BlogsCanada: E-GroupMulti-partisan political punditryConservative Toadies Part 2: North Shore News Columnist Trevor Carolan- March 23, 2006 Conservative MPs and ideologues alike have adopted 2006 Conservative candidates Rondo Thomass most famous utterance as their mantra: the facts dont matter. North Shore News columnist Trevor Carolan is such an ideologue. He is trying to wrestle the title of village idiot away from fellow North Shore News columnist Trevor Lautens. The North Shore News meanwhile seems at times eager to recapture the title of Vancouvers most backward newspaper, a title it automatically won every year Doug Collins..http://www.blogscanada.ca/egroup/PermaLink.aspx?guid=423eb997-1125-4d26-b063-e86afa1684b5 Conservative Toadies Part 1: North Shore News Columnist Trevor Lautens- March 23, 2006 Trevor Lautens begins his 2006 election rap up election wrap up with So the West wanted in. He must be recycling old material from elections past. The Liberals won the most seats in Vancouver and NDP the most seats on the Island. Both are West of Alberta, and Prince George. Politics in Canada is no longer dominated by regional animosities the way it once was. If there is a geographical split it is more ruralurban than Western CanadaEastern Canada. The Conservatives took no seats in urban...http://www.blogscanada.ca/egroup/PermaLink.aspx?guid=e6c024e1-a96a-44b2-adb0-7afae313959e Canada should Get out of Kandahar- March 15, 2006 Part and parcel of an upsurge in nationalist fervor since Bush took over the Whitehouse, Canadians having been expressing a desire for Canada to play a more prominent role in world affairs. Politicians such as Martin and Harper took this as a sign that Canadians should play a greater role in Afghanistan. (The media has been making continued mention of the Afghan mission. This obscures matters. Kabul and Kandahar are for intents of purposes different countries and certainly entirely different...http://www.blogscanada.ca/egroup/PermaLink.aspx?guid=699ccbe7-3578-4bd1-85bd-5233df1c2350 |