Politics

‘Online’ and ‘privacy’ are mutually exclusive

February 19, 2012 Politics

Wherever I look these days, there’s talk about Bill C-30, the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act. This bill, in fact, picks up where a previous Liberal government left off (which makes the Liberals look positively ridiculous now that they’re railing against the bill as if they were perfectly innocent in all this). The bill, [...]

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Tolerant left not so tolerant of voters who shun them

February 19, 2012 Politics

The Conservative government of Stephen Harper scored a major victory this past week: the abolition of the long-gun registry that had been put in place by a previous Liberal government. The registry had always been considered an abomination and a colossal waste of tax dollars. After fighting the registry for almost two decades, it’s understandable, [...]

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Ideology doesn’t matter to Albertans?

February 18, 2012 Politics

A telephone poll claims that Albertans don’t care about ideology. That looks like a “poll” pushing wishful thinking, because no Albertan I know considers the distinction between “right” (i.e., right) and “left” (i.e., wrong – or, adopting the Latin meaning of the word, “sinister”) unimportant. Not everyone may participate in elections anymore, but they certainly [...]

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Justin Trudeau makes dumb blondes look perfectly smart

February 15, 2012 Politics

On some level, it’s the typical behaviour of all left-wingers: when they can’t do as they please, they throw temper tantrums. It’s not uncommon for them to wish death and destruction on everything and everyone, including themselves, if they don’t have the upper hand. Liberal MP Justin Trudeau is no different.

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Activist judges must be reined in

February 15, 2012 Politics

It’s really highly unfortunate that this particular debate should hinge on an unhinged character like Leroy Smickle. When the police burst into his home on an unrelated search warrant, they found Smickle waving a loaded gun as he was recording videos for this Facebook account. A judge, Anne Malloy, felt that the minimum sentence imposed [...]

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Alberta Liberals’ no-tuition plan doesn’t address real problems

February 8, 2012 Politics

The Alberta Liberals have promised something that, at first, looks good, but in the final analysis fails to address the real problems. The Liberals want to abolish post-secondary tuition fees if elected. Students and their parents will probably jump on that particular bandwagon (but then they may be held back by the other promise made [...]

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Albertans faced with tax increases unless they vote for Wildrose Alliance

February 7, 2012 Politics

In the next provincial election, expected in mid-April, Albertans should find it easy to make a decision. There are a bunch of left-wing parties but only one (fiscally) conservative party. It’s a no-brainer, really.

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Boisvenu, speaking his mind truthfully, reaps insult

February 3, 2012 Politics

My mind is boggled, so help me out, folks. Poll after poll confirms that Canadians are turned off by politics. In fact, only 15% still pay attention to political news. Hence, fewer and fewer voters bother to turn out on election day in federal, provincial and municipal elections. One thing most people criticize about politicians [...]

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Next NDP leader … Nathan Cullen?

February 2, 2012 Politics

We’re not that far from the NDP leadership vote anymore, and frontrunners are easier to spot now. Thomas Mulcair, once touted as the one to beat, has seriously underperformed. Not only did he fail to show up for a leadership debate recently, he’s also still a French citizen (by choice). Even the late Jack Layton [...]

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Working to 67 isn’t a big deal

February 1, 2012 Politics

Man, Prime Minister Stephen Harper certainly put his finger into one heck of a hornet’s nest when he announced, from a conference in Switzerland, that his government was pondering some drastic changes to the public pension scheme.

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