Nice Things to Say About: Obama, Chrétien, Clark, Broadbent & Axworthy

I squirm at the thought as much as any realpolitik-minded foreign policy sophist, but President Obama has made a real and positive move on global defense and security policy in the form of today’s nuclear non-proliferation treaty. What’s more is that Jean Chrétien, Joe Clark, Ed Broadbent and Lloyd Axworthy – all doves of a [...]

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March 26, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  4 Comments

EPIC FAIL: What do the Riders and Joe Clark Have in Common?

Saskatchewan’s heartbreaking defeat last night to the Montreal Alouettes in the “less than last second” brought me to thinking this morning about a strange historical comparison between another Western Canadian and another Montrealer.
After considering the game in the bag after Montreal missed the field goal required to overcome it’s  2-point deficit, the Riders were defeated [...]

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November 30, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content, Canadian Political Fails  One Comment

Joe Clark: Still Irrelevant

The Toronto Star today pontificates on why Joe Clark’s brand of soft-socialism holds so little sway in the current political landscape.
“Confederation was an act of will. So was medicare. So was equalization. So was the Charter of Rights. So was free trade”.  -Joe Clark, Summer 2009
Well, that pretty much sums it up.  Medicare, federal welfare [...]

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July 17, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Blog Content  Comments Closed

Joe Who Said What?: Canadian Stimulus Package to the World

In Clark’s latest pontificating on economic policy, he recommends that Canadian stimulus (read deficit) spending should be a tap opened up to the rest of the world.
While spending our children’s money today on the faulty Keynesian premise of “economic pump-priming” appears to be in vogue, spending it elsewhere for the same purpose seems new to [...]

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February 25, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Blog Content  Comments Closed