Yet another example of shameless brutality coming from the City of Montreal Police Service (SPVM). The video was apparently shot Sunday at the 27th consecutive nightly protest against the Quebec Liberal government’s proposed tuition hikes. At ab…

While sitting on an outdoor patio in downtown Montreal Saturday night as the 26th consecutive protest against the Quebec Liberal government’s proposed tuition hikes marched by, bar patrons were treated to pepper spray from the City of Montréal …

This happened on May 19, 2012, at the 26th consecutive protest in Montreal against the Quebec Liberal government’s proposed tuition hikes. With the passing of Bill 78 Friday, Premier Jean Charest suspended the democratic rights of all Quebecers,…

The latest Ipsos poll paints a rather dreary picture of Liberal fortunes, with what was once the natural governing party languishing more than 15 points behind both the NDP and the Conservatives. Of course, the NDP are in their post-leadership honeymoo…

The latest Ipsos poll paints a rather dreary picture of Liberal fortunes, with what was once the natural governing party languishing more than 15 points behind both the NDP and the Conservatives.Of course, the NDP are in their post-leadership honeymoon…

Thank you for resigning from your position as Quebec Education Minister and giving up politics Monday. Your decision makes the Quebec government just a little bit less corrupt, and, perhaps, just a little more efficient. And to Jean Charest, I sa…

#cpc #ndp #tm4pm #cdnpoli Now that I have your attention.. The last two leaders of the Liberal Party of Canada were eviscerated by the Conservative Party attack machine as a way to define their new leader before the Liberals got a chance to define thei…

Since 1984, when Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives won a large majority of federal ridings in Quebec, the federal Liberal Party has failed to win a majority of seats in Quebec in any subsequent election, although they came close in 2000. Contr…

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 sincerely hope this is true: At least a half dozen Liberal leadership candidates could be gearing up their campaigns as soon as this summer. Liberal party president Mike Crawley says he knows of about “six or seven” people who are thinking of ent…

Dean MacDonald, the undeclared leader of the provincial Liberal Party spoke to a crowd in Port de Grave district on Saturday night.  There’s an account of his speech in the Telegram’s Monday edition. Dean crapped on the provincial Conservativ…

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

Today Parliament will debate a “private members” motion from Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth that would effectively re-open the abortion debatein Canada, and put the reproductive rights of women at risk. In the last 24 hours I’ve received two…

Today Parliament will debate a “private members” motion from
Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth that would effectively re-open the abortion debate in Canada,
and put the reproductive rights of women at risk.

In the last 24 hours I’ve received…

Citation: R. v. Morgentaler, [1988] 1 S.C.R. 30 Date: January 28, 1988 State interference with bodily integrity and serious state-imposed psychological stress, at least in the criminal law context, constitutes a breach of security of the person. &#823…

Did I read that right? Did Stephane Dion, former head of the Liberal Party of Canada, just come out in favour of proportional representation? Better late than never! Well, that’s not entirely fair. Dion has shown a willingness to consider electo…

Stéphane Dion has written an article proposing a new voting system for Canadian federal elections which he calls P3 (Proportional-Preferential-Personalized Vote).  Rather than make any comments on his proposal immediately I’ll just summarize…

I was born into a politically useless family.When voting day rolled around the only thing certain was that my mother and my father would always vote.  They’d get in the car, drive to the poll and cast their ballots.   They made a point of nev…

I was born into a politically useless family. When voting day rolled around the only thing certain was that my mother and my father would always vote.  They’d get in the car, drive to the poll and cast their ballots.   They made a point…

Since the election of former Quebec
cabinet minister Thomas “Tom” Mulcair as leader of the NDP last month, much
attention has been paid to the political situation in Quebec and the consensus seems to be the
Liberals are screwed in the province.

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