Category: Minority Reports: Politics and power in Canada

Goodbye cruel world

  • February 5, 2009

This is the last post in my series Minority Reports: Politics and power in Canada, written for TheThunderbird.ca. As such, I thought it would be a good idea[…]

Into the void

  • February 2, 2009

Hey Harper, when your former boss said “the west wants in,” I think he was talking about the prairie populists, not the west coast hippies. The Harper government’s[…]

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Democracy: who's stupid idea was this anyway?

  • January 29, 2009

I was very pleased about the outcome of the last federal election. The Conservatives increased their seat count and it appeared as though none of the opposition parties[…]

Sober second thought

  • January 23, 2009

At the end of December, Prime Minister Stephen Harper filled 18 vacant seats in the Senate. This move was widely criticized because Harper had said the seats would[…]

Who wants your money now?

  • January 18, 2009

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty are in the unenviable position of trying to craft a budget that will make everyone happy, or at least[…]

Can't we all just get along?

  • January 16, 2009

Canadians may be rightly confused about where their federal political parties sit on the ideological spectrum these days. Dion tried to move the Liberal party to the left.[…]

Is the coalition dead?

  • January 13, 2009

At the end of November 2008, Canada’s political system was thrown into disarray when the Liberals and NDP threatened to topple the minority Conservative government with a coalition[…]