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Election 102: Voter Due Diligence
Stephen Garvey, Leader of Democratic Advancement Party of Canada (DAPC) The Canadian electorate has a vital role in our democracy in ensuring that Canadians who best represent their constituencies and country get elected. A case can be made that the
In Your Face: Rules, Conventions and Cultural Sensitivity in the Niqab Debate
By H. Grant Timms I try, up the level of my admittedly low tolerance, to keep an eye on the comments sections of some of the news and political sites on the Internet. Recently, the case of Mrs. Zinera Ishaq
Tory MP compares Stephen Harper passing Bill C-51 to work of Jesus spawning #CPCJesus
By Mary Simpson “Our Leader, who art in Ottawa, Harper be thy name.” Twitter is on a roll with #CPCJesus hashtag after Conservative MP for Vancouver South Wai Young told the congregation at Harvest City Church that the Harper government was
Employer found guilty of sexually abusing TFWs not blacklisted by Ottawa
The federal government has failed to blacklist an Ontario business fined $200,000 by the province’s Human Rights Tribunal for subjecting female temporary foreign workers to sex abuse and violence under the threat of deportation and whose owner pleaded guilty for
Poilievre slammed for yet another “misleading” tweet promising Canadians “$1,000 in a single day”
By Mary Simpson Jobs minister Pierre Poilievre is facing a chorus of derision for promising Canadian families “$1,000 in a single day” under the Harper Government’s Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB), coming in the heels of the Tory minister’s misleading
Canada lost 400,000 manufacturing jobs and Tories pretend there’s no problem
By Nathan Cullen, NDP MP for Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC More than 1.3 million Canadians are out of work today. The government has added more than $150 billion in debt to the national debt. That is more than $4,000 for every
Poilievre under fire for tweeting misleading job numbers citing satirical twitter account
By Mary Simpson Jobs minister Pierre Poilievre has come in for heavy criticism and ridicule for tweeting that Canada has gained 65,000 full time jobs in June citing a satirical twitter account while remaining silent on the net job loss
Neoliberalism and Red Toryism: a Further Reflection on Political Philosophy and Branding
By H. Grant Timms Some might point out, in response to my previous column, that, well, times change and so it really does not matter what parties call themselves. Today’s conservatives, liberals and democratic socialists are not bound by the
What’s Inside the Conservatives’ Box
By H. Grant Timms With a Conservative party ad running over and over (ad nauseum) throughout the NHL playoffs (and since), I could not help but think about political marketing, packaging and image making. The ‘nice hair’ anti-Trudeau ad is
Depart of Justice on trial today for not vetting bills for constitutionality
By Christopher Pearson Edgar Schmidt, a former special advisor and general counsel to the Department of Justice, will appear in Federal Court in Ottawa this morning to present his claim against the government demanding that the Minister and Deputy Minister
