Well, here we are at the end of another arbitrary span of 365 days that we call a year. And what a year it was! Things happened! Famous people died! Future famous people were born (how come nobody talks about that?)! Movies and TV shows were produced, some of them good, and some of them […]
Category Archives: Federal election
On this lazy Saturday morn (as opposed to my lazy Monday morn, my lazy Tuesday morn, etc.) a couple of mini-comments on provincial and federal politics. First, the NDP honeymoon with the media appears to be ending. After the revelation by the Globe and Mail that interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel was once a member […]
As you might expect if you’ve read this blog before, I’m not too thrilled with the results of Monday’s election. Or, as I’m calling it, Our Darkest Day. Just kidding. I find Stephen Harper fairly loathsome, and I don’t like much of what he proposes for Canada. But the people have spoken, and I’m of […]
Jut a couple of weeks ago, this election nobody apparently wanted seemed destined to be an either/or conclusion: either Stephen Harper gets his majority, or not. But strange things have been happening, and nothing more strange than the New Democrats and their glad-handing, used-car-salesman leader Jack Layton and his impossible promises pulling ahead of the […]
Woe, Canada. A week from today, we will once again deliver ourselves in the hands of Stephen Harper, the cold-eyed autocrat with the immovable hair and insatiable desire for power. There is still a chance that just enough Canadians will rise from their La-Z-Boys, turn off the Stanley Cup playoffs, and cast their votes for […]
Personally, I’m not going to get all riled up that Elizabeth May isn’t going to be in the televised leaders debates for the federal election. On a very basic level, it makes sense … no seat in the House of Commons, no seat at the table for the debate. Yes, the Greens got 6.8 per […]
