Pauline Marois has emerged as the winner of the internal wars that have beset the Parti Quèbeçois. Her leadership went uncontested at the recent PQ National Council meeting. Her principal rival, former Bloc leader, Gilles Duceppe has remo…

Other than Canadian political parties themselves, the Fraser Institute must be Canada’s most intensely political organization.
Notwithstanding its pious mission statement — “to measure, study, and communicate the impact of competitive markets and gove…

Ever since his speech in Switzerland  many have been talking about the real Stephen Harper and his so called ‘hidden agenda’.  Rarely though are things ever black and white, and even more rare in the political realm. 
Talk of reduc…

Ask not what jobs have been lost, ask how many more jobs might leave if the corporate tax rate is raised

The guest list includes a fundamentalist Christian who helped bankroll past Conservative campaigns

Roland Paris considers the Harper government’s rhetoric on Iran.
Yet it is also a…

With all respect to the many readers who have urged me to dedicate this column to rebutting John Baird’s rebuttal to last week’s column, I must decline.read more

I’ll avoid making too much of the Cons’ machinations around the Toronto-Danforth by-election. But it does seem worth noting that the announcement comes in advance of the six-month deadline to call the by-election by roughly the two-week gap…

I’ll avoid making too much of the Cons’ machinations around the Toronto-Danforth by-election.But it does seem worth noting that the announcement comes in advance of the six-month deadline to call the by-election by roughly the two-week gap between the …

One part of the brain can work something out while another part is doing something else, or so it seems.  the regina mom stayed up all night.  When that happens, it’s usually because she’s been engaged in a good read or a good write.  Th…

Stephen Harper, Sept. 15, 2008. “My own belief is if we were going to have some…

While many the US were celebrating seemingly positive job numbers yesterday, for London, Ontario residents such news was caustic, rock salt poured into a gaping wound. WSWS: Caterpillar subsidiary Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) has announced that it is transforming the lockout at its … Continue reading →

Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Mike Ward nicely describes the “Orwellian reverie” being used by the Cons to try to manipulate the public into acceding to the every wish of the oil sector: In what other world could the delivery…

Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Mike Ward nicely describes the “Orwellian reverie” being used by the Cons to try to manipulate the public into acceding to the every wish of the oil sector:In what other world could the delivery of jobs, prof…

Today the HarperCons stepped into the cesspool polluted waters tarsands issue to announce a water monitoring project which will take 3 years and $50 million to fully implement.  the regina mom agrees with Halifax NDP MP Megan Leslie; this is a PR stun…

A statement from the interim NDP leader on a meeting with the Prime Minister….

The Prime Minister talks to Postmedia about OAS, China and Iran.
Postmedia: There are Canadians…

A statement from Brian Topp on today’s Electro-Motive announcement.
Caterpillar’s decision to close its…

A tough, detailed appraisal of the government’s plan to somehow curb Old Age Security…

March 2008. He also toured the Electro-Motive Diesel plant on Oxford Street where he met…