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Keeping first-past-the-post is a gift to the right

| February 6, 2017

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We can now see the Liberal strategy for the next election clearly.

It is based on the idea of wasted votes.

Politics in the West has become scary, what with Brexit and Trump, and far-right, populist parties growing throughout Europe.

Lessons for Canada from a U.S. election that is indeed rigged

Karl Nerenberg

| October 17, 2016

A year ago, Canadians gave Justin Trudeau's Liberals a majority on the basis of a long list of ambitious promises.

In its first year, the new government fulfilled at least some of those promises.

It set up an inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous girls and women, for instance.

But the Liberals have yet to do much about the big First Nations files, including education, health, infrastructure on reserves (including clean water) and control of natural resources.

In large measure, that seems to be the pattern.

The Trudeau Liberals have good intentions, but, so far, they have mostly harvested only the low-hanging fruit.

The hard stuff, the really tough challenges, are still out there.

Jim Prentice was a lonely voice for decency in Harper's government

Karl Nerenberg

| October 14, 2016

There is a convention that when a person dies, one finds kind words to say about them -- even if many of their views and actions might have been anathema.

When this writer did just that in the case of the late Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, a number of rabble readers reacted with scorn.

Doing the same for Jim Prentice, who died on Thursday night in a plane crash near Kelowna, British Columbia, at the age of 60, may elicit the same reaction.

But here goes, nonetheless.

Although he was an Albertan, Jim Prentice did not start his political career in the 1990s with the Alberta-based, bad-boy, rebel Reform Party.

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Regeneration gap: Is the environmental movement winning?

May 30, 2016

| A generational gap in conservative thought appears to be opening with new right wing leaders beginning to accept climate science.

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Conservatives say goodbye to Harper and hello to an unsteady future

Karl Nerenberg

| May 27, 2016

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The Liberals and the Conservatives are holding overlapping conventions, which, for some, might entail a surfeit of political rhetoric.

The Conservatives started first.

In Vancouver, on Thursday night, they heard, for the first time since election night, from their outgoing leader, Stephen Harper.

MPs vow to act on Attawapiskat, but will their resolve last?

Karl Nerenberg

| April 15, 2016

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Former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien thinks he knows the solution to the agony of Attawapiskat and similar remote Indigenous communities.

Move, he counsels them.

Got to where there is work.

Join the mainstream Canadian economy and give up your romantic and impractical attachment to your land and traditions.

Postmedia columnist Christie Blatchford agrees with Chrétien.

The Conservatives and most Liberals recently passed a bill condemning all Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions efforts in Canada. On the 17th of February, the US Senate passed the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 by a 75-20 veto proof margin.

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B.C. politics as seen from Alberta: Christy Clark's re-election strategy exposed

David J. Climenhaga

| February 12, 2016

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You no longer have to live in British Columbia to know what B.C. Premier Christy Clark's strategy is going to be when her Liberal Party tries to win the provincial election scheduled for May 9, 2017.

As she did last time, in 2013, Clark is going to run a dirty campaign against a New Democratic Party leader who won't fight back.

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Kevin O'Leary's extremism logical addition to Canada's Conservative Party

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Rather than some strange deviation, Kevin O'Leary seems like a logical addition to the recent pack of extremists leading Canada's political right.

What perhaps distinguishes O'Leary from Rob Ford, Stephen Harper and Tim Hudak is the sheer openness with which he advocates greed and making Canada safe for billionaires.

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Fixing what Harper broke: A to-do list for the incoming government

Elizabeth May

| October 29, 2015

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We need a stock-taking. A "to-do" list. Some of what the Harper administration broke will be easy to fix; much will be very hard indeed.

What we must do is insist the damage be reversed. There is an equally long list of steps to take moving forward -- but we need to repair immense damage to nearly every aspect of federal law and policy.

Here's a start:

1) Fixing security law:

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