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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: economy

  • Strike two, Ms May

    Not everyone wants to vote Liberal or Conservative. This has been traditional fertile ground for the NDP for those left of centre folks or provides an opening for right wing competition to the conservatives. And let’s be honest. 3rd and 4th parties want a minority parliament because that gives them the opportunity to leverage their…

  • The Greens are trying their hand at populism and its just as disingenuous as anything on the far right

    I get the antipathy towards fracking; its a drilling technique fraught with risks to carbon pollution; potential groundwater contamination and seismic activity. Its also the exclusive technique used to extract natural gas and shale oil. Now for the sake of this article, I’m not considering the environmental aspect of the Green’s argument – because at…

  • License requirements matter

    When it comes to the license requirements for ride hailing drivers when the new regulations kick in, these new drivers will be required to have a class 4 license. That’s it. The angry BC Liberal side is saying this is an unfair and onerous weight to carry, I say otherwise. The stats suggest that on…

  • Green party sneaks a change into their climate change agenda while nobody* noticed.

    * Almost. The hint is #13 of their “Mission Possible” document. Before. After. The point is that in #13, the Green Party, as a government would compel changes that would both end subsidies to fossil fuels while simultaneously investing (taxpayer money) in new and expanded fossil fuel infrastructure in Canada. I may not be an…

  • BC Liberals are hypocrites on ride hailing

    If you’re just tuning in, you might be forgiven for thinking that the BC Liberals have been the champion of ride hailing services the whole time. You’d be wrong. Very wrong. As recently as 2014, a year after the ’13 election, the BC Liberal transportation minister was openly threatening fines and/or jail time for such…

  • Class warfare politics again

    If you’re just tuning in now, you may have been tempted to think the rising star of the conservatives will run to the rescue of beleaguered modest and middle income earners and save Canada from the elitist egg heads of the Liberal Party. There’s a problem with that. Both Liberal and Conservative politicians serve the…