Category Archives: Politics

Not much of a victory

The B.C. NDP face plant was so bad they’ll be getting sympathy cards from the Toronto Maple Leafs. Almost the only consolation is they fell on the pollsters and pundits confident they’d win. So what went wrong?
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Not ‘honourable’ at all

If someone in the PMO paid off a big chunk of my mortgage, how much would you trust my coverage of politics? Now, what if they did it for a legislator? It’s wrong, totally wrong. And dangerous to our Constitution.
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Looking back to the future

Now the opposition are having fits over the Harper administration …   Not really necessary to complete that sentence, is it? But I’m thinking about them being shocked and appalled at Tory MPs wondering how history is taught in Canada.
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B.C. a rebel at heart

Despite its laid-back, progressive reputation as the environmentalist ‘left coast’, full of hippies and unionists and aboriginal activists and public servants, British Columbia is Tory territory federally. And not Red Tory either. Just one more way the province is different, … Continue reading

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What I hate is the fakery

You know what I hate about politics? OK, that could be a well with no bottom. But a bucket borrowed from the late Daniel Boorstin just helped me haul up an especially slimy lump from way down deep. Specifically, Raymond … Continue reading

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