Democracy Under Fire: Truth in Advertising.
As Susan Delacourt of the Star said this week if you are sick of political advertising now wait until next year and she goes on to highlight a recent blog post by former Conservative MP Brent...
View ArticleDemocracy Under Fire: In Government We Trust?
As I review the actions of the Harper Regime since coming to power for my Harper History Series, an undertaking that one must take in very small bites if one is to retain one composure and sanity, I...
View ArticleDemocracy Under Fire: Careful what you vote for….
As with all of the Conservative Regimes legislation one must CAREFULLY read each word…… …….this House continues to support the Government?s decision to contribute Canadian military assets to the fight...
View ArticleDemocracy Under Fire: Balanced-Budget Law, fiscal or political?
With Canadians still waiting to see whats in the much delayed budget Finance Minister Joe Oliver has just announced plans for a balanced-budget law (as promised by the Conservatives in the 2013 throne...
View ArticleDemocracy Under Fire: Shorter Federal Budget
We intend to spend more than we bring in during the next year, much of it buying votes from higher earning taxpayers, but because we sold off our GM shares and took $2 billion out of reserves we HOPE...
View ArticleDemocracy Under Fire: More Public Money on False Ads
As the Conservative Regime move forward with their new branding efforts in an attempt to persuade the public that they are the greatest thing since the 1936 regime in Germany we learn that “the...
View ArticleDemocracy Under Fire: Buying Your Vote
Rumours circulating that Harper will extend the official campaign period by calling the election early may well have some merit given that his “Fair” Election Act specifically allows more spending on...
View ArticleDemocracy Under Fire: Gob-smacking!
“It was possibly the most gob-smacking election launch in modern Canadian history.” So says much respected parliamentary reporter Susanna Kelley “The shockers began almost immediately after Stephen...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Deconstructing political discourse in Alberta: Doublethink...
PHOTOS: Parson Manning spreads the Gospel of Market Fundamentalism in his days as leader of the Reform Party of Alberta. The actual neoliberal preacher-men of Confederation may not appear exactly as...
View ArticleWe Pivot: Trudeau: the Walking, Contradicting, Double Speaking, Self-Oxymoron
I just can’t even… As we pivot to a new world of passionately demanding integrity from politicians, we should demand non-contradictory talk. Right? We are being feasted with Orwell in BC and the USA,...
View ArticleDemocracy Under Fire: Falsehood Flies, especialy on Twitter
Falsehoods almost always beat out the truth on Twitter, penetrating further, faster, and deeper into the social network than accurate information. So says Soroush Vosoughi,
View ArticleDemocracy Under Fire: I’m Tired……
I’m tired of the impossible promises that Doug Fraud keeps spouting, many issued before his newly elected MPs (blindly Con supporters?) had a chance to
View ArticleDemocracy Under Fire: About That Gravy Train…
Bob Reynolds was named as a new chair of the negotiating team, as the Ford government looks to smooth relations between the government and Ontario
View ArticleDemocracy Under Fire: Amalgamation raises it ugly head again?
‘Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark sent a correspondence to Association of Municipalities Ontario members communicating the province is undergoing a regional review to
View ArticleDemocracy Under Fire: Orwellian Musings
As we end the year that could perhaps be called ‘annus horribilis’ to use the Queens description of 1992 I find it hard to be
View ArticleDemocracy Under Fire: Ontario’s Downward Spiral
A not so slow downward spiral from our hard won support services here in Ontario is happening under the Ford regime, almost daily we see reports of this or that being cut or ‘reviewed’ (Ford speak for...
View ArticleDemocracy Under Fire: I beg to disagree..
Premier Doug Ford says mainstream journalists have become irrelevant because social media allows him to speak directly to Ontarians. No Mr Fraud, we now need the MSM more than ever with our so called...
View ArticleDemocracy Under Fire: Lies & Spin (repost)
“In a political landscape where lies and spin is the norm we must thank and support those individuals who do not fall prey to this insidious trend, and condemn and publicly identify those who do.” The...
View ArticleDemocracy Under Fire: Comparing Dictators….
There are those progressives who have made a point of not comparing the Trump Regime with that of Hitler in the early 30s, I make no such distinction for I see many similarities, that Trump’s focus in...
View ArticleDemocracy Under Fire: Advanced Polls are open…..
I will be driving the few miles to the polling location shortly to waste my time voting for a candidate who will not be elected, its more of a protest vote against the ‘party’ of the fellow who will...
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