December 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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June 2011
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My Brother on Rogers TV Tonight →
Hello,
My brother will be on Inside Toronto Real Estate tonight on Rogers TV at 7:00pm.
If you live in the GTA you’ll be able to watch it on television. If not, there’s a link in the title of this post that will take you to where you can stream it live tonight.
Ben will be debating someone from the CMHC about the Toronto Housing Bubble.
You can read more of Ben’s writings...
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Bob Hepburn Pwns Himself →
The link in the title of this blog post is to Bob Hepburn’s article in today’s (Thursday’s) Toronto Star.
The opening line says it all;
Dalton McGuinty is arguably the best Ontario premier in more than a quarter of a century…
This rancid excuse for an Op-Ed should have been written on April Fools Day. I haven’t seen a more pathetic puff piece in a long time.
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Thunderf00t Now Has a Blog! →
So much is going on in the worlds of politics, sports and pretty much everything else but I have had no time to blog about it.
I promise my readers I will get back on top of it in the near future. I’m living in busy times but good things are on the horizon. I’ll explain more later.
Starting Thursday, I will begin a road trip through Ontario with stops in Kingston, Ottawa and Toronto...
May 2011
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My Own Website →
My personal website has been up for a couple weeks now. It’s a constant work in progress.
Check it out! You can see samples of my work over the last three years. Enjoy!
Ethan Rabidoux
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Harper Majority Best Thing to Happen to the NDP →
I stated during the federal election that the worst thing that could happen to the NDP would be for them to actually win power.
They were surging in the polls and some of my left wing friends were really hoping they would pull off a complete miracle.
I warned them that it would be the most dreadful outcome for the party because the NDP wasn’t anywhere near ready to govern. Had they won...
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Democracy is Beautiful and Canada is Great...
Canada’s federal election is now history. The NDP is the Official Opposition, the Conservatives have earned a majority and the Liberals have stumbled badly into third place.
Jack Layton’s final seat count is about where I expected it to be. I thought the Tories would end up with about 20 fewer seats while the Liberals would get 20 more seats.
I predicted the NDP as Official...
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Go Vote!!!
Tomorrow (Monday) is election day in Canada. Every citizen in this fine nation had better get off their butt and go vote.
Far too veterans shed their blood to protect and defend our ability to elect our governments for us to take our democratic heritage for granted.
If you look around the world, people are being killed because they want to elect their leaders.
In short, every citizen who...
April 2011
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How About You Give Me the Benefit of the Doubt...
This blog is almost two years old.
For two years, I have provided scathing political critiques of Stephen Harper from a right-of-centre perspective.
My brother Ben’s blog is now just over one year old. He has provided trenchant and brilliant analysis of Canada’s economic situation also from a right-of-centre perspective.
http://www.theeconomicanalyst.com/
Usually, that has been...
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Muttart Par For The Course →
This Patrick Muttart-Iraq-Ignatieff mess up is beyond weird. It’s also completely typical of the Harper entourage, at least, what’s left of it.
How many have been tossed from the campaign since it started? I think they’re becoming endangered species.
Watching Pierre Peladeau tear the Conservatives apart is borderline existential. The Tories then dismiss Muttart but deny he did...
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Harper's Days are Numbered →
I have to draw everyone’s attention to a blog post I made back in January:
http://rabidoux.tumblr.com/post/2684704286
I made a number of predictions about Ontario and Canadian politics. Among them, I predicted a federal election in the Spring, a weakened Conservative minority followed by a Liberal/NDP coalition that would toss Harper out of the Prime Minister’s Office.
I believe my...
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From Financial Insights to The Economic Analyst →
My brother’s blog continues to grow by leaps and bounds. I have posted on here repeatedly, trying to relay his genius to my readers.
Due to the explosive growth in his readership, Ben has launched a website to accommodate his writings.
I’ve included a link to the website in the title of this post. I would strongly recommend you add it to your favorites. You’ll thank me for it...
