Latest posts tagged with #HowardAnglin on Bluesky
"[T]o get a sense of why Diefenbaker and so many others fought so hard, try to imagine a new conservative government proposing to reverse the decision, replacing the now-familiar red and white flag with the old Red Ensign or the Union Jack. The reaction today would be as angrily uncomprehending […]
#HowardAnglin: "I was disappointed I had to wait five minutes for a table at my local cafe today. I was disappointed they were sold out of babka buns. I was disappointed it rained on my walk home. I condemn the unjust arrest, imprisonment, and sentencing of Jimmy Lai by the thuggish PRC regime." […]
#HowardAnglin: "One final thought on Carney's Davos wordfest, which occurred to me while thinking about his confused appeal to Havel (see long, earlier Tweet). For all Carney's talk about the importance of bravely "naming reality" he doesn't actually name names. He says: "The powerful have their […]
Howard Anglin (@howardanglin): "It’s the government’s job to win the support of the House, not the House’s job to prop up a government that isn’t willing to do what it takes to secure majority support. If there’s an election, it’s because the Liberals want one or they weren’t willing to do […]
"2. Byelections are volatile things that often throw up strange results, but this one was as straightforward as it gets. Despite the meddling of the long ballotters and a high-profile local conservative veteran running as an independent and directly challenging Poilievre, if not from his Right […]
"For the Boomer comfortably retired in Kelowna, childless in Summerhill, or “elbows up” in a mortgage-free Queen Anne home in the Glebe, the election was about Trump and not much else."
"If you are in your 20s or 30s, however, your priorities in the election were the cost of housing, the cost […]
