IS STEPHEN HARPER A PLAGIARIST?

It now emerges, thanks to Stephen Dion and the Liberals,  that in the most important  foreign policy speech he has ever delivered Stephen Harper, when leader of the Opposition, stole his lines from another politician.
The speech that Harper and his speech writer cribbed from was delivered by  Australian prime minister John Howard on March 18, [...]

WHO SCUTTLED THE BAILOUT?

The bailout that unravelled yesterday was from the get-go a Republican project. It originated with a Republican president, was explained by a Republican Secretary of the Treasury and it was driven by the Republican leadership in the Congress.
Despite all this, about two-thirds of the Republicans in the House of Representative voted against it. [...]

WHY IS HARPER MORE POPULAR ABROAD THAN AT HOME?

According to a survey of 14 countries, Stephen Harper is seen much more favourably outside Canada than he is at home.
In Canada 45 per cent of those surveyed said they had a “bad opinion” of Harper; while 42 per cent had a “good opinion”. In the 14 countries surveyed, 25 per cent had [...]

SHOULD SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BE DISCUSSED IN SCHOOLS?

When a same-sex couple in British Columbia dropped its complaint against the B.C. government two years ago, the government promised that the couple, Peter and Murray Corren, would have a role in drafting curriculum in part aimed at educating students about sexual orientation, including same-sex marriage.
Some in the community hailed this decision because it would [...]

WHO WON THE DEBATE?

John McCain needed a game changer last night. He didn’t get one. Barack Obama needed a tie. He got more than that.
The polls I read called Obama the winner. CNN had it 51 to 38 for Obama. CBS had it 39 to 24 for Obama.
There seems no question that Obama won [...]

IS THE BANK BAILOUT FAIR?

Is the bank bailout fair?
It seems the answer is in the question. Notice it says bail out for the banks that caused the problem in the first place. It says nothing about a bailout for homeowners who are financially strapped by faulty mortgages.
As I understand it, this is the situation in broad [...]

SHOULD FRIDAY’S DEBATE BE POSTPONED?

Why has John McCain dropped another tactical bombshell? He wants Friday’s presidential debate postponed because of the Wall Street financial crisis.
Also McCain (along with Obama) have now accepted President Bush’s invitation to a meeting in Washington today to discuss the bailout.
It’s ironic in a way that John McCain is now so hell bent to [...]

SHOULD HARPER PUT A 14 YEAR-OLD IN PRISON FOR LIFE?

Cracking down on crime is red meat to the rubes. Sadly, there are a lot of rubes out there. Stephen Harper is counting on it.
He has just announced a get tough policy on teen-age offenders, as young as14, who are convicted of serious crimes such as murder. They would face stiffer sentences [...]

IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN NEED OF REFORM?

When he addressed the Anglican Lambeth Conference this summer, the Vatican’s Cardinal Walter Kasper noted that the Catholic church could learn from the way Anglicans “debate, listen to each other and produce decisions that come from within and are not imposed from above.”
The Cardinal went on to say that ecumenical relations between the Catholic and [...]

WHO HAS THE BEST ELECTION?

Up here in the frozen north, we’re always complaining that our election can’t compare to the one down south.
They have lipstick on a pig. We have poop on a leader.
We have no inspiring candidates to excite us. We have no fierce debates. Instead we have a bunch of guys (and one [...]