If Quebec were a country, its debt-to-GDP ratio would be 5th highest of the OECD countries. Ahead of Iceland, Greece, Italy, and Japan. Source In related news, 122 people were arrested in Quebec tonight as the…
Tom Mulcair has had a busy week. In his first real outing on the national stage on any policy issue of pan-Canadian importance he chose to entangle energy, regions, the manufacturing sector, and the environment. Melange…
Here’s something I didn’t know 24 hours ago. Did you know that it is illegal for anyone in the National Capital Region to use the term “Parliament Hill” to describe a place or business that isn’t that hill on which…
Quebec politics are always interesting, and sometimes detestable. The past few months have proven this again to be true. Quebec students are marching in the streets by the tens of thousands on a regular basis demanding…
News from last week included the opposition finding outrage in an apparent discrepancy of cost estimation of the Canadian mission in Libya by Defence Minister Peter MacKay. In an interview on CBC’s The House with Evan…
According to the latest Nanos Survey, Party personality – Conservative Party: Let’s assume for a moment that each federal political party was a person. What one word would you use to describe the personality of each of…
Just a small observation about recent NDP caucus appointments made by Thomas Mulcair and different reactions to them. What do you make of this? Liberal “interim” leader Bob Rae, I have one deputy leader who now does the…
There’s an election in Canada. And the classic divide is between two parties. One party has been endorsed by the National Post, the other by the Globe and Mail. One party accuses the other of racism, sexism and…
The Alberta election is in its last week and it’s been an angry and desperate one for the PC Party of Alberta. At the outset of the campaign, polls showed that party and their chief rivals on the right — the Wildrose…
APOLOGY on Behalf of Patrick Martin and the NDP to Mr. Matt Meier and RackNine Inc. On February 23, 2012, I appeared before the national media to speak in response to the important issue of “Robocalls” in the 2011…
