somecanuckchick dot com: The Robocon Scandal that was and wasn’t…
REPEAT AFTER ME: An issue-based call is not a voter suppression call. An issue-based call, setting out where [Conservative candidate Marty Burke] stood on the issue — of Abortion — is not remotely the...
View Articlesomecanuckchick dot com: Is the gun smoking yet?
An investigation by CBC News has turned up voters all over Canada who say the reason they got robocalls sending them to fictitious polling stations was that they had revealed they would not vote...
View Articlesomecanuckchick dot com: The Robocon Scandal is more widespread than...
I maintain that if even one voter in these ridings was intimidated/misdirected/misinformed by these robocalls — that’s one too many! These robocalls are grounds “for a f*cking huge investigation”! The...
View Articlesomecanuckchick dot com: There is a pattern here, Canada!
Deny, deny, deny, deny, deny! Drag through the courts — on the Canadian taxpayers’ dime — for 5.5 years! And then… The Conservative Party of Canada admitted to illegal campaign advertising tactics. The...
View Articlesomecanuckchick dot com: Demand a Royal Commission, Canada!
FACT: Only the Harper government can call for a judicial inquiry into the Robocalls Scandal… and that ain’t gonna happen, Canada! Would you like a Royal Commission to investigate the Robocalls Scandal?...
View Articlesomecanuckchick dot com: Happy Contempt of Parliament Day!
On March 25, 2011, the House of Commons passed a motion of non-confidence by a vote of 156 to 145. And with that, Stephen Harper and his Conservative Cabinet were found to be in contempt of parliament...
View Articlesomecanuckchick dot com: Vive la différence!
The Harper government says, “Thomas Mulcair is an opportunist whose tax agenda, blind ambition and divisive personality would put Canadian families and their jobs at risk.” Really? I say, “Stephen...
View Articlesomecanuckchick dot com: Canadians are penniless!
Canadians are penniless. Love the penny. Hate the penny. Regardless of your feelings on the penny… sure, the penny’s days were numbered, but now that the penny is on its way out, I have a few questions...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: How Long Before This Lynch Mob Mentality Comes...
As someone who is a regular visitor to Cuba and has seen both the good and bad of its society through friends that we visit there, I know that it has very real problems, but also very real benefits,...
View ArticlePolitics and Entertainment: Are Canadians resigned to the current repressive...
“Fascism creeps; and one of its hallmarks is that by the time you realize you’re in it, it’s too late to do anything about it.” We see where things are going, but it’s like watching a train wreck —...
View ArticlePolitics and Entertainment: a tiny glimpse into the ways our government...
Some Key Areas Where Neoliberal Policy Undermines both the Industrial Economy and Canadian Democracy Under the Harper Regime, the investor class is constantly being protected at the expense of the...
View ArticlePolitics and Entertainment: Repressive Tactics Smack of History
Of course the so-called budget bill, stuffed to the gills with non-budgetary items as such, has multiple political purposes, but one of them is clearly to limit dissenting voices within parliament...
View Articlesomecanuckchick dot com: It’s the tar sands, stupid!
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; Act II, Scene ii, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare The Athabasca tar sands have always been, are now, and will...
View ArticlePolitics and Entertainment: Over 120 Lawyers Ask for Proposed Environmental...
You would think that such a significant resistance from the law community might have an effect on the Regime’s thinking, but don’t count on it. The goal is the full implementation of a neoliberal...
View ArticlePolitics and Entertainment: PIPSC, Fat Cats, and Disturbing Dreams
I had the pleasure of attending the PIPSC Fat Cats game on Sunday – an exciting affair that the FCs won in the ninth with a sensational walk off steal at home plate by LaDale Hayes, who also made an...
View Articlesomecanuckchick dot com: Fixed Election Date #FAIL
WTF does not even begin to convey my complete and utter shock and disgust… Today, in the House of Commons, during Question Period, the interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada asked the Prime...
View Articlesomecanuckchick dot com: Don’t worry about what the Harper government is ^not...
Tony Clement, the President of Treasury Board, would like Canadians to believe that Kevin Page, the Parliamentary Budget Officer, is operating outside his mandate when he requests details on how $5.2B...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: The Not-So-Hidden-Hand of Harper
Although I believe unreservedly in the vital role that unions play in both protecting and promoting workers' rights, I make no apologies for the times that I have been critical of them. Cronyism,...
View ArticlePolitics and Entertainment: Harper Regime is Now Disqualified
'Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said that Canadian threats of reprisals and Mr. Baird’s decision to personally campaign against the Palestinian resolution at the UN have ruled Ottawa out of...
View ArticlePolitics and Entertainment: Harper Regime Has Lost All Credibility on Foreign...
“…Israel’s announcement on the settlements was widely criticized by Canada’s European allies, and even the United States, which voted with Canada and Israel against the motion to grant non-voting...
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