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Liberals Look to 2006 Strategy After 2008 Disaster?
The Liberals, and their cheerleaders in the Toronto media, simply don’t get it! From a strictly strategic point of view, I’ve seen this time and time before in the business world — a former market leader, trounced by a new and inno...
Sherlock Holmes and the Liberal Disrespect For 11:11
This picture was sent to the media by the local Liberal campaign in the riding of St. Catherines, depicting Conservative MP Rick Dykstra on his BlackBerry at a Remembrance Day event. The Globe & Mail ran with the story, allowing itself to get b...
Of What Meaning, Canadian?
There’s a new guide for new Canadians, Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship. It’s a change from the document that used to be handed out. It’s more demanding, and, arguably, more political. The 62-page ...
Poppies! Poppies! Poppies!
I see fewer people wearing poppies these days. Just an observation. I still wear mine: ...
Are Liberals suffering from a millstone named Quebec?
It’s debatable I think. The main comparison I’d make is that Liberal fortune is so dependent upon the good graces of Quebec and the Conservatives are not. Liberals can’t obtain a majority government without Quebec and that’s m...
Is Obama About To Sell Out US Sovereignty?
A friend forwarded this video onto me today and it’s worth a viewing folks! Some notes that I have… 1)Yes, the US Congress would have to ratify any treaty that US President Obama enters into; historians recall Woodrow Wilson’s messy...
What about Parliamentary Supremacy?
The only reason any Westminster system requires the services of a “supreme court” is to satisfy the condition of Locke’s separation of powers doctrine that there be a “Federative” branch of government to adjudicate dispu...
World Class Athlete on Suicide Watch: A Nation’s Shame
This makes me want to cry. Caster Semenya, the South African runner at the centre of a gender dispute, has been placed on suicide watch, according to a report in the Star newspaper in South Africa. She doesn’t deserve what happened to her, espe...
Possible honour killings in Kingston
The media are finally beginning to acknowledge the presence of an extra large, grey, four-legged creature with massive ears, a short tail and a hose-like nose in the room. We’re even beginning to hear/read its common English name, albeit in q...
Conservative Messaging II: Are we taking control?
Back in February I spoke about Conservatives taking control of their own message. Today, Joanne over at Blue Like You touched on a similar topic in method, which I have found further supported not to long ago at Sandy’s blog Crux of the Matter ...
Happy Dominion Day!
From our family to yours, we trust you and yours have a safe and enjoyable July 1. For the men and women of the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan and other corners of the planet, who wear the flag with pride, we trust you have an excellent day as well. ...
Candy-Coating The Soviet Union’s Crimes Against Religious Freedom
If there existed a theory out there which stated that the re-construction of history begins roughly 20 years after a period ends, than it would not come to a surprise to this author. In true form, what we knew about the Soviet Union, a corrupt, inef...
