Harper:northern US VP

There is an idea floating around that Harper is now free of George Bush as an albatross and thus free to become his own man. My guess is that Harper, while a conservative republican ideologue, is also a man in constant search of someone with pragmatic ideas since he has none of his own. Everything Harper is doing about the economy now was what Dion said he would do in the first answer he gave to CTV's garbled question. Harper is a follower, not a leader, and the politics he follows most are American politics. Once he followed Bush, now he is now following Obama. We need a PM who does not think of himself as the American VP of Canada.

Lib's galvanizing

But around what ? Above all I want a Liberal Party committed to enshrining water rights in the Charter.

Libs: take the train to BC

Of course there will a time problem for Libs who might try to travel by rail to BC for the Party convention in April, but for those who could take the time to ride the train - a specially chartered one even - that picked up delegates along the way, then the Party would actually enter its convention on a roll, having garnered media attention, delegate bonding, and lots of discussion. They could always fly home afterwards. A cross Canada trip together might just be a way of unifying the party, and who cares if Elizabeth May just used a train to campaign in, it was a good idea, trains are less expensive and have smaller environmental footprints than planes. It would certainly make history.

Harper Crashes through the Arts Again

Saving our economy from the brink by canceling the National Portrait Gallery is apparently even more foolish than it sounds.

Water Rights battle won in Ohio

Water rights were an issue in Akron during the US election:the people voted against the privateers who had been running the system and thus returned the city's supply to public control.

Harper pretends to care about the climate

Wow, it turns out that the reason Harper helped destroy climate change efforts wasn't because he thinks climate change is a socialist plot, but because there was no way Harper could have acted sooner, for the simple reason that George Bush wouldn't let the Cons act. Now that Obama's in, Harper is apparently greener than Elizabeth May and raring to act. Hypocrisy is as hypocrisy does.

Bush League America all but over

All that's left for Bush and Cheney to do now is to shred as much evidence of their malfeseance as they can before they hand over power on January 20 and the police show up at their door. I'm not an Obamaniac, but I'm certainly glad the neo-fascists have been routed to the south. The American empire is dead, and maybe they can create a functioning society now that the republicans have been outed. The world just became a safer place, without the uber-terrorists in the White House. I wish America luck, and perhaps someday I'll even be willing to cross the border again... someday.