Aboriginal Celebration My mood was one of celebration in watching and hearing the final result of the Manitoba election wherein Manitobans resoundingly elected Canada’s first aboriginal premier, Wab Kinew. Manitoba may be our most forgotten and ignored province but it has been a leader in many ways, largely the result of having elected NDP governments …
Category: Political stuff
Fallacious Casting of Fault
Shared with Public Fallacious Casting of Fault A Conservative MP recently got up in parliament and began listing the hardships being experienced by the Canadian working class. He listed, job insecurity, unaffordable cost of living, poor pensions, and an awareness of never being able to buy a home in their lifetime. This, he states, is …
Columbia Elects Leftist Rebel
The people of Columbia, in a historic election, elected the first left wing leader in the history of the country. I wonder if our government is going to connive with the U.S. to institute another South American coup as they did against the first Aboriginal president of Bolivia. While the coup succeeded the right-wing government …
Green Party
Green Party Annamie Paul should not have been elected leader of the Green Party. Her politics would place her near the right fringe of her party while the party is moving left. The future of the party lays with younger voters that are concerned with the environment but also progressive recognizing that the capitalist system …
Crumbling Capitalism
U.S. Capitalism is so screwed up that the government, the fed, have no certainty, no idea, what to do about it. We have been in a world-wide pandemic with the U.S. being the hardest hit country in the world, in terms of human loss and the resultant economic crisis. This while the wall street stocks are …
My Humble Advice to the NDP
My Humble Advice Something NDP’rs should all know from the last election; Singh was the best performer in the English and possibly French language debates. He was witty, funny, had a good presence and debated strongly. If I was to give the NDP, one piece of advice, I would say they should make democracy an …
Progressive Populism
Progressive Populism Populism has become a bad word in contemporary political jargon. It has become associated with the politics of a trending nationalism and racism, as witnessed in some Europeon countries and the U.S.A. This is a misrepresentation of the word. It seems lost on political writers that Populism can be good. A dictionary definition …
The Oddity of the Black Vote
I am still shaking and shuddering from the way the Sander’s, Biden and company U.S. Democratic primaries have gone. It may have made sense to a political science prof. but not to me. Sander’s looked like a run-a-way until Georgia and the Black vote which came out en-masse for Biden and subsequently through all the …
Bernie Can Win
This piece was predicated on Bernie winning the Democratic Party Presidential nomination which now appears highly unlikely. The assumption that Joe Biden was down and out was erroneous not only on my part but the majority of political pundits. His landslide win in South Carolina Primary was unforeseen with polls leading up to the vote …
British Election – A Lot Hangs in the Balance
With just days to go, the British election polls are showing Labour trailing the Conservatives. That’s the bad news. The good news is that Labour is inching up. I cannot understand the British Voter, but I cannot understand the Canadian voter neither re: Doug Ford. You might think the British election is a no brainer. …