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GenX. My politics are clearly left and I’m tired of compromise with the neo-liberal right. They’ve driven a wedge with their money based centrist politics. We used to be able to do great things and we can again; we just need the leadership to do so; and folks to say as much.

Category: Canadian politics

  • Liberals try to corner NDP and fail.

    From the outset of the 2021 election call, when the federal Liberals saw that their plan of an easy romp to a majority was clouded, they pulled the emergency trigger. True to form, when the Liberals have their backs against the wall, they charge that a CPC government would repeal a woman access to her…

  • The coming vaccination mandates are a good thing. Finally.

    To be clear, that in the free nations of the world, no government can force you to take a medication against your will. But they can inversely make life hard if you ‘choose’ not to. This might sound heavy handed or unfair, but a government – who derives its authority to govern by the people…

  • I won’t be celebrating Canada Day this year

    Canada is going through some things lately and its very troubling to watch as some folks deny and dismiss what we are; how we became us. Ours is a story of European exploration and proxy battles that led to a nation being settled on land where nobody bothered to ask those who lived here if…

  • My heart aches for the Pacheedaht

    I must start out by reminding readers that I am neither first nation, nor a member of the Pacheedaht first nation. That being said, the recent chain of events has me wondering the mindset of the Pacheedaht who were outnumbered by the protesters blockading their lands in an attempt to stop a duly signed logging…

  • Divide and Conquer

    I posted an image to my facebook and twitter that was largely critical of the Fairy Creek protesters. They appeared to be basking in the self promoting they were doing of stopping all logging on Pacheedaht territory on the same day that the country was reeling from the news of 215 bodies of native children…

  • Justice and Dignity

    Did you get sick at the headline that the bodies of 215 indigenous children were discovered buried on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School? Good. Its awful, and its yet another genocidal act that Canada has inflicted on our first peoples as they tried to assimilate them into Canada. Canada didn’t include first…

  • Just when you thought the BC Liberals couldn’t sink any lower..

    President Joe Biden just signed a bill that allows foreign flagged cruise ships to bypass a foreign port on their way to another US port. In english, this means that a cruise ship is no longer going to stop in Vancouver or Victoria on their way from Seattle to Alaska. This is meant as a…

  • This isn’t sitting well with me. At all.

    Before I get into the gears of my post, I want to be clear that I am no expert on first nation reconciliation and UNDRIP; certainly as it pertains to natural resources on land controlled by a first nation. I also want to stress that I am not first nation. My family lineage extends into…

  • Criticizing covid19 countermeasures should have a test applied

    In order for you to have a valid argument to make on covid19 countermeasures, you first have to accept that covid19 is real and deadly; that it’s a dangerous pandemic that must be met with all available measures to mitigate loss of life as best we know how. Because for you do deny the science…

  • Paid sick leave isn’t urgent because its a contest to see who can deliver it first, its urgent because its necessary and right.

    There seems to be a rush to claim credit for a program nobody can figure out how its paid for or who’s jurisdiction it is. If you came to me for that answer, sorry, I don’t have it. But what I do have is an idea that might work – if politicians are ready to…