The Canadian Rant

MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT STEPHEN HARPER This is for all of you out there (and I've mentioned you before) who think that the election of Stephen Harper as Prime Minister of Canada was the worst possible outcome of the last election. For those of you who see Harper as a bible-thumping, anti-gay marriage, anti-abortion westerner, who helped found the Reform Party I have something I would like to share with you. You are wrong! There are a lot of people out there, including many who vote for him, who have no idea where he comes from, what his roots are, and what he believes in. I hope to enlighten you a little bit. Quick question: What city or province is Harper from? Answer: Alberta... wrong. Stephen Harper is from Toronto, Ontario (just for the record that is not out west) He was born and raised in Ontario and went to university there before he moved out west to attend the University of Calgary. There has been a lot of criticism thrown Harper's way in regards to his social beliefs on ...

LIBERALS CONTINUE TO RUN INTO TROUBLES While the federal Liberal party is in the midst of an important leadership race there continue to be blemishes appearing around every corner. After the Super Weekend a little while ago where all of the ridings chose their delegates that will be going to the leadership convention in December to vote for a new leader Michael Ignatieff appeared to have a solid grasp on over 30% of voters. There are eight candidates still left in the race and the only one close to Ignatieff is Bob Rae with 19% which is surprising seeing that the 4 people who have dropped out of the race since it began have thrown their support behind Rae. After these numbers were published Ignatieff felt that his numbers would continue to grow and he would end of as leader of the Liberal party. All I can say is that he's trying his hardest to prevent that from happening. Since the weekend Ignatieff has pulled off the brilliant move of saying that Israel is guilty of war crimes in ...

FEBRUARY 6, 2006 TO THE PRESENT: 8 MONTHS AND COUNTING Does this date mean anything to you? If someone asked you what happened on this day in history would you know? February 6th, 2006 was the day the Stephen Harper became the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada. He won the winter election to succeed Paul Martin as PM and put the Conservatives back into power after 13 years. There are many people, including me, who were happy to hear this knowledge and there are those who are skeptical. For those of you out there who dreaded the day that Harper became PM of Canada and thought that he would do a horrible job I want you to take a look at what has happened over the last 8 months. It brought to an end constant criticism of the government due to the sponsorship and income trust scandals. And it brought forward a new chapter in Canadian history of new hope. There were five key points to the Conservative election campaign: federal accountability, tax reform, crime, child care, and health care. In j...

NOVA SCOTIA FINALLY JOINS THE REST OF THE FREE WORLD Well the province that I live in and love has finally come to its senses. What am I talking about? We finally can buy stuff seven days a week in this province starting today because before today the government decided that on one random day a week (turned out to be Sundays) we weren't allowed to shop. Now Nova Scotia can partake in shopping whenever they want and store owners can open whenever they want. The people of Nova Scotia recently took part in a plebisite on Sunday Shopping where they voted on whether they thought there should be Sunday Shopping or not and if they did whether it should be all year round or just the 6 weeks before Christmas. For some reason the people of NS voted against Sunday Shopping and that was supposed to be the end of it. Then two large grocery chains (aka. Sobeys and the Atlantic Superstore) found a little loophole in the law that allowed them to open on Sundays. Because of this the government of N...