Feature: Canadian Politics in Review
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Canadian Politics: We're Having An Election Too (Not That Anybody's Noticed)— Steven Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada could very well have a majority government by October 15th.
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Canada's Safe Injection Site Given Reprieve By Courts— British Columbia's Supreme Court declared that allowing addicts to inject drugs in a safe, medically supervised environment is a matter of sensible health care.
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Just Say Yes: To Safe Injection Sites— Isn't it time to stop saying no, and start saying yes to safe injection sites?
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Logic And Reason: The Latest Victims Of HIV/AIDS— It seems that logic, reason, and statistical evidence mean nothing to people like the Prime Minister of Canada and his fellow travellers.
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What Do Canada's Native Residential Schools And Barack Obama Have In Common?— You can't just wish away history or whisk it under the rug as if it never happened.
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Multiculturalism And The Melting Pot: Immigration In Canada And The United States, Part One— Through the 1960s it was easy to portray Canada as a happy, multicultural paradise.
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Canadian Politics: Intolerance Rising— Fear of something because you don't understand it is the behaviour of a coward, and intolerance is the coward's defence against fear.
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The Politics Of Fear— Politicians don't even like themselves enough to give people reasons to vote for them.
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Book Review: Rick Mercer Report - The Book by Rick Mercer— If Rick Mercer Report can make an iconoclast like me think seriously about why I love my country, think what it can do for you.
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Canadian Politics: Military Spending Part 2— Sixteen billion dollars is a fair chunk of change and I think I'd like to know how they made their decisions, wouldn't you?
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Canadian Politics: New Military Spending Part 1— If the government was serious about wanting to protect our country they would defend our Arctic territories and coastal waters.
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Canadian Politics: Military Denies Access To Information About Afghan Detainees— Ensure eveyone believes what you tell them...suppress any evidence that contradicts you.
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Canadian Politics: Native Treaty Rights And Land Claims— the grass has gotten pretty brown and the running water has slowed to a trickle.
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Canadian Politics: It's Time For A National Drug Treatment Program— The "War On Drugs" has proven to be a failure, isn’t it time we tried a different approach?
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Canadian Politics: Child Poverty - Our Shame— there is no reason that any child in Canada should be going to bed hungry at night or without a roof over their head.
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Canadian Politics: Support Our Troops! When It's Suits Us.— a government who cared about the people it sent overseas would treat their families with respect and compassion.
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Canadian Politics: Canada Ignores Geneva Convention In Afghanistan— Either way they (the government) are guilty of allowing the circumstances for these people being tortured to develop
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Canadian Politics: Prime Minister Harper And Human Rights - Not A Good Mix— Not since Ravana, the ten-headed demon lord of Indian history, has a person presented more faces to the public at one time
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Canadian Politics: No Apology For Residential Schools— The Canadian Government should apologize for cultural genocide against Native Canadians.
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Canadian Politics: More Anti-Terrorist Legislation In Trouble— These types of special powers should not just be renewed for the sake of scoring a few political points.
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Canadian Politics: Election Winds Are Blowing— ...very funny how a political party so unwilling to fight an election, is as prepared to fight one as the Conservative Party.
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Canadian Politics: Green Games— The real losers in this game are going to be all of us
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Canadian Politics: Recess Is Over— Stephen and the boys don't play well with others and have problems with sharing.
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Canadian Politics: Canada's Drug Policy A Bust— Misguided emphasis on enforcement instead of treatment.
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Canadian Politics: 2006 Preparation For 2007
— Who says politics and soap operas have nothing in common? They both always leave you hanging.
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Canadian Politics: Mohawk Land Claims Being Ignored Again— If you buy stolen property what kind of compensation do you usually get?
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Canadian Politics: Fallout From Inquiry Into Torture Victim Maher Arar Continues— Otherwise there always will remain the chance of what happened to Mr. Arar happening to you and me.
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Canadian Politics: Native Rights in Canada - Update— Who knows? Canadians may even end up as equal partners in the country.