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Hold Your Horses... →
The title contains a link to a poll indicating the NDP has bumped the Liberals out of second place in this election.
It says the Tories, despite running a horrible campaign, sit at 43% but a majority is still not guaranteed and the Bloc Quebecois is in all kinds of trouble.
Now, before anyone gets carried away, it’s important to remember two undeniable truths about Canadian elections; the...
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Sun Media Rocks the Establishment →
I have never been able to understand the opposition of certain groups in Canada to Sun Media’s news channel.
Over the past 30 years the Canadian media landscape has been littered with cutbacks, downsizing and failure. There have only been two aggressive strides within the media firmament towards expansion.
The first was the National Post. The second is Sun News.
The same groups that...
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Federal English Debate Review
It’s hard to know where to begin.
In my opinion, Harper’s the winner because he stayed on message and remained Prime Ministerial.
These formats are usually rough on Harper. His debate performances in 2004 and 2008 were awful. He did much better in 2006 but tonight’s performance is far better than anything I’ve seen from him.
He seemed unflappable and confident....
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Get your Knee Pads on and Start Apologizing →
The Tories are handling the second of their Auditor General scandals remarkably well.
As the article I’ve linked to shows, they have offered a profuse apology to Sheila Fraser for misquoting her on a report about the G8 summit.
What remains unanswered is how the hell did someone in the Conservatives lift a quote from a 2004 Auditor’s Report about National Security after 9-11 and...
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The Stupidity of Harper's Inner Circle Knows No... →
Auditor General Sheila Fraser is Canada’s finest public servant currently working for the Canadian people.
The woman has been unflinching and uncompromising in her pursuit of a more open and efficient government.
Her investigations led to the downfall of Chretien then Martin over the sponsorship scandal.
Given her impeccable record, who would be dumb enough to pick a fight with her in the...
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“I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead...”
– Self Pity - D.H. Lawrence
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The Conservative Party of Canada: Belt and...
The federal Conservative campaign, much like the federal Conservative party, leaves me constantly befuddled.
The campaign is trying to get past two recent scandals.
The first being that one of Harper’s ex-advisers had five fraud convictions including an embezzlement charge yet was hired by the PMO anyway.
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Duncan and Jones: The Decay of the West
I have a bit of time between my two big commitments today to comment on events of the past week.
First, Dwight Duncan. Ontario’s Finance Minister recently said he’s convinced that Ontario won’t be the next Greece or Spain because of our exploding debt.
http://swo.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110401/duncan-ontario-debt-110401/20110401/?hub=SWOHome
If you boil down his...
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Today's Recap...
I’m in a much better mood today than when I did my post on the Elizabeth May and the federal leaders debate.
Unfortunately for her, I stand by my original position. No seat in the house, no podium in the debate.
My pleasant mood is from the Blue Jays season opener. As I write this, they’re winning 10-0. Wahoo!
Ok, so what happened today in the federal election. This article is...
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March 2011
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No Debate Seat for Green Party
I’ve had a long day. I’m tired and cranky.
As a result, this will be short and sweet.
Elizabeth May and the Green Party have no seat in the House of Commons. Thus, she is not allowed to participate in the leaders debate.
I don’t really see what’s controversial about any of this. It has been the standing rule for electoral debates forever.
In 1988, the Reform Party...
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Woe is Me...
So, the Tories have started their campaign the way they start every campaign under Stephen Harper; bumbling and stumbling out the gate.
In four days Harper managed to get caught in his own deceit about forming a coalition back in 2004, piss of the French (not like it matters), he had to fire Sebastien Togneri who is under RCMP investigation anyway and skewered his own tax philosophy by promising...
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Justin Trudeau Bails out Jason Kenney →
The article I’ve linked to needs no elaboration.
Justin Trudeau was concerned that the Conservative Government was being too harsh on cultures that practice honour killing, genital mutilation and other benevolent but misunderstood multicultural gems (I’m being sarcastic) by describing such acts as ‘barbaric’ in a pamphlet for new Canadians.
Understandably, Trudeau...