With this sixth installment, we conclude Katrina Kairys’s series on getting to know Canadian politics from the ground up, by volunteering during the 2015 federal election campaign. Our thanks to Katrina for keeping our readers’ spirits buoyed with her enthusiasm and humour throughout. Previous installments can be read here. By Katrina Kairys You win some. You lose some. […]
I voted strategically. I shouldn’t have.
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 […]
Katrina’s campaign journal: 20-somethings for democracy
We continue Katrina Kairys’s series on getting to know Canadian politics from the ground up, by volunteering during the 2015 federal election campaign. Previous installments can be read here. By Katrina Kairys “Do we happen to have a sledge hammer? Nope? I guess I’ll have to go grab one tonight.” I give Mira a confused look. […]
Harper and the spawn of the Great Satan
By Montreal Simon Oh dear. I see that Stephen Harper had to take the day off on Saturday. No doubt to try to recover from the brutal effects of the long campaign he inflicted upon himself. And get a full spa treatment. Because let’s face it he needs one … Every day he looks more bagged […]
Katrina’s campaign journal: Election buzz
By Katrina Kairys This is part four in Katrina Kairys’s series on getting to know Canadian politics from the ground up, by volunteering during the 2015 federal election campaign. You can also read installments 1, 2, and 3. With less than three weeks until the election, the federal campaign is coming to a boil. Canadians […]
Harper’s flying monkeys (and the man behind the curtain)
By Montreal Simon I must admit it is getting a bit grim out there. Fall has finally arrived, it’s getting colder and darker, the skies over this ghastly Harperland are filled with flying monkeys. Stephen Harper is a frenzy urging them on to destroy his enemies, with his poisonous wedge issues. And of course this is […]
Katrina’s campaign journal: Party line
We continue Katrina Kairys’s series on getting to know Canadian politics from the ground up, by volunteering during the 2015 federal election campaign. Read installments 1 and 2 here and here. By Katrina Kairys I was blown off last night. I really thought things were going well, and I suppose it started out okay, but we had a difference […]
Katrina’s campaign journal: Dans Outremont
With this second installment, we continue Katrina Kairys’s series on getting to know Canadian politics from the ground up, by volunteering during the 2015 federal election campaign. Read Ep. 1, “New kid on the doorstep,” here. By Katrina Kairys Shortly after canvassing in Toronto, I headed to the province next door to see how the […]
Shattering Stephen Harper’s Legacy
By Claudio D’Andrea At a slim 124 pages, Mel Hurtig’s latest book, The Arrogant Autocrat: Stephen Harper’s Takeover of Canada, doesn’t leave him much track to bulldoze the Conservative prime minister’s record. Instead this series of short chapters is like a bobcat that levels the mess that “The Harper Government” has made of our country. […]
ISIS rampages, artists fuss
By Jim Henshaw It wasn’t the first time somebody has died on stage. Two of recent theatre’s great comedians, Dick Shawn (The Producers) and Sid James (pick any Carry On . . . movie) both did final pratfalls that convulsed their audiences –- until the realization dawned that they were never getting up again. Genesius, the […]
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