Posts Tagged: Canadian Politics 2007
Election Watch 2007: The Bus Has Been Rented
Posted by on Thursday, February 15, 2007 in - 8 comments
They've even rented the bus according to The Globe. Maybe more than one bus. Wow. A fleet of bus and bus-like objects spreading over the land again to coax 2% to 5% of us to shift our vote. Mine is very shifty. What are the issues? • Is Harper really that good of a leader or do we live in a time …
What Albertans Say...
Posted by on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 in - 48 comments
...or at least the Edmonton Sun: • “If all this were simply continuing the Liberal tradition of troughing for the party faithful, the worst that could be said of the Conservatives is they're breaking their election promise to "do government better" than the Grits. • But in media interviews …
Lecturing Dictators Good
Posted by on Saturday, February 10, 2007 in - 3 comments
In the '80s I had no problem supporting the position the then Conservative leaders Mulroney and Clark took in lecturing and pushing aggressively for change in places like South Korea and South Africa. It is nice then, even if with his wobbly understanding of constitutionality at home, to see Mr …
"It's A Constitutional Thing"
Posted by on Friday, February 9, 2007 in - 14 comments
That is what we were told before - all these rules and stuff are just some constitutional thing or another. Now we learn this: • “"They can’t (ignore it)," Rodriguez said. "It’s almost launching a coup d’état — to say: 'I don’t care what the Commons says; I don’t care what the Senate says; I …
Election 2007 Watch: What Sport!
Posted by on Thursday, February 8, 2007 in - 16 comments
The Globe is all a flutter this morning that we may be days or weeks away from an early Federal election call. Seeing as I love elections of any sort this would be a great thing. Sure we would only have another minority government of some kind but apparently that is all Canadians are still …
First Friday of February Chat
Posted by on Friday, February 2, 2007 in - 39 comments
Another gentle dawn. Another month. • Friday this week finds us in a full fledged debate on who is most green. I have no idea why as I have resigned myself to ecological disaster a few short centuries after I am gone, sometime after the Venusians get us all and align themselves with our cats …
Friday Bullets For Shane
Posted by on Friday, January 26, 2007 in - 13 comments
When I was seven, I had to go to the hospital in North Sydney. I had something but the doctors couldn't figure out for a week they poked around me, one day taking so many blood tests that they ended up having to hold me down. They ended up figuring it out and I was out in about ten days. Andrew …
Becoming A Toddler
Posted by on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 in - 24 comments
I went to high school with a noted volcanologist and then I went to undergrad with political scientist Heather MacIvor, a regular Toronto media quote and often quite a good one - like this: • “With a full year of Conservative rule behind them, Canadians now want to see the Tories start taking …
Friday The Bulletteenth
Posted by on Friday, January 19, 2007 in - 13 comments
Friday is the new Saturday in the work world. Remembering working Saturdays in the years of schlepverk, retail wages funding weekends reminds me of dressdowns and finishing the afternoon ending with the Beat Authority: • Make a flake. Go ahead. You know you want to. Post them on the fridge in …
Is It Us?
Posted by on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 in - leave a comment
Even though the new poll from the Strategic Counsel fails to mention the relevant consideration, what the Rest of Canada - Alberta (ROC-A) thinks, this poll is bad news for a bunch of people, including...err...Canadians. Right now, the ROC is this: • “Conservative: 36% • Liberal: 38% • NDP …
