CBC
CBC fights the culture war
What’s this? A CBC story about huge guns, a baby, and Santa? From Scottsdale Arizona? What is the relevance? Oh, those Americans and their guns. “Is it…
Tag: NDP
153 posts tagged "NDP".
New Democratic Party of Canada
Vacated prime real estate in Ottawa!
Paulina Ayala is the NDP Member of Parliament for Honoré-Mercier in Quebec. She was elected on May 2nd in the Orange Crush that saw the NDP take most of the…
New Democratic Party of Canada
Nycole Turmel’s Bloc connections
Nycole Turmel is the newly minted interim leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada. She has stepped in while Jack Layton fights another round with cancer.…
Columns
Postal filibuster was a practice round
First Air Canada then Canada Post. What does the future hold in showdowns of Conservatives versus the union-backed New Democratic Party? I noted a couple of…
Columns
Thoughts on the NDP filibuster
The NDP filibuster over bill C-6 is over and it ended with more of a whimper than a bang. With 102 MPs allowed to speak for 20 minutes (not including about 10…
Canadian Politics
Bad move Christy Clark
Trading a sales tax cut for a corporate tax increase? This is bad tax policy from the Premier of BC. The HST has been a thorny and populist issue. The NDP is…
Elections
The Last week of play. What to watch for.
For spectators of the political Olympics, we’re now in the final sprint, the last leg, indeed the gold medal round of the competition to shape the 41st…
Columns
Game Changer
They’ve been popping organic champagne corks in the NDP war room this week as poll after poll is showing that party ahead of the Liberals in a race for second…
Danielle Smith
Danielle Smith endorses federal Conservative majority government
I heard this morning that Alberta Wildrose Alliance leader Danielle Smith was endorsing Stephen Harper so I wanted to confirm. Confirmed the old-fashioned way……