I’m taking some perverse pleasure in watching NDP leader Thomas Mulcair try to finesse the Keystone XL pipeline issue. Not too long ago — in fact, anytime before the 2011 breakthrough election — the NDP would have had no problem staking out a position on the pipeline. Mulcair would have been loudly opposed to the […]
Category Archives: Canadian politics
The news that Marc Garneau is quitting the federal Liberal leadership race is bad news for the Grits, and good news for the Conservatives. How’s that, you say? Well, the bad news part is easy. Justin Trudeau’s way to an easy, resounding, first ballot coronation has been cleared with his only remotely possible challenger now […]
Ah, politics. It has the potential to inspire, and an even greater potential to inspire derisive laughter or fits of rage. Here, for your reading and enraging enjoyment, are my choices for the top 10 political blunders of 2012, local edition. 1. Allan Hunsperger and the ‘lake of fire’ In the April provincial election, the […]
Stephen Harper once told an American right-wing think tank, “You won’t recognize Canada when I get through with it.” I used to think that was just a rare unguarded, boastful moment from Harper. He was in a comfortable environment (American right wingers, whom he has been emulating for years), and who knows, he might have […]
Let us take a moment to send a hearty ‘Thank you’ to a gutsy Ontario Superior Court judge, who has told Stephen Harper to stuff his mandatory sentencing where the sun don’t shine. OK, she didn’t exactly put it that way. Judges are generally a little more sophisticated than that. But Madam Justice Amy Molloy, […]
It’s been a while since I last blogged, as I’m sure you’ve noticed (he said delusionally). Maybe it’s just the January blues, maybe it’s just that I haven’t found anything that really tickles my farcical fancy. Whatever the reason, I guess it’s time to get back on the ol’ blogging horse. And what better way […]
I’ve just finished reading Peter C. Newman’s latest book, When The Gods Changed, a worrisome journalistic autopsy on the death of Liberal Canada. It’s a typical Newman effort, full of insider stuff that nobody else seems to know (or tell) and astute observations. I recommend it for anyone interested, and concerned, about the state of […]
