Stephen Harper reminds me of a panicked child, surrounded and overwhelmed in the schoolyard, red-faced and flailing at every perceived enemy and striking not a one. It would be nice if our issues could be solved with quick fixes, but they can’t. For instance, more people in jail does not reduce crime — just glance […]
Will Canada become bank bait too?
I still haven’t made up my mind how to vote. But I do think that if any leader is going to beat Harper, who is still doing astonishingly well in the polls despite ample evidence that his party is populated by boorish ignoramuses, he or she has got to quit reacting and start providing a […]
Dion’s plan hits home
Let’s talk about real quality of life and how a decent government program can contribute to it. Many years ago, nobody could afford to get into the housing market in Alberta. So the provincial government offered new home buyers an interest-free loan of $5,000 to help out with their downpayment. I took one of those […]
It ain’t over till it’s over. It’s over.
Item: An Angus-Reid poll puts the Conservatives at 38% of the vote, Liberals at 24%, NDP at 21%. The BQ have 9% and the Greens 7%. Item: Green Party leader Elizabeth May will take part in the TV debates after all, thus further splitting the left-wing vote. Items: Former PQ minister Jacques Brassard suggests the […]
Perceiving Dion
Well, Dion has already fallen into the first of the Conservative traps, by letting them put him on the defensive. Straight out of the gate, he’s insisting he’s not the caricature the Tory ads make him out to be. Of course he’s not, but reminding us of the caricature is not exactly the best way […]
This election, let’s talk about real quality of life
Maybe it is because the prairies are still wide open and pristine that Western Canadians would rather vote for Harper than Dion or Layton. Or maybe it’s because Harper, as savage as his world view is, hasn’t been tainted by corruption. I don’t know Dion well enough to know whether I trust him but I […]
