor prescribed opioids, potentially creating the crisis that we’ve got on our hands today. Check it…
History Repeating: School Funding Edition
There are a few sayings that I really follow closely and/or truly believe in the wisdom of. One of those sayings that seems to come back with increasing frequency these…
This is not news.
Reading other blogs can be a sometimes painful mission. You do it to see what others are writing about, to study their style (or lack thereof) and to see what…