Pushed to the Left and Loving It: Not So Much Reform as Special Interest Groups
Jeffrey Simpson has an interesting column this week: Remember the Reformers? They’re still here In it he suggests that the Conservatives are now putting policies in place written for the Reform...
View ArticlePushed to the Left and Loving It: A Half a Century Later and We are Losing...
The Canadian Manifesto: How the American Neoconservatives Stole My Country In researching the conservative movement on both sides of the border, one thing becomes clear. In the U.S. they don’t like...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: NCC: Not Much Blood on Canada’s Hands!
NCC logo.jpg It's Christmastime in Canada – when all self-satisfied ideologues take a moment to lift the finger of blame and point it at somebody else. "Credit" for outstanding performance in this...
View ArticleText of 1997 speech by Stephen Harper to US right-wing think tank
For anyone surprised by Harper’s moves and plans now that he has a majority, it is enlightening to read this speech our current PM made when he was VP of the ‘United Citizens Coalition’ to the Council...
View ArticlePushed to the Left and Loving It: Not a Good Time for Stephen Harper to be...
The historian Garry Wills once observed that Richard Nixon wanted to be president not to govern the nation but to undermine the government. The Nixon presidency was one long counterinsurgency campaign...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. - Environics’ polling on inequality shows over 80% of Canadians wanting to see governments reduce the disparity between the rich and the poor – even as the current...
View ArticlePushed to the Left and Loving It: Should the National Citizens Coalition Lose...
When it was learned this week that Bob Rae is now polling 24 points ahead of Stephen Harper, many of us wondered when the Harper attack ads would begin. It took exactly 17 minutes and 43 seconds...
View ArticleCanadian Progressive World: NCC fundraising letter exposes Stephen Harper’s...
Way back in 2001, Elections Canada charged a certain Paul Bryan for violating section 329 of the Canada Elections Act. Stephen Harper, then President of the National Citizens Coalition, a conservative...
View ArticlePushed to the Left and Loving It: If Stephen Harper Was Still a Libertarian...
There is a great site called 404 Systems Error, that functions much like Wikileaks, though with Canadian content. They have recently posted an old fundraising letter of Stephen Harper’s from 2001,...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Stephen Harper’s Pathological Hatred
While I stand by my comments about The Globe and Mail in my last post, the paper does have one real asset in the person of Lawrence Martin. Unlike other Globe employees who seem strangely constrained...
View ArticleCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Harper v. Canada: Understanding Stephen Harper’s...
Welcome to Harper v. Canada, a new column that digs deep to understand Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s current war against our democratic institutions, freedoms and dissent. The column uses two...
View ArticleCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Harper v. Canada: Stephen Harper Addresses Right...
Understanding the Canadian prime minister’s war against our democratic institutions, freedoms and legitimate dissent Editor’s Note: In June 1997, Stephen Harper addressed a Montreal meeting of the...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: About Stephen Harper’s ambassadorial timeshare: maybe he...
Canadian and British Joint-Embassy diplomats work out their timeshare arrangements. Below: The young Stephen Harper on the day he missed his history lecture after lingering too long over Atlas...
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Eclectic Lip: Newsflash: Canadian PM’s American Idol supports Stephane...
Note: for non-Canadian readers (or, indeed for Canadian readers who don’t follow politics) Stephane Dion was the milquetoast who led the Liberal Party of Canada to its then-worst-ever federal election...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Polishing a … tarnished reputation: the ‘National Newspaper’...
Your blogger with Rev. Bill Phipps, former United Church of Canada moderator and, in 2002, the NDP’s challenger to Stephen Harper. Below: Harper doubters Andrew Coyne and Tim Harper. “The subject who...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Alberta’s 13 most under-reported political news stories of 2013
Another aircraft takes off from Fort McMurray International Aerodrome loaded with CO2 captured from Alberta’s Athabasca bitumen sands. The gas will be stored in the basements of Russian buildings as...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Canada’s anti-union lobby is at the heart of the deceptive...
Canadians need not apply? Actual Canadian store displays may not appear exactly as illustrated. But the intent of the AstroTurf TFW lobby is to bust unions and weaken the bargaining power of Canadian...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Fate of Canadian Wheat Board a disturbing harbinger for...
PHOTOS: Tractors in the streets of Ottawa on Tuesday, their drivers protesting the Harper Conservatives’ barely concealed plans to destroy the supply-management agricultural sector. (Grabbed from...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Canadian market-fundamentalist right looks to ‘Super PACs’...
PHOTOS: ‘Super PACs’ have access to corporate vaults, and very little control or oversight of what they do with the money they’re given. Below: Alberta Prosperity Fund Director Barry McNamar, APF...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Young Ben Harper gets a well-heeled start in politics,...
Give Ben Harper’s old man his due: he got his son a better first job in Alberta than the elder Mr. Harper’s pop got him. Readers with functioning short-term memories will recall that not so long ago...
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