The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Dunderfarce 2 #nlpoli
As if the week hasn’t been going badly enough for her, Premier Kathy Dunderdale decided to make it all the worse on Thursday with her scrum about her Twitter account. Here’s what we have learned: (Read...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: How will we get back to the 19th Century without Stephen...
A forlorn Richard Nixon waves goodbye to Washington for the last time from the steps of the presidential helicopter on Aug. 9, 1974. Don’t count on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to do the same thing...
View Articlethe disgruntled democrat: Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer: A Disgruntled...
In reaction to a government bill that would prevent Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer, Marc Mayrand, from speaking publicly about the quality of Canada’s Electoral System, he went on record to state:...
View ArticleThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Responsibility #nlpoli
In the middle of all the screaming as the government unveiled its budget on Thursday, the editor of a regional business magazine asked, apparently in all seriousness, "Biggest question of...
View ArticleCowichan Conversations: RAFE: ‘Responsible Government’ and how it blocks...
Rafe is revealing what some will be surprised to learn. Jaded blogger types and other seasoned politicos have understood the party control aspect for years but somehow it still flies under the radar....
View ArticleAlberta Politics: The era of Notwithstanding Clause restraint is over … get...
The era of Notwithstanding Clause restraint is over. Get used to it. To borrow someone else’s felicitous metaphor, Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was always an unexploded...
View ArticleTHE FIFTH COLUMN: THE FIFTH COLUMN 2018-10-13 19:17:00
On Democracy What a better way to restart The Fifth Column than by a treatise on how to make our democracy actually democratic. Hopefully this will be the first posting in a newly regenerated Fifth...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: ‘Has Trudeau committed treason?’ The answer is no and the...
Donna Kennedy-Glans, by all accounts an intelligent and accomplished Alberta Conservative, recently posted and pinned a Tweet asking, “Has Trudeau committed treason?” If her intention was to grab the...
View ArticleThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: No change in the weather? No change in we. #nlpoli
The problem we have is not a lack of options and opportunities to sort out the government finances ourselves. The problem facing Newfoundland and Labrador is that the leading people of the province,...
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