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The political game’s over when your friends start to laugh at you

I have frequently suggested in this space that the greatest impediment to a majority Liberal Government in the short term is chief Grit, Michael Ignatieff. His obvious challenge to becoming the next prime minister is his lack of “Canadian-ness.” Canadian-ness is something that we acquire over time, and something that cannot be acquired long-distance. Mr. Ignatieff is, no doubt, a Canadian in

Russ Campbell | posted 4 days ago

New York Gov. David Paterson gets his pension no matter what

No Matter What Happens, Paterson Gets His Pension by Ryan Knutson, ProPublica.org Gov. David Paterson of New York insisted this week that he wouldn't heed calls for his resignation, despite his administration's being roiled by two scandals. But no matter what he does, he is still entitled to his full pension once he retires. In fact, there is nothing any New York state employee can do that wou

Russ Campbell | posted 4 days ago

A so-so budget, but the best one we were likely to get

Now that the chatter over the federal budget has tapered off, I’ll add my two cents worth. As a conservative, I give the budget a failing grade. As a Conservative Party supporter, however, I’d say it’s about as good as we were likely to get. Simply put, no Tory minority government is ever going to be able to get a budget passed that is anything like what the party’s base will cheer about.

Russ Campbell | posted 5 days ago

A gender neutral anthem?

There has been a surprising amount of ink and airtime given to the line in yesterday’s throne speech which stated, “Our Government will also ask Parliament to examine the original gender-neutral wording of the national anthem.” The reference apparently is to the phrase, “…in all thy sons command …” [emphasis mine]. Many conservatives and Conservatives are taken aback and don’t wan

Russ Campbell | posted March 4th

Gordon Sinclair’s 1973 video, The Americans

Canadian journalist and broadcaster (CFRB and CBC’s Front Page Challenge), Gordon Sinclair (1900 – 1984) gives his view on Americans. This speech was published on June 5, 1973 following news that the American Red Cross had run out of money as a result of aid efforts for recent natural disasters. Sinclair’s recording would become his most famous radio editorial. I thought this would be a nic

Russ Campbell | posted March 4th

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Tom Brokaw explains Canada to Americans

The following video is well worth watching even if you already saw it during the Olympic Games. In it, Tom Brokaw, former anchor of the NBC Nightly News, explains the relationship between Canada and The United States. It was part of NBC’s Olympics coverage, and aired before the Olympic opening ceremonies on February 12. Brokaw’s reverent tone throughout the video and his spontaneous show of a

Russ Campbell | posted March 4th

Budget Day in Ottawa

Budget Day used to be a long day for me. We’d listen to the budget speech while a staff member wrote it down in short-hand. While this was going on, another staff member would type up a rough draft, which I’d go through and assign particular points affecting our business to an analyst who would crunch the numbers. By the time I left the office late that night, I’d have a preliminary asses

Russ Campbell | posted March 4th

Jane Taber: mischief maker

I see that CTV host and Globe and Mail columnist, Jane Taber, is up to her usual Tory bashing. This time she’s accusing the not-yet-given Tory throne speech of being plagiarized from one by former Australian prime minister John Howard. Why? Because the speeches apparently have similar titles. Not being able to attack today’s scheduled throne speech on the substance of its contents, Taber has

Russ Campbell | posted March 3rd

Throne speech: Can we expect a signal that we’ll fix our refugee system?

Parliament resumes today following a two-month break and the Conservatives are expected to make a speech from the throne that focuses on the economy and plans to reduce the federal deficit. The throne speech will be delivered by Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean, of course, but is expected lay out the Tory’s economic vision and its plans for job creation, restraining federal spending and innovation.

Russ Campbell | posted March 3rd

Ipsos Reid poll confirms Tory lead

Last week an EKOS poll had prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives at 33.4 per cent, a three percentage point lead over the Michael Ignatieff’s Liberals, which stood at 30.3 per cent. Yesterday, the National Post reported that an Ipsos Reid poll confirms the Tory lead and shows it has grown to 37 per cent of voters (Liberals 29 per cent), putting the Tories firmly in minority-government

Russ Campbell | posted March 2nd

Canada wins!

