By Frank Moher Don’t get me wrong. I’m glad the Wicked Witch is dead, and may now return to his true calling running far right-wing lobbying organizations and sitting on the boards of oil companies. However, I voted strategically to ensure that happened, and, even though the local candidate I voted for won, I am […]
The debate: Blow by blow, tweet by tweet
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Trudeau stands up
By Montreal Simon The other day I wrote a post where I asked, or begged our progressive leaders to elevate their game. To go big or go home. And make the struggle to defeat the Harper Cons a larger struggle to save Canada and its values. And I have to say that last night in […]
Parliament shooting: What the leaders said
Stephen Harper: “My fellow Canadians: for the second time this week, there has been a brutal and violent attack on our soil. Today our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Cpl. Cirillo was killed today — murdered in cold blood — as he provided […]
Harper and FIPA: Sell-out on a Friday afternoon
By Montreal Simon He waited until late Friday afternoon to announce that the Cons had ratified their controversial trade deal with China. Hoping that most people wouldn’t notice. Ottawa confirms it has ratified a foreign investment treaty with China, more than two years after the controversial agreement was signed, as CBC News first reported Friday. […]
Problem: Too much democracy. Solution: Fair Elections Act.
By Alison@Creekside “What problems are the Conservatives really trying to solve with bizarre Fair Elections Act?” asked Andrew Coyne in an excellent column two days ago. I’d like to pillage that question and expand on it a bit. Problem: Investigation into election fraud in 2011 Election, 33 months ago, being rushed along at dangerous breakneck […]
Trudeau’s coat tails won’t get the Liberals elected
By Frank Moher I joined the Liberal Party in order to vote in the leadership thing. Having done so, I will now duly unjoin. The idea of me being a Liberal is ridiculous. I am sufficiently an Albertan (albeit ex) of a certain age (getting on) to regard the Liberals as the party of the […]
Will Canada’s Progressives defeat themselves?
By Montreal Simon In the growing darkness of Harperland, it’s hard to know what’s the truth, what is illusion, and what’s just another Big Lie. But sometimes the truth is so blinding, like a fire in the sky, that it’s impossible to ignore it. Or to live, like so many Canadians, in a state of […]
The Plan, Part Deux
By Frank Moher Previously on The Plan, I explained why, despite the depredations of the current federal government, the Canadian political universe is unfolding as it should — or at least as I hoped it would when I was a young journalist in Alberta in the 1980s. The Harperites are doing what they can to […]
Friendly Canadian input on the US election
By David Taub Bancroft The sun is shining. The flowers are blooming. We are in a year that is divisible by four. I think we all know what that means. In a matter of months, our American friends will once again start hanging chads or whatever it is they do to hold a presidential election, […]
