A Season of Elections
In Canadian politics, next fall shall usher in a Season of Elections. We will see not only the Federal election scheduled for October 19th but also four Provincial elections and a Territorial election between O...
Where Will the 2015 Surplus Go?
Surplus: Canadians born after 2008 may be unfamiliar with the term. It is essentially an inverse debt, an anti-shortage. A surplus in the treasury means that there is more coming in than there is going out. It ...
Plans for Canada’s 150th Celebration: Possibly Partisan
Celebrating a milestone like a country’s 150th birthday can’t be done on the cheap. Nevertheless, people have raised eyebrows over how much our government will spend on remembering the past rather than fixing t...
Parti Quebecois Leadership Race Collapses Amidst Infighting and Scandal
"Miss me yet?"Parti Quebecois
Ever since Pauline Marois brought the separatist Parti Quebecois to an embarrassing failure in the April provincial election, the question of the party’s relevance ha...
Sona Sentence Still to Come
How much time should Michael Sona spend in jail for his involvement in the robocalls scandal that headlined the 2011 federal election? It depends on whom you ask. Sona is guilty of wilfully preventing or endeav...
8 Conundrums from the Canadian Constitution
You might be Canadian. You might know about all that’s happening in the cold, snowy country you live in. But there is a truly Canadian document lurking in print and on the World Wide Web whose ramifications mig...
Patrick Brazeau Is Out of Control! Again!
Canada’s favourite loser boxer is at it again, misbehaving like an uncut husky in doggie heaven. Patrick Brazeau has a trial for sexual assault scheduled for 2015, but he isn’t inclined to wait that long for hi...
Jason Kenney’s Anti-Trudeau Tweets
In George Orwell’s 1984, it was called the Ministry of Truth. In China, it is the Central Propaganda Department. Now it appears Canada has had its very own Ministry of Propaganda, headed by Jason Kenney.
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B.C. Woman Denied Job Due To Religion: Not Being Norse Enough
When you mess with the Viking, you get the horns. Trinity Western University biology graduate Bethany Paquette received several nasty e-mails this week from modern day Norsemen.
Olaf Amundsen, who describes ...
Attack Ads to Get Nasty(er)
Back in May 2014, most of the major broadcasters in Canada (CBC/Radio-Canada, CTV, Rogers, and Shaw) unanimously announced that they would refrain from airing political attack ads that featured material taken f...