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Is the big blue machine slowing down?
Stephen Harper has faced many a scandal before, and has weathered each one. In the lead up to the 2011 election, it seemed like something new popped up each day – there was Bev Oda’s orange juice and trouble with “nots”, Bruce Carson’s fraud charges and escorts, Jason Kenney’s use of government resources to target […]
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How a Bill Becomes a Law
“At the end of the day, in my opinion, they’ve made up their mind and this is how we’re going to vote. One person is not going to make a difference, one MP is not going to make a difference.” In some respects, I feel bad for David Wilks. The video that will ultimately destroy […]
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Happy Anniversary!
One year ago today, Stephen Harper turned an “unwanted election” into his first majority government, Jack Layton and the NDP soared to never before seen heights, and Liberals spent the evening curled up in a fetal position sobbing in the corner. On political anniversaries, it’s tempting to give each party a thumbs up or thumbs […]
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Election Post-Mortem: The Conservatives
Previously: NDP, Bloc, Liberals, Greens A lot has been written over the past two weeks about the election that was, but nearly all of it has been about Jack Layton’s victory. This may be a bit unfair to the election’s actual winner, so let’s pause for a moment to reflect on what Stephen Harper accomplished […]
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You Know What’s Cool? Not Caring About the Census.
A CPC campus recruitment poster talks about “how being cool means not trying desperately to be seen as cool”. Like the Conservatives.