Election 2011: The Liberals elect the Conservatives
By Alison@Creekside Just a 2% increase in the popular vote took the Cons from 143 seats in 2008 to a 167 seat majority tonight, thanks to our fucked up first-past-the-post system and because of what happened in key ridings in Ontario where presumably the Lib voters moved over to the Cons: ie., in Toronto the [...]
Doing the Orange Wave
By Montreal Simon As you know I have always tried to be as non-partisan as possible. All I want is ANYONE but Harper. But these days, like most people in my neighbourhood, I’m also hoping for an orange wave. I’m hoping for that because I honestly believe that what Jack Layton has managed to achieve [...]
Debate: By not losing, Harper won
By Montreal Simon I wish I could say that the three opposition leaders smoked Great Ugly Leader last night, and that they were still hoovering him off the floor. But they didn’t, so I can’t. Because at this point delusion could kill us. They held their own, they landed some good blows, but their attacks [...]
Stephen Harper and the Kingdom of the Numb
Our regular Politics blogger, Alison@Creekside, is under the weather. While we eagerly await her return, we offer you posts from some of our other favourite Canadian political bloggers, beginning with: Montreal Simon Gawd. What an awful day. Work was hell. It was rainy and slushy. The brand new rink is melting. And then when I [...]
Canada’s UN flop is well-earned
By Alison@Creekside It would seem that such international policies as 1) unstinting support for everything Israel 2) actively undermining the Copenhagen summit climate talks 3) delaying debt relief to Africa to advance the interests of a Canadian mining company 4) flip flopping hostility to China 5) snubbing an International AIDS Conference held in Canada 6) [...]
Libs go AWOL on own war resisters bill
By Alison@Creekside For want of just eight more votes, Bill C-440 — the war resisters bill to give protection to US Iraq war deserters — went down to defeat on Wednesday 136 to 143. The following 18 Libs expedited that defeat by going awol on the vote: Michael Ignatieff, Jean-Claude D’Amours, Ruby Dhalla, Kirsty Duncan, [...]
Airshow Mackay and the Red Barons
By Alison@Creekside Frankly I don’t think we can be expected to write a whole new blogpost every time Flying Ace “Airshow MacKay” and his trusty sidekick Woodstock Kory climb up on top of the Con doghouse to fight off the Red Baron yet again in the Arctic, so this time we’re just going with what [...]
The Cons find their wedge issue: Israel
By Alison@Creekside Two days ago Jason Kenney’s communications director Alykhan Velshi tweeted that Con MP Tim Uppal from the inquiry panel at the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism will be looking for unanimous all-party approval when he introduces a motion to condemn the use of the word “apartheid” as applied to Israel in the [...]
Mr. Ignatieff misses the point
By Nicole Walyshyn Michael Ignatieff was once again out west this weekend, telling the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce all sorts of things he thought they wanted to hear: that they were prescient and progressive, having been the first CoC to admit women as members; that they were right to label Stephen Harper’s response to the [...]
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