Posts Tagged: Canadian Politics 2006
From The Archives - The Next Wayne And Shuster
Posted by on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 in - leave a comment
Should you care to dip into the past, I moved the content of the soon to die blog Shadow Cabinet over to the articles section last night. You can now read the posts here. I won't name names but it was an attempt to create a political humour group blog around the last election. It joins the more …
Jackass
Posted by on Saturday, December 30, 2006 in - 1 comment
Leadership. • “"The jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control," Harper wrote in a 2001 letter to raise funds for Paul Bryan of B.C. who was fined for posting election results on the Internet. "This is not the first attack on freedom by Elections Canada. Its heavy-handed chief, Jean-Pierre …
The Final Bullet Point Chat For 2006
Posted by on Friday, December 29, 2006 in - 80 comments
It's here. The last Friday of 2006. Like most, I hate New Year's Eve due to one or two nights of the bad party. Now I plan nothing and always get my way. Once many years ago - for reasons I can't get into and I can't really recall - I ate about five servings of fried clams and shot plastic dart …
Postal Union Foistery Upon Ontarianada
Posted by on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 in - 1 comment
Seems like one day cannot go by without us getting mixed signals about the Postal Unionists approach to Canada as a nation. Whereas it seems like only yesterday that it was let my people be when Lower Canada or Westbertia is in question, today it seems that inter-meddling with the affairs of a …
Steve Harper, Cub Reporter
Posted by on Saturday, December 23, 2006 in - 5 comments
I was confused a little when I looked at the Toronto Star this morning and not just by the recent change in web layout. I was clicking on this story about hockey and about Stephen Harper when it dawned on me that it was a story about hockey by Stephen Harper, the leader of the land. We are told in …
Fill A Form, Get A Vote
Posted by on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 in - 7 comments
[Ed.: I now have to unhide the post held in reserve.] • This is inspiring: • “Former Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney recently warned that the Tories must not cede leadership of the environment file to rivals on the political battlefield, and yesterday Mr. Harper …
Your Nation Of Ontarianada Icons
Posted by on Monday, December 18, 2006 in - leave a comment
So as we are implicitly move to the creation of the national myth of the state of Ontarianada within the Postal Union of Canada, it is important to get onto the iconographic bandwagon and here is one of my favorites. A grand old flag located on a great public service, the Highway 33 ferry from …
Hail The Market Interventionists!
Posted by on Thursday, December 14, 2006 in - 6 comments
I guess socialism is a-ok when it is rural socialism: • “The Conservative government is ordering Canada Post to protect rural mail delivery and maintain a fund that subsidizes postage for Canadian magazines. Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon announced Wednesday that he has directed the Crown …
Hard Policy
Posted by on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 in - 4 comments
It is good to speak up if a matter is truly misguided. It is not good to speak up if it needs all our support. So either the Bloc is doing a very difficult, good and brave thing or a very easy, foolish and bad thing. • Oddly, days ago people were convinced they would not try to force any issue …
