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Well this was a precedent?

I like the K-W and London comparison. London has the old university and the old industry, but even while it's a major medical centre, I don't think it has any thriving industries really. But it may be even more useful to compare Kitchener and Waterloo directly. The latter has both universities...

I just finished reading a fascinating book about the Weimar Republic called "The Death of Democracy": https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/books/review/benjamin-carter-hett-death-of-democracy.html The major point was of course that business executives and the conservative establishment aided...

What bias? Anyway, not interested in continuing when your discussion amounts to a serious of rhetorical questions.

Right, nothing changed during centuries of foreign rule under the Mongols and Great Khans and later the Manchus of the Qing Dynasty. Chinese history is more an ebb and flow of centralization and collapse then anything else. Currently the country is run by cadres of party kleptocrats, untold...

This Gordon Campbell?

Also, Alberta's fiscal problems have a fairly simple solution or at least partial remedy. It's called a provincial sales tax.

I don’t see why having the same party affiliation implies some need to publicly agree on everything. She’s not a cabinet minister.

I think her dissension without defection is actually a lot healthier for parliamentary democracy, not unlike in the UK where “party discipline” isn’t the same kind of thing. No doubt she won’t be the last.

Mainly because GM bought out the outstanding stake in Saab and proceeded to run it into the ground (and then blocked a Chinese bid for ownership).

The problem with Andrew Scheer is that he's just yet another careerist who barely ever had any kind of career outside politics. Basically he's just one of those poli sci major types who got involved in the campus party association and never left (you know, not the ones who are doing their...

Very interesting: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/11/22/amanda-simard-ford-french_a_23597047/

Buses always get ignored.

If a Line 2 extension to STC ends up costing upwards of $4bn or more, it stands to reason that any ridiculous line to Pickering would be over $10bn. Maybe (probably) more. Either way, it's like they don't get that the provincial government already controls Metrolinx, which already operates heavy...

How does it protect the accuser to lie about the reasons for the "resignation"? I wonder who the next to fall will be.

I very much doubt there was any prospect for Faith Goldy to receive over 10% of the vote, let alone 5%, barring the "Press" becoming overtly pro-Nazi.

It's far too much. And more than the Nazis in 1928...

#thirdplace Sorry, couldn't resist, but it's not evident that this was ever remotely winnable for Vuong, boosterism or not.

If you hadn't already, I'd say you jumped the shark with this comment.

Well-connected, indeed, but I don't know that Tory has ever shown himself to be a "deep thinking fighter" at any point in his political (or business?) career. Nevertheless, I wish I shared your optimism that populism is a mere experiment that can or will subside. We're not quite Weimar...