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 […]
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Was I wrong about Jack Layton? When he was alive, I always found him somewhat insufferable. A glad-handing, ‘hi how are ya’ kind of politician who was forever seeking the spotlight, and finding it, thanks to a doting press. I have always likened him to a used car salesman. But not what Layton is gone […]
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 […]
If you’re really hard up for something to do, turn your TV to channel 120, CPAC, the Canadian parliamentary channel. (The only thing sadder than watching CPAC is the fact that I know what channel CPAC is on.) The Jack Layton Party (the new name of the New Democratic Party — just check out their […]
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 […]
Things have been pretty quiet on the political front lately, what with all the snow and cold and with most politicians taking a winter break somewhere warm. But Mr. Warmth himself, Stephen Harper, sat down for an interview with whatever they call the company that owns the Journal now (Post-Southam? Post-Age? Postmedia?) where he floated […]
