Despite our love for politics as a blood sport, there is a human side and human cost to politics. I have seen both, and have experienced both for the better and the worse. Today is the where the worse comes into play. I was lucky to have met Gerald Butts
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Political Potshots: Guest Post By The Girl Who Waited: I Am Not Mad As Hell, I Am Just Tired Of Your Bullshit (Redux)
I am finished. I am done. I try to stay rational, but cannot stay quiet any longer. I know some will try to dismiss me as yet another angry leftist woman – and if so? None of what I write further will matter to you, so hit the back button
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: Beware the Carbon Tax A-Tax!
You have heard the old joke? “Five guys walk into a bar…it was being swung by Catherine McKenna.” “Who knew that the defenders of the environmental status quo would all be so…male and white. Whaaaaaat a shock.” My Daughter, 16. The Carbon Tax. It is an economic principal so simple that my
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Al Siebring For North Cowichan Council
Common Sense for Community AL SIEBRING FOR NORTH COWICHAN COUNCILLORI moved to the Cowichan Valley when I was just 5 years old, and grew up on a dairy farm near Cobble Hill. After graduating from Cow Hi (Class of ’75), I left the Valley, and spent the next 22 years
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Advice for Tom Mulcair and Justin Trudeau: Hammer Stephen Harper on the economy
The neoliberal Harper economy at work: a Toronto street scene, last week. Below: Thomas Mulcair, Justin Trudeau, Stephen Harper and Margaret Thatcher. Here’s some free advice for a couple of would-be Canadian prime ministers who are both in the news these days, the NDP’s Tom Mulcair and the Liberals’ Justin
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Joyce Murray Will Be A Formidable Liberal Leadership Candidate
The cutoff date for candidates to enter the Federal Liberal Leadership race is in mid-November. So far, only 2 candidates are officially in the race (Justin Trudeau and Deborah Coyne.) The media coverage has been almost completely about Trudeau since he announced on October 2nd. The Liberal Party needs a
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Paul Donofrio: NDP Candidate. Rob Ford Supporter. Social Media Cautionary Tale.
Yesterday, I wrote about how the PC candidate in Kitchener-Waterloo, Tracey Weiler, has been running away from the PC leader Tim Hudak. In the riding of Vaughan, the ONDP and their leader Andrea Horwath, the opposite has been the case. Paul Donofrio, the ONDP candidate, has been completely ignored by
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