La sauvage primaire pour le choix du candidat républicain à l’élection présidentielle américaine de Novembre 2012, nous en fait voir de toutes les couleurs ! Surtout depuis que Mitt Romney et Newt Gingrich sont devenus les favoris. C’est à qu…

Since the Bloc is no longer a party, it can’t sit in on the committee investigating its alleged improprieties

La politique est un boomerang.Nous venons d’en avoir une nouvelle démonstration avec la révélation du « scandale du Bloc ». Le parti fédéral Bloc Québécois est accusé d’avoir utilisé des portions de son budget parlementaire pour payer l

If you’re like me these days, when you see a story involving the Bloc, you might yawn a little bit and gloss over it. Is it more infighting in the sovereignty movement, things not moving fast enough, yadda yadda. But this one from the weekend could mak…

Thomas Mulcair turned in a virtually faultless performance in Edmonton last night, proving once again that the federal Opposition New Democratic Party is attracting top-quality candidates as it completes its sad duty to replace Jack Layton.
Leastways, …

Your blogger yesterday in a future vanity wall picture with NDP leadership candidate Thomas Mulcair. Thomas Mulcair turned in a virtually faultless performance in Edmonton last night, proving once again that the federal Opposition New Democratic Party …

Il y a quelques jours, lors d’une entrevue à l’émission politique télévisée de la CBC animée par Evan Solomon, Jim Flaherty, ministre canadien des finances, affirma qu’à la prochaine élection générale fédérale « Quebec is up for grab…

Les éditeurs du magazine américain Time ont arrêté leur choix de la « personnalité de l’année 2011 » sur « les protestataires ». Ce choix judicieux montre bien l’importance de l’individu d’aujourd’hui lorsqu’il se regroupe avec s…

Dear Readers; This is why your long suffering author has no patience with left wing nuts who constantly look for more ‘politically correct’ stuff to rant and rave about! (The picture on the left is a bunch of new Quebec prison guards on their way to work!!!!!) ——————————————————————— MONTREAL — Quebec will allow its correctional [...]

Dear Reders; They say a month is an eternity in politics, and by that criteria the past month has not been too kind to the NDP! ———————————————- OTTAWA – A new poll suggests the tide has turned on the NDP’s orange wave in Quebec. The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey indicates the NDP’s support in the [...]

Daniel Paillé’s election as the leader of the Bloc is a relatively good reflection of the kind of dark hole in which the Nationalists find themselves at this moment.
Paillé was one of the (few) golden boys of “Québec Inc” (the loca…

This makes me very happy. Another reason to celebrate the end of electoral welfare.

To understand just how moribund the Bloc Québécois has become, study the results of its leadership race, which concluded on the weekend with the selection of Daniel …

Chantal Hébert had an interesting column yesterday. She raised the possibility of a future Quebec by-election scenario featuring new Bloc leader Daniel Paillé versus Brian “I’m a Quebec kid” Topp. Whoa. Which is why I won’t be holding my breath. Not …

Daniel Paillé, the man Stephen Harper trusted to investigate the Liberal Party, is the new leader of the Bloc Quebecois. However, the media attention has not been on Paillé, but on the anemic total of 14,000 who bothered to vote in the leadership con…

Also, Daniel Paillé  looks like he’s had a few teeth knocked out in waterfront brawls.  And not very sanitary.  Overall a win for Canada? – Syndicated from http://bigcitylib.blogspot.com/

Also, Daniel Paillé  looks like he’s had a few teeth knocked out in waterfront brawls.  And not very sanitary.  Overall a win for Canada?

Former MP and party finance critic Daniel Paille is the new leader of the…

I certainly don’t. This hasn’t had much play even in Quebec.

Bloc Québécois: le nouveau leader du parti sera choisi dimanche

La Presse Canadienne
Montréal
Les militants du Bloc Québécois choisiront leur nouveau chef dimanche, alors que le parti…

Le vote d’hier dans Bonaventure est révélateur, même si le comté est depuis toujours une forteresse du parti libéral. Celui-ci l’a conservé avec un pourcentage de votes qui approche 50% (9% de moins qu’à la dernière élection). De son cô…

When there is a single issue which dominates the politics of a jurisdiction for decades, it is often the case that progress on other issues is inhibited by the myopic focus on the one dominating issue. Such is the case in both Quebec and Israel domina…