Maxime Bernier, MP Beauce, former Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate who received 49.05% of the final tally and was narrowly edged out by Andrew Scheer, announced this morning he was leaving the Conservative Party. In a blog post on his website, Bernier detailed the reasons he was […]
An Alberta woman who appeared not to have put on make-up lamented last week that not one of her four kids are gay. “I don’t spend a lot of time on myself at home” she explained, “I wear sweatpants sometimes and other times I wear jeans or pretty […]
I honestly hope I will not be writing about the racist things Conservative politicians say on a daily basis throughout the rest of this governing cycle. Unfortunately, that day is not here yet. Last Thursday, Prime Minister Trudeau attended a Liberal Party of Canada event in Quebec. During […]
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but not their own facts. ~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan It would be nice to say this is just a weekly theme but it’s become increasingly important. Quotes about lying politicians are centuries old but in the age of social media, those […]
A near plethora a of bad news was oozing from the Postmedia network this week. The “job killing minimum wage increase” displayed decreasing job numbers that were similar to those in Saskatoon, Regina and Winnipeg where minimum wage is not increasing (but not Ontario where minimum wage increased). That […]
The question keeps coming up. “When will the Liberals stop buying Saudi oil?” Newsflash: The federal government is not buying any oil. The federal government, Liberal or Conservative, does/did not buy oil from Saudi Arabia. Guess who does? Canadian refinery companies. Irving Oil, the company who essentially owns […]
Call it what you will: partisanship, identity politics, party loyalty, tribalism – it’s not new but it does seem to be exacerbated of late. While some people are fighting to get rid of “labels” others are grasping onto theirs for dear life. In a way it makes sense; […]
This week in Alberta politics was an eyeopener; for all the wrong reasons. The topic of “differing viewpoints” began earlier this week when LGBTory Alberta director Harrison Fleming defended the United Conservative Party’s willingness to make room in their party for those who believe LGBT+ humans will be […]
“UCP Pride”. It’s kind of like LGBTQ2 Pride except for Conservatives who don’t want to actually attend Pride. The safe space for Calgary area Conservatives will likely be set up a few blocks away from Pride festivities, similar to the event held during Pride in Edmonton in June. And […]
