CFN – I caught up with Keith Beardsley at the Liberal Caucus at the Ottawa Convention Centre. It was old and new. Dr. Evil has been in Canadian politics for an awful long time. He worked for three Prime Ministers, Mulroney, Clark, and Harper andContinue Reading
Dear Editor, Prime Minister Harper’s analogy is of Canada not being a ” ‘giant national’ park for the U.S.” and that the “Pipeline debate should be left to Canadians” More valid is this: Canada is a giant resource base. He would have American environmentalists excluded from pipeline debate. For consistencyContinue Reading
CFN – Thomas Mulcair is being bitten by the Ghost of Jack Layton as he’s being raked in the media over his dual French and Canadian citizenship. “I would prefer that a leader of a party hold only Canadian citizenship, because one represents many Canadians, and for me that meansContinue Reading
CFN – Mounting opposition to the Keystone XL project shouldn’t have come as a surprise. In this day and age of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other forms of social media, any government (both politicians and bureaucrats) is at a disadvantage when they promote a policy or back a decision. EveryContinue Reading
CFN – As someone who has been up to his eyeballs in pot activism for 9 years, I would classify this Liberal vote to legalize pot as a bamboozle. The delegates did the right thing, and should be commended for their hard work, but the party will likely notContinue Reading
CFN – So I’m not seeing it yet. This weekend’s Federal Liberal caucus probably drew more people than the Conservatives and NDP combined. That isn’t necessarily what future government’s are made of; especially if you’re hoping to make up the next one by the time Mr. Harper is doneContinue Reading
Liberal Party is alive and well. I just returned from the biennial convention of the Liberal Party of Canada. To friends and foes, I share this eye-witness account: the Liberal Party of Canada is alive and well. Recent speculation that the Liberal Party is dead or irrelevant is premature andContinue Reading
CFN – The Liberals held their biennial convention this past weekend in Ottawa. For the most part a good show and I am sure the delegates went home with a warm and fuzzy feeling. While it was billed as the convention to reinvent the Liberal Party, I didn’t see muchContinue Reading
CFN – So how big a role do you think Stephen Harper is going to have on who the next Federal Liberal leader will be? This weekend’s Liberal convention was kinda interesting. Not a lot of surprises. I think my biggest one was seeing Keith Beardsley firing arrows on behalfContinue Reading
CFN – I am not a card holding Liberal at the moment. I’m not a card holder of any Federal party; but I have to admit I really like Bob Rae. It’s not because he’s been generous of his time with CFN. Frankly I generally only ask interviewsContinue Reading
CFN– Like last century’s master of propaganda, Josef Goebbels, Sun Media columnist and “Ethical Oil” creator Ezra Levant is no idiot. Goebbels had a Doctorate degree in German literature – Levant graduated from the University of Alberta Law School. Both these gentlemen used the press effectively and to their advantageContinue Reading
CFN – NDP Deputy Leader Thomas Mulcair was joined by Vancouver MP Don Davies today to announce a new retirement security proposal aimed at giving every Canadian access to a guaranteed benefit pension plan. Davies, the two-term MP for Vancouver—Kingsway, is the latest Member of Parliament to endorse Mulcair’s candidacy.Continue Reading
TO: Cornwall Free News RE: Ezra Levant – Friend of China, but Foe to Canadians December 31, 2011 Editor: Contrary to the innuendo in this article, no business connection exists between the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and Ezra Levant. Nor does CAPP provide funding to the growing ethical oil movement basedContinue Reading
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz5e_TojMmw CFN – It’s always interesting to look into what makes politicians tick. Eric Duncan is an unusual politician. It’s rare to see someone as young as he is be so politically smart and ambitious. Eric is the Wizard pulling the levers of the Big Blue Machine hereContinue Reading
CFN – Dear Federal Liberal Party of Canada. First off, as a former long time Liberal I want to give your current party leader Bob Rae credit for keeping the Liberal brand in the media; more so than the NDP in spite of being brutalized in the last election. SurelyContinue Reading
CFN – In my previous post I looked at some steps that could be implemented to improve Question Period and at the same time help to fix our dysfunctional parliament. These included allowing the Speaker to skip over disruptive MPs whose names are on his list of questioners for thatContinue Reading
Dear Editor, Stephen Harper is preparing Canadians to support a war against Iran by saying for the second time it is “the most serious threat to peace and security in the world”, Iran has no nuclear weapons as does North Korea, China and Russia nor has it made war onContinue Reading
CFN – Unfortunately our parliament often reflects what we would expect to see in a school yard. We have the bullies, the name callers, those that shout and disrupt and some pretty decent kids who work hard and who for the most part don’t get the same attention or recognitionContinue Reading