Posts tagged harper
“”Politics as war is exactly what former Harper strategist Tom Flanagan has long advocated. A Globe piece by Mr. Flanagan before the 2011 election was actually titled “An election is war by other means.” Mr. Flanagan also chose to compare the 2008 campaign to ancient wars in which Rome, the Conservatives, defeated Carthage, the Liberals, and “razed the city to the ground and sowed salt in the fields so nothing would grow there again”.
As Alan Whitehorn of the Royal Military College of Canada wrote: “This suggests a paradigm not of civil rivalry between fellow citizens of the same state, but all-out extended war to destroy and obliterate the opponent. This kind of malevolent vision and hostile tone seems antithetical to the democratic spirit, not to mention peace and stability.”
..precisely the conservative approach to bipartisan politics.
Be very afraid: Stephen Harper is inventing a new Canada - excellent but depressing post by Gerald Caplan.
I’m proud to live in a country where people are free to criticize the Prime Minister in
the lamest way possiblehilarious ways.
i thought that after twilight that vampires could never look worse. i was wrong.
(via towerofsleep)
Harper government closes Human Rights Commission offices
Canadians living in British Columbia, Ontario and the Atlantic provinces will no longer have access to walk-in or telephone services at a CHRC office even remotely close to where they live. The urban centres where the CHRC offices are being closed represent a high percentage of racialized people. In fact, 60 per cent of all racialized people in Canada live in Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax.
10 bucks says that if someone threw a shoe at Harper, he couldn’t dodge it. with that said, shoe-throwing reporters of the world heed my call: your talents are desperately needed in Canada. hurrrrry.
