Well, very little time left to make a decision and I don’t have a favourite party. I have been very interested in listening to Green Party candidates and I believe that they ought to have a voice in parliament. So if I lived in a riding with a very strong Green Party candidate, I would […]
Has Harper blown it?
It is striking how Stephen Harper has bollixed this election campaign. In 2006, he ran a model opposition party assault, not only decrying the squalid condition of the Liberals after their long run in power, but also staying a step ahead of them by announcing nearly every day a new initiative, policy, plan. Two years […]
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 […]
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 […]
Greens are good for you
Should Canadians accept CTV, CBC (which is remarkably stupid — have you heard the new Radio 2?) and Global (which has always been stupid) as the gatekeepers for national debates? Oh, I don’t think so. Given that the Greens rate higher in the polls than the Bloc (which is pretty funny), Canadians ought to hear […]
A load of fertilizer
By guest blogger Alison@Creekside Remember this? Sure you do. It was back in June 2006, coincidentally two weeks before the vote on whether or not to let the Canadian Anti-Terror Act expire, that the RCMP sold a load of fertilizer to two CSIS moles embedded in a Muslim outdoor club, had it delivered to a […]
Oh, for a non-stupid socialist party!
In preparation for the Alberta election on Monday, New Democrat canvassers have phoned me twice. I have spoken to three of them, all of them well-intentioned and well-spoken and all delivering messages of alarming stupidity. The first fellow asked me if Brian Mason (ND leader) could count on my vote. “Sure,” I say, “If you […]
Jack Layton: thanks a lot, buddy
There is a reason that the New Democrats will never form a federal government. They keep making the same mistake over and over again: Stupidity. Years ago, I actually thought the NDP had a reasonable chance at not coming off as butt-stupid until Audrey McLaughlin’s shrieking interjection during a televised three-party debate: “But what about […]
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