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Fringe candidates have many reasons for running
Why would someone want to run in an election they have no hope of winning? The reasons are many: Frustration with party politics, motivation to promote an extreme ideology, or a fixation on one particular issue.
Day shrugs off debate challenge
Stockwell Day says he won't be debating Chilliwack BC Conservative candidate Chad Eros any time soon.
Where does Fast stand on wasteful mailings?
Word is out that the federal Conservatives plan to use your tax dollars to mail their juvenile propaganda against (new Liberal leader) Justin Trudeau to your home.
THATCHER/HARPER WORLD MUCH THE SAME
To the editor: -- Re: "Olson wrong on Thatcher," Letters, April 26.
Greasing party wheels in B.C
So how much is too much? It's a question worth asking after B.C.'s political parties reported their 2012 fundraising hauls last week.
Taking liberties
IT shouldn't come as a surprise that in the wake of the Boston bombings and an apparently foiled plot to derail a train in Canada, the government has fast-tracked a new anti-terrorism bill.
Greasing political wheels in B.C
So how much is too much? It's a question worth asking after B.C.'s political parties reported their 2012 fundraising hauls last week.
Kudos & Kvetches
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservatives have unearthed a lot of dirt on Justin Trudeau since he became leader of the federal Liberal party. Almost immediately, the Conservatives began running attack ads questioning Trudeau's lack of experience, his good looks, his name appeal and willingness to take his shirt off for charity. Taking your shirt of at the Calgary Stampede or while picketing an abortion clinic, sure - but for charity?
An attempt to strangle truth out of history
I've made fun of Francis Fukuyama before. He's about as stupid as a really, really smart guy can be.
The attempt to strangle history
I've made fun of Francis Fukuyama before. He's about as stupid as a really, really smart guy can be. Back in the 1990s, he made a big splash with a book called The End of History, in which he hypothesized that human society had taken on its final form: representative democracy plus capitalism. All other visions of utopia need not apply.
Scrap gun licence renewal fees
What will Prime Minister Stephen Harper and followers do next to skim off more revenue from the savings of Canadians?
When profits trump all else
The Royal Bank's swift reaction this week to the tide of negative publicity over its off-loading of Canadian jobs onto foreign shores would be funny if it weren't so depressing. Employees and former employees went to the media and told how they were tasked with training their replacements - who would then take those jobs offshore.
Delta won't be forced to service TFN
A proposed federal law won't compel Delta to provide water and sewer services to the massive growth planned at the Tsawwassen First Nation.
Politicians too have right to free speech
Voltaire's oft-quoted defence of free speech, "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it," is a relevant today as it ever was.
Let him speak
Voltaire's oft-quoted defence of free speech, "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it," is as relevant today as it ever was. But its relevancy always depends on the honesty of the speaker.
