The Wolseley Progressive

Canadian and Global Politics and History from the perspective of a Winnipeg Social Democrat.

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Seriousness Gap

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How does The Globe compute Pawlenty's moderate record as Minnesota's Governor with the fact that he's gone way off the deep en...
Monday, 23 May 2011

Conservatives have no credibility in regards to the Senate

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Conservatives, especially of the populist Western variety, have argued that democratic reforms are needed in order to 'shed the elitist ...
Wednesday, 18 May 2011

Recounts

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There's four recounts resulting from the elections on the second of May: NDP candidate Francois Lapointe was declared winner by just el...
Tuesday, 17 May 2011

It was all about the Sixties

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The Roman Catholic Bishops of the United States commissioned a study to "analyze patterns of sex abuse".  It's conclusions? ...

The Battle of Ideas

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Monte Solberg does a pretty good job of beating the Liberals over the head on the issue of their current 'big idea' problems.  I do...

One of these is not like the Other

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The CBC reports on a press conference held by the NDP discussing its desire to raise funding for the arts in Canada. The Globe and Mail t...
Monday, 16 May 2011

Is Anyone Surprised?

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Donald Trump, potential candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States, has regretfully decided against running...

Republicans Holding America Hostage with the Debt Ceiling

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Today the United States expects to hit the debt ceiling currently set at $14.3 trillion as mandated by the US Congress.  While there have b...
Sunday, 15 May 2011

How Not to Explain a Foreign Election - Time Magazine Edition

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Erik Heinrich of Time decided to chime in on the Canadian federal election today with an utterly dreadful article that essentially argued t...

The Separatist NDP Quebec Caucus

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Jean-Louis Fortin of QMI concern trolls the NDP's Quebec caucus: MONTREAL - Quebecers elected a good number of separatists when they v...
Saturday, 14 May 2011

Fiscal Conservatism

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Via the Toronto Star : OTTAWA—As Conservatives prepare to recall Parliament, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is setting the stage for a clamp...

Could American-Style Supreme Court Struggles Come to Canada?

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Kirk Makin says that with now two vacant positions on the Supreme Court, that Harper has the opportunity to entrench a conservative majorit...
Friday, 13 May 2011

Your New Right-Wing Media

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Pogge ruminated today on the subject of how he believes political pundits are likely to treat the NDP moving into the future: I would expe...

Deficit Woes

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Apparently hoping the media wasn't noticing, current Finance Minister Jim Flaherty waded into the American political scene by warning t...
Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Serious People having a Serious Debate

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Paul Krugman, who has been on a serious tear as of late, wrote a post on a speech by Alan Simpson; the co-chair of American President Obama...
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