Conservatives have never understood youth culture, not even when they were young, but they have sometimes tried to capitalize on it. No, they didn’t have Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young or Arlo Guthrie but they did have Janet Greene, Tony Dolan and Vera Vanderlaan and no, you shouldn’t know who those people…
Freedom is a Hammer :: Conservative Folk Music of the 60s
Conservatives have never understood youth culture, not even when they were young, but they have sometimes tried to capitalize on it. No, they didn’t have Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young or Arlo Guthrie but they did have Janet Greene, Tony Dolan and Vera Vanderlaan and no, you shouldn’t know who those people…
The CBC is Cool Again in Rural Ontario
Take note Mr. Harper: The Conservatives, having all but given up on Quebec seem to have miscalculated on the reaction to their passive-aggressive attack on the CBC. The loudest cries against the recently announced CBC cuts are coming – not from Toronto (where Conservatives aren’t even serious contenders) but from rural ridings that Conservatives will…
Beware the Wounded Animal
By turning their back on the CBC against the will of the public and then trying to kill the long gun registry against the wishes of Canada’s police forces the Harper government is showing all the signs of a group that knows they will soon lose power. Ever since Ignatieff replaced Dion as Liberal leader…
Conservative Party Sets It’s Sights On Student Groups
The Conservative Party is a strange beast. The entire goal of the party seems to be the accumulation of power for the sake of having power. While Harper has hardly been a progressive on any issue he is certainly not a fiscal conservative, and although he has expressed support for social conservative issues he is…
James Moore should Resign
Heritage Minister James Moore said today that the CBC could be looking at 6-1200 job cuts. The thing is Moore is in a unique position as the closest member of government to the national public broadcaster. That means that either a) Moore took it upon himself to release sensitive, secret information before the CBC could…
Why Canada Can’t Have an Obama, and Why I’ll Never Join Your Party
Barack Obama ran for President without the elders and power brokers of the Democratic Party behind him. He ran on the vague notion of hope and change and on a set of concrete ideas about health care, the economy, foreign policy, the environment, education etc., Canada cannot have it’s Barack Obama at the moment because…
Cracks Start to Show in Tory Base
Remember the other day when I pondered whether there would be a conservative backlash against Harper’s big spending budget? Well apparently the answer is yes. According to the CBC the rumblings have begun. With a federal budget projecting that Canada will be $85 billion further in debt by 2013, some Conservative party faithful are questioning…
the Decline of Canadian Conservatism: It Ain’t Easy Being Blue
I’m not a conservative, I agree with them on very little but sometimes you just have to feel sorry for conservatives in Canada. After the collapse of the Progressive Conservatives in 93 the divided party could not seem to gain any traction or get anywhere near power. Ten years later the party reunited – keeping…
Conservatives Open Fire on Ignatieff
Harper wants his government to fall, I don’t see any other way to look at it. Earlier today the Liberals made Iggy interim leader. Immediately after that progressives groaned. A little later in the afternoon pundits began speculating about the Conservatives and the Liberals building bridges, finding compromise and working out a way to avoid…