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Canadian Politics: Stephane Dion New Leader Of The Liberal Party Of Canada
— Stephane Dion could very well be the man to lead the Liberals back to power.
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Canadian Politics: The Split Personality Of The Liberal Party Of Canada— Dealing with the Liberal Party of Canada is like dealing with a creature with two brains...
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Canadian Politics: What are The Conservatives Conserving?— The Conservative Party of Canada exists to conserve itself and what it believes in.
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Canadian Politics: Conservatives Sing The Same Old Song - Election Coming?— The Conservatives will play to everyone's baser instinct of more money in their pockets.
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Canadian Politics: Quebec Past And Present - Plus ça change...— Espousing support of Quebec as a distinct society has always been a favoured ploy because it sounds substantial without having any real meaning.
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Canadian Politics: Don't Worry About Them, Nobody Else Does— My chauvinism says that it's a sign of our good quality that people don't need to read about us.
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Canadian Politics: Defence Of Religion Bill Equals Hate Mongering— Steven Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada are hate mongers.
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Canadian Politics: Afghanistan, What Were We Fighting About Again?— It would be ironic if the war everybody else seems to have forgotten about brings down a government in Canada.
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Canadian Politics: Steven Harper is George Bush's Dummy - The Lips Don't Even Move— To be fair, the two have a lot in common: homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, and a belief in protecting the rights of advocates of these.
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Canadian Politics: Unanswered Questions About Maher Arar— ... another dirty little stain on Canada's supposedly lily-white hands that will never wash off.
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Canadian Politics: The Case Of The Missing Kyoto Accord #8— I had a pretty good idea of who had killed Dr. Magnesen and why.
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Satire: Canadian Politics: The Case Of The Missing Kyoto Accord, Part Seven— It looked like my time on this case was running out fast no matter what I wanted
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Canadian Politics: Canada For Sale, First Come First Served— We are dependent on a government who will care about the future of Canada. This one doesn't.
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Satire - Canadian Politics: The Case Of The Missing Kyoto Accord, Part Six
— More and more I'm convinced that I would never be cut out for bondage. I just don't like mixing work with pleasure that much.
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Satire: Canadian Politics - The Case Of The Missing Kyoto Accord, Part Five— I can only assume that I fell like a ton of bricks because that's what you normally do under the circumstances.
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Satire - Canadian Politics: The Case Of The Missing Kyoto Accord Part Four— "My father's dead, Steve... it has something to do with the Kyoto accord and the Canadian government."
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Satire: Canadian Politics - The Case Of The Missing Kyoto Accord, Part 3— Why were the feds so keen to keep the information about the Kyoto accord quiet?
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Canadian Politics: The Case Of The Disappearing Accord Part 2
— It looked like this missing Kyoto accord was really starting to heat up...
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Canadian Politics: The Case Of The Vanishing Kyoto Accord— ...the climate will continue to change and we'll be living in a desert but worse.
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Canadian Politics: The Lie That Is Afghanistan— Afghanistan is not worth dying for and anyone saying otherwise is lying.
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Canadian Politics: The Scent Of An Election— Ottawa's smelly enough in the summer without the stink of a forthcoming election choking me.
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What's NAFTA Really Protecting?— The environmental business of our businesses is nobody's business but ours.
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Canadian Politics: Reneging On The U.N. Declaration Of Indigenous Rights— There was no way the Conservatives could have signed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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Canadian Politics: Playing To The Crowd— Stephen Harper seems to have forgotten we are a constitutional monarchy where the Prime Minister does not rule.
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Satire: Canadian Politics - The Case Of The Missing Opposition, Part Two— ...our politicians were actually becoming politicians.
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Canadian Politics: Week In Review, July 7-14, 2006— Sometimes it's not the splashy headlines that tell the story of what's going on in the country, or what the future holds.
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Satire: Canadian Politics — The Case Of The Missing Opposition Parties— Canada was going to sleep easier knowing I was taking the case of the missing opposition parties.
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Canadian Politics: Softwood Lumber, The GST, And A Trip To Washington— Canadians will mind if Mr. Harper looks like he forgets which side of the border he lives on.
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