Heather Leung is the Con candidate in the B.C. riding of Burnaby-North Seymour, and a bit of a mystery woman.One who hasn't granted the media an interview since she was nominated in May.So most people wouldn't have known anything about her, if she hadn't made a terrible mistake.Read more »
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daveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: It’s not quite Wayne’s World and it’s not quite The Mercer Report. It’s The McIver Report.
Photo: UCP MLA Jason Nixon (left) and UCP MLA Ric McIver (right) as the host of The McIver Report. I was surprised to discover this week that Ric McIver, the United Conservative Party MLA from Calgary-Hays and former Calgary Alderman, is the host of a TV show which is recorded
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rick Mercer On The Incredible Drabness of Andrew Scheer
It couldn't have been a more revealing contrast. Andrew Scheer gathered with his Con caucus in Victoria.Plotting 101 ways to destroy Justin Trudeau, in a small sweaty room reeking of boredom.While Trudeau was at the Davos summit, and together with Angela Merkel, was being acclaimed as the most respected leader
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Worth Repeating
I think Rick Mercer speaks for many of us in this ‘rant.’ Recommend this Post
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Bill 24 passes, making it hard for Alberta schools to obstruct gay-straight alliances and illegal to out members to their parents
PHOTOS: Alberta Education Minister David Eggen, whose Bill 24, An Act to Support Gay-Straight Alliances, was passed by the Alberta Legislature yesterday. Below: UCP Leader Jason Kenney, former Alberta Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman, and social conservative activist John Carpay. Bill 24, An Act to Support Gay-Straight Alliances, passed third and
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rick Mercer on Jason Kenney’s Cowardly War on Children
As I'm sure you know, the bloated bigot Jason Kenney is waging war on LGBT children. Again.Claiming that his opposition to Alberta's Bill 24, that is designed to protect gay kids who wish to join a Gay-Straight Alliance, doesn't mean he wants to out them to their parents. Who could hurt them,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why is the CBC Trying to Destroy the Trudeau Government?
I wonder how many Canadians can remember what Stephen Harper was planning to do to the CBC if he had been re-elected.Because although it would have been bloody, the CBC clearly doesn't.For how else can one explain the fact that along with Postmedia, it has been leading the Con media's
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Jason Kenney and the GSA reverse-tip-line brouhaha: Is this conservative turning into the Anita Bryant of Canada?
PHOTOS: Is Jason Kenney turning into Canada’s Anita Bryant? Actual Canadian politicians may not appear exactly as illustrated. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons.) Below: The real Jason Kenney, and singer-songwriters k.d. lang and Boy George. Is Jason Kenney turning into the Anita Bryant of Canada? If you’re of a certain age, you
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rick Mercer on Kellie Leitch’s Bizarre Campaign
For months the ghastly Con leadership candidate Kellie Leitch has been demanding that refugees and immigrants be given her "Canadian Values" test.While never telling us what kind of questions she would ask them. But now Leitch has shared a few of them with supporters of the racist rag The Rebel.And as
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rick Mercer on Kellie Leitch’s Bizarre Campaign
For months the ghastly Con leadership candidate Kellie Leitch has been demanding that refugees and immigrants be given her "Canadian Values" test.While never telling us what kind of questions she would ask them. But now Leitch has shared a few of them with supporters of the racist rag The Rebel.And as
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rick Mercer On The Madness of Trump
As I'm sure you know by now, I believe Donald Trump is dangerously deranged.And any man who can single handedly move the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight is a man who deserves to be urgently removed from office.Before he kills us all. So I'm glad to see that Rick Mercer agrees that
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rick Mercer on Kellie Leitch’s Race Baiting Campaign
With every passing day Kellie Leitch's absurd attempt to be Canada's Donald Trump is looking more desperate and pathetic.She's been getting a lot of free publicity, and doing her best to sound like Trump… But it's not getting her anywhere. Only three members of the Con caucus support her compared to eighteen
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rick Mercer on Donald Trump and Kevin O’Leary
Well as you know Donald Trump is edging ever closer to the Republican nomination.So it is at least theoretically possible that he could be the next President.And since as you also know, Kevin O'Leary is thinking of running for leader of the Harper…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Errol Mendes points out that any commitment to securing human rights in our foreign policy is currently limited by the lack of any systematic attempt to see how those rights are being treated. And Rick Mercer…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rick Mercer and the Refugee Lifeline
As you know, I believe the challenge of settling thousands of Syrian refugees in this country is a gift not a burden.A chance to show that after the darkness of the Harper years, we still remember what it means to be a Canadian.So although the Con medi…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rick Mercer on the Disgraceful Failure of the MSM
I've wrote quite a few posts about the shameless role most of the MSM and their porky bosses played in the election campaign.How they betrayed Canadians.How they even censored Andrew Coyne.How almost all of them endorsed the Cons.So now I think I'll just let Rick Mercer sum up their disgrace…Read more »
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Rick’s Rant: About Those Conservative Newspaper Endorsements
Redoubtable Rick is relentless in his excoriation of both The Globe and Mail and The National Post for their corporate-driven endorsements of the Harper regime during our recent election: Recommend this Post
Continue readingThings Are Good: Rick Mercer Wants Canada to Vote
If you can vote in the Canadian election, you should. Rick Mercer, who has a great reputation of mocking Canadian politicians, has called every Canadian to vote this coming election on Monday October 19th. For too long this country has suffered under climate change deniers and people’s who only care
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rick Mercer and the Small-Time Election Campaign
It's been the longest and ugliest election campaign I have ever seen. A monstrous bigot game that has made us look cheap and ugly, and shamed us in the eyes of the world.And as if that wasn't bad enough, then there is this deeply disturbing question: How can such a big young
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rick Mercer on Stephen Harper’s Great Niqab Distraction
As we know Stephen Harper has tried to make the niqab controversy the centrepiece of his campaign, as instructed by his brutish Aussie flying monkey Lynton Crosby.And while most sane people might find that disgusting.As Rick Mercer points out, for some it is a handy distraction.Read more »
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