The root of good, democratic government is the idea that the public are best served by having input into decisions that affect them. In a diverse, pluralistic society like Canada, with so many different regions, cultures, and industries, it’s even mo…

Brian Mulroney’s success in leading the Progressive Conservative Party to a second majority victory in the general election of 1988 was the last hurrah of the old Conservative Party, the party whose lineage extended back to the great days of the Libera…

On election night in January 2006, Jack Layton declared that Canadians had “voted out of hope for change” and expressed the conviction that the NDP caucus, 29 MPs as compared with 19 in 2004, would help place working people and seniors “at the front of…

I am a strong believer in the Green Party. It plays an essential role. Environmentalists cannot afford to patiently wait around for traditional parties to see the light and pass the necessary laws to avert catastrophe. That being said, Canadians have b…

The Conservative government is in trouble for understating the cost of the F-35 program by 10 billion by only giving out the incremental cost instead of to total cost. Despite years of controversy, it seems they never bothered to point out there was a …

Hello Allan, I would like to submit the following piece for publication in Blogs Canada.  It’s around 770 word discounting title and signature.  Please note, I used Canadian English spellings, not US English. Chris Stephens. Fraud in Ottawa. In regards to Canada’s parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page saying that it appears the Conservative government kept [...]

According to the latest Nanos Survey, Party personality – Conservative Party: Let’s assume for a…

Dear Readers; This morning’s news has got me so confused that I am actually dizzy. Somehow I feel just like I did that morning so many years ago when I found out that the NDP had won the election here in Ontario. Sick! ———————————————- NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair, left, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper are [...]

Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver — yes, the one who labelled environmentalists foreign-backed radicals — announced a major overhaul today in how environmental assessments will be conducted in Canada. Not surprisingly, the government i…

Conservatives mocking Liberal Boutique would like to remind you that the Stephen Harper bobble-head doll is $19.99 at their online store. – Syndicated from http://progressiveright.blogspot.com/

This latest article by Andrew Coyne on the F-35 fiasco gave me chills, it’s a must read for anyone who still believes in honest, representative government. See this excellent article by Brian Stewart for more background on the growing secrecy in…

A common response from many pundits on the recent Conservative budget seems to be: sensible, dull, uncontroversial. David Frum recently published his analysis and went a bit further asking whether or not this budget definitively proves that Canada i…

By David Frum: Under Stephen Harper, Canada can fairly claim to be the best-governed country among advanced democracies in the world. Thursday’s federal budget locks up Canada’s lead. Right now, the major economies share a common economic problem: With the world slowly and fitfully emerging from the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, they must [...]

Dear Readers: You may have heard from the mainstream media that Justin Trudeau won the boxing match against Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau in their charity boxing match in Ottawa Saturday night, but don’t believe everything ya hear. According to the Perspective Research Department Brazeau gave Trudeau a standing knockout in the third round and the [...]

Why does the Conservative Party’s classlessness never really surprise me? On Saturday, before Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a chance to congratulate the new leader of the Official Opposition, the Conservative party had already released a stat…

Quite possibly, the worst Photoshop job ever with the worst grammar ever. (Know Your Meme, Ancient Aliens) – Syndicated from http://progressiveright.blogspot.com/

First there were 31,000 (THOUSAND)  complaints of Conservative wrong-doing during the election. Then it wasn’t only the Conservatives. Then it might not have been 31,000. NOW! It’s 700, and they are all over the map. SOON, it might be a couple of hundred, or maybe 50, or twenty. Listen folks, in case ya missed it, [...]

TL;DW – Received intel that Toews appointed a judge while sleeping with her & Harper quietly axed him as Justice Minister as a result.by “Anonymous”As originally posted on: Anonymous (AnonsOfCanada) on TwitterMarch 2, 2012

I’ve had some recent experience with the legal system. I and some other long-term tenants fought our gentrifying landscum over our eviction. (Someday I’ll tell the whole tale.) We lost at the kangaroo court known as the Landscum and Tenant …

I’ve had some recent experience with the legal system. I and some other long-term tenants fought our gentrifying landscum over our eviction. (Someday I’ll tell the whole tale.) We lost at the kangaroo court known as the Landscum and Tenant Board. We ap…