Expect hard line on Tamil boat people
Well, the headline sums up my entire thesis. The rest of this is just … Why? First of all, let me backtrack a little bit. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post about how the whole mandatory...
View ArticleStephen Harper Is A Druid
Of course he isn’t (he’s not, is he?) and that’s the point I’m trying to make. I don’t know Steve’s religious affiliation (although I’m going to take a wild flyer and guess some Protestant...
View ArticleWhy Trudeau Is The Smartest Man In Canada
I swore to myself I wasn’t going to write about Trudeau — probably ever, certainly not now in the run-up to his coronation as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. So many other people are...
View ArticleWhy Trudeau’s Alberta Comments Just Don’t Matter
It was nice of Justin Trudeau to apologize for comments he made two years ago in a Quebec TV interview that “Canada isn’t doing well right now because it’s Albertans who control our community and...
View ArticleWhat Canada-EU Free Trade Deal?
HAMBURG — Sorry, Canada, Europe’s just not that into you. In a commercial sense, I mean. Most Europeans still have a dewy-eyed puppy love for Canada as a romantic idea (an emotional state which,...
View ArticleWhere’s Sir John A. When You Need Him?
“Ain’t I the old devil though?” — Sir John A. Macdonald responding to a blistering Liberal attack on his political mistakes Stephen Harper has been accused of a lot of things during his time as...
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