So, for those of you who missed it, after Justin Trudeau (son of the late, venerated Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau) became leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, the Tories – being the Tories – went on the attack with… Continue Reading
It is wonderful to hear that Chief Theresa Spence is out of hospital. Her hunger strike lasted 43 days, and no doubt to a grave toll on her health. Further, I hope that Chief Spence’s protest, along with the greater… Continue Reading
…wait, what? I thought Mr. Harper was a heartless, cruel man who loved nothing more than the almighty loonie, like any good Tory. Well, Maclean’s (and Laval University’s) Stephen Gordon disagrees. Prof. Gordon argues: The Conservatives’ rabid demonisation of the… Continue Reading
I have written about Hélène Campbell twice recently. She is a 20-year-old Ottawa woman who was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. It was decided that she would need a double lung transplant, and, while waiting for new lungs, she launched a successful… Continue Reading
Here’s a new ad by the National Citizens Coalition aimed at the Conservative governments spending: Hat tip: Stephen Taylor (who works for the NCC and runs the aggregator Blogging Tories).
There’s a bit of a scandal brewing up here. The Ottawa Citizen‘s Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher broke the story that the servers of a call centre with ties to the Conservative Party were used for misleading and potentially illegal robocalls… Continue Reading
For quite some time, it has been a standard policy of the Canadian government (stretching back before the current government) to intervene on behalf of any Canadian sentenced to death in a foreign land. For one person, though, the government’s… Continue Reading
With increased deficits and other fiscal demands, the Canadian government is ready to make some serious changes to the Canada Pension Plan. One potential change that has been floated is to raise the age of eligibility from the current 65.… Continue Reading
Writing in Huffington Post Canada, J.J. McCullough (who maintains Filibuster Cartoons) argues that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has abandoned his conservative roots in all but one area: Old Stephen Harper opposed big government and runway spending. New Harper has presided… Continue Reading
As you may know, pipelines are pretty big news in Canada right now. Not only were there plans, now scuttled, to build a pipeline going south, but there are still plans to build a pipeline going to the west coast,… Continue Reading