Lately, there has been a lot of jostling and talking about a federal election here in Canada. With a minority government an election is going to happen sooner rather than later. Personally, I’m not convinced there will be one this spring, but the exact timing of the pending election isn’t all that important: all parties […]
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Police Powers to be Expanded
19 August 2005 – 5:59 pm
I don’t doubt that there are folks that would be shocked or surprised to see this kind of police power expansion being discussed, but I’m not surprised. As far as I can see, the majority of people involved in government aren’t actually concerned about whether any individual citizen has rights. Most government policies appear to […]
More Focus on the North
18 August 2005 – 9:45 pm
I think it’s a good thing that there has been increased attention on the North lately. As is commonly observed: with the warming of the Northern climate there is bound to be more activity up there. So I was glad to read that the CF are sending some ships to Churchill and further. It’s going […]
Garth Turner Joins the Liberals
The news item of the day for Canadian political junkies is that former Conservative, more recently Independent, MP Garth Turner has joined the Liberals. I’ve read only a little bit of the online commentary and it mostly seems to be what I would expect. The current incarnation of Garth Turner, MP was a lightning rod […]