In the last federal election the incumbent, Borys Wrzesnewskyj (Liberal) lost to Conservative challenger Ted Opitz by 26 votes. A judge today declared that election invalid.

If this case can be summarized, in a single observation, it would be that it cannot be enough to accept that individuals who voted were qualified to do so by registration, in the absence of registration certificates, in the absence of the poll books recording anyone who registered by vouching and in the absence of [...]

Well kids, here is another example of a left wing nut blowing things out of all proportion just to make a point. Yes, there are some environmental concerns with using ‘tar sands’ oil, but it hardly means the end of the world, folks. A guy with a job as a NASA scientist should know better [...]

Not that I really expected anything better, but I was nonetheless floored by today’s editorial in the Globe and Mail on the anniversary of Harper’s majority election (‘Harper government has had a good first year’).
Given the growing evidence of widespr…

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 [...]

Canadians spend an average of 32 days going to and from work every year. Eighty-five per cent of all employees are unhappy with their commutes – that’s a lot of people.
Being stuck in traffic or waiting for overcrowded buses is daily routine for millio…

Ottawa – The Council of Canadians has released a new research study that shows that tens of thousands of Canadians received fraudulent telephone calls during the May 2011 federal election, these calls were targeted at non-Conservative voters and they w…

Introduced under another signature defensive title, the Conservatives’ Bill C-31: “Protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act”, combines exclusionary refugee measures from Bill C-4 (“Protecting Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada’s Im…

When I heard that ForestEthics, a group targeted in a Prime Minister’s Office memorandum as an “adversary” of the PMO agenda, had decided to split its activities so as to make advocacy a separate arm, I thought “how br…

650 job losses, scaled back international service, ads on Radio 2 among measures to cope with federal budget cut.

News from one of the casualties of this year’s federal budget: there’s now a plan for implementing cuts at the CBC. Announced today, that plan includes 650 job cuts, office space contraction, cancellation of a planned Halifax expansion, a bid for commercials on Radio 2, shutting Radio-Canada International outposts in Brazil and Moscow, and a [...]

At a dinner-party a while ago, I drew some sharp disagreement by commenting that one-member-one-vote is a crappy way to select a party leader. While it has the outward form of more intense democracy, it sterilizes the democratic process.
Selecting a…

Dear Readers; Just a few short days ago your much maligned reporter suggested that the Robocall scandal was a nefarious plot by the Liberals to discredit the Tories, since they didn’t have much else to do….. and didn’t have much else to do it with! Well, rather than gloat, or say “I told you so,” [...]

Among other things, it was a great piece of timing by Quebec’s students. Yesterday, on the eve of the convention where a new leader of Canada’s Official Opposition will be selected, they poured into the streets of Montreal in huge number…

Scott will serve as MP in the seat held by Jack Layton until his death last year.

As expected by most observers, NDP candidate Craig Scott has won the riding of Toronto-Danforth in a by-election held today. Scott will succeed the late Jack Layton, who served as MP for the riding from 2004–2011. With 110 out of 196 polls reporting so far, Scott has garnered 59 per cent of the vote. Liberal [...]

The Toronto-Danforth by-election to replace Jack Layton happens on March 19. Here, Torontoist aims to tell you who’s running, and why. If the NDP, the Liberals, or the Tories win the by-election in Toronto-Danforth, Parliament will get another back bencher and the balance of power won’t shift one iota. But if the Greens win, they’ll [...]

A government with no moral authority, a democracy in the balance, and a brewing struggle between the state and its people: Canada in 2012.

Two summers ago, a lot of things we said about this government—then a minority—centered around its perceived slide towards authoritarianism. By July 2010, the Harper Conservatives had suspended parliament twice, both times out of naked self-interest, suggesting that the canary in the coal mine of Canada’s democracy was clinging with one claw to life. This [...]

Canada-wide rallies against election fraud
Fwd: RoboGate: Tell Harper we have no more confidence in his government!
It is very important that as many people as possible come out, in order to show the media how important it is that our politicians respe…

The Toronto-Danforth by-election to replace Jack Layton happens on March 19. Here, Torontoist aims to tell you who’s running, and why. When the Saturday dim sum crowd at Pearl Court restaurant in East Chinatown sat down for lunch, they probably didn’t expect Liberal leader Bob Rae to interrupt their meal. But he did. Rae was [...]

Anthony Munk, a top executive at Barrick’s Gold and Gerry Schwartz, current CEO of Onex Corporation, have recently made donations to NDP leadership candidate Thomas Mulcair. Mulcair is also well-known as a supporter of the Israeli government. Derrick O…