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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
So, what does it take to get fired by Stephen Harper? Would lying to the House of Commons be enough? Used to be that if an MP outright lied to the commons, that would be the end of his or her career. Not so in Harperland. If you’re in Harper’s good books, lying to the […]
Alison Redford is enjoying an extended honeymoon with the media, still swooning over the fact a supposedly progressive female has made it to the province’s top job. But Redford’s short time as premier — what has it been now, about a month? — has been riddled with snafus, foul-ups and flip flops. In her first […]
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 […]
