James Moore, all your child are belong to us!
Museum’s sex show gets dressing down from feds- Politics – Canoe.ca. I was raised by prudes who never gave me “the talk.” I grew up in an uptight, WASP suburb and traded it in for a redneck farming community. I learned nothing about sex. And I’m gay. I’m pretty damn sure the nation’s 12-to-16-year-olds can [...]
The Leadership Narrative
Way back when, a few months after the last federal election, I replied to the Susan Delacourt’s “Is the Liberal Party dead?” question, echoed ad nauseum in the nation’s press, with a warning to be wary of forcing Canadian politics to fit a certain narrative. That narrative presupposes the inevitability of a polarized left-right dichotomy; [...]
Women in politics: the “squeeze” factor
As any student of Canadian politics knows, Ellen Fairclough was Canada’s first female cabinet minister, appointed by Diefenbaker in 1957 and serving until her defeat as MP for Hamilton West in 1963. I have mixed feelings about Fairclough’s politics: she did good work on the immigration file, but she was a Tory, of course, and [...]
Still bravely singing
I don’t know why people who don’t know me make certain assumptions about my attitude toward the military, but the reality is more complex than black and white. Because I have a reputation as tacking left on foreign affairs issues, because I’m skeptical about military intervention, because I find patriotism and jingoism abhorrent, I’m often [...]
A Tory for Speaker? (plus an Ireland mini-update)
I decided against blogging last week about the new Ontario cabinet in part because it wasn’t very exciting news – no defectors à la Belinda to give the Libs a majority, no new names in cabinet – and also because three (posts), as they say, is the magic number. Had I written the aforementioned would-be post, [...]
Why the Liberal Party isn’t dead
I whipped off a reply today to Susan Delacourt’s blog post questioning whether the Liberal Party of Canada is dead. Coincidentally, I’m doing the Klout thing again – unconvinced it means anything but mindful that people check such scores – and lo and behold, I’m still a “specialist” in politics. I think this is Klout’s [...]
