Harper, Kenney, Day – not just turning back the clock.
23 July, 2010 – We heard yesterday about the review being undertaken by the Harper government into Employment Equity. A lot is being made of the ‘shock” and “concern’ felt by Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration, and Multiculturalism, after reading the account by Sara Landriault, who sought a job in the public sector but [...]
Sedatives for the Christian right
This just in from CNN: “Former House speaker and potential presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has confessed, telling conservative Christian leader James Dobson that he was cheating on his wife at around the same time the House was impeaching President Bill Clinton over his White House affair with Monica Lewinsky. But Gingrich said that didn’t make [...]
Clown parachutes
So Bob Rae is being parachuted into Toronto Centre (doesn’t he live in the Parkdale area?) and Martha Hall Findlay is being dropped on the good folks in Willowdale. How very nice nice of the ‘naturally governing party” to practice such AWESOME democracy. Make no mistake, Bob Rae WILL win the riding unless the NDP [...]
More on the clowns
So the race is over with Stéphane Dion winning the prized position of Head Clown. With the few months he has had, Dion has done absolutely nothing to increase the profile of the federal Liberals. This is quite fine with me. I want another minority government with either the Tories or Libs and the NDP [...]
Liberal leadership race
How arduous the race? Well, it’s about as interesting as watching Jean Chrétien’s snot dry. Generally speaking, the media are determined to cover the race, simply because it a political party’s leadership race. That’s not the part which bothers me. The botheration oozes from the depth and breath of the coverage. The Tories and the [...]