The past 17 days seem to have passed so quickly. Now it’s back to a normal schedule without the Olympic games to add that extra bit of daily excitement. The games were remarkable thanks to the approximately 2,600 athletes from 82 nations which participated in 86 events in fifteen disciplines. Spectacular. For the first time on home soil, we not only won gold, but we won gold a record number of

Russ Campbell | posted March 1st

Do the right thing minister: resign from cabinet

I guess I should get my two cents worth in about the February 19 Charlottetown, P.E.I. airport incident in which junior federal minister Helena Guergis is reported to have acted like a petulant child. The question now seems to be whether the minister of state for the status of women gets to keep her cabinet job. “She acted like a petulant child. I think she shoul

Russ Campbell | posted March 1st

Save our Olympic sports funding, call it arts and culture

The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics has been a wild ride for fans across the globe and especially here in Canada. I cannot think of any previous multi-day event that has so completely captured the attention of Canadians. Nor can I think of any event that has united Canadians to the degree these games have, at least, not since the 1972 Canada-Russia hockey series. It seems rather odd that our gover

Russ Campbell | posted February 28th

Jean Charest as Stephen Harper’s successor? I think not

What a silly joke it is to see Susan Riley of the Ottawa Citizen listing Quebec Premier Jean Charest as one of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s potential successors. She sees the Liberal premier as being “associated with moderate conservatism,” whatever that means. True, Mr. Charest was once the leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party, but he quit in 1998 to become leader of th

Russ Campbell | posted February 26th

Maxime Bernier takes on climate-change “alarmism”

It is refreshing to see a politician from a mainstream Canadian party make public his concern, as reported by the Globe and Mail, “that if climate scientists can’t even agree on what will happen over the next decade, how could anyone trust their predictions about what will happen a century from now.” “The debate over climate change, stifled for years by pol

Russ Campbell | posted February 24th

The last conservative hope for Canada?

I was saddened to read in this morning’s National Post, John Ivison’s column about the fading away of Preston Manning’s Reform Party. Ivison reminds us that only ten MPs remain of the 52 elected in 1993. That was the fateful election that sounded the death knell of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, which won a shocking two seats in that election. Of the ten MPs that remain, one�

Russ Campbell | posted February 23rd

Gotta walk the walk

The Canadian sports authorities who coined the slogan “Own the Podium” are discovering that’s its easier for them to talk the talk than it is for our elite athletes to walk the walk, jump, ski, skate, or slide. The Americans have the right idea: why bother to own the podium when you can just rent it 20, 30 or perhaps 40 times as needed. We are just past the halfway mark at the Vancouver 201

Russ Campbell | posted February 21st

Jack Layton wants more tax and spend

The country is swimming in debt and troubling jobless numbers, but the leader of the New Democrats, Jack Layton, wants Prime Minister Stephen Harper to cancel planned corporate tax cuts and use the savings to spend more to alleviate poverty. How typically socialist. Former Prime Minister Paul Martin’s Liberal government introduced scheduled corporate tax cuts back in the 2005, and the Harper g

Russ Campbell | posted February 19th

Bill Carroll leaves Newstalk 1010 (CFRB)

Newstalk 1010 (CFRB) is making more changes to its daytime on-air lineup. Bill Carroll, Newstalks’ 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. weekdays host, leaves the station today—or sort of. Carroll is leaving to become host of The Bill Carroll Show on KFI radio at Los Angeles, beginning February 22nd. He’s been with CFRB/Newstalk 1010 for about 12 years. Carroll will continue to be heard on Newstalk 1010�

Russ Campbell | posted February 19th

How soon the Brits forget

Over the course of the Second World War, 1.1-million Canadians served in our armed forces. Of these, more than 45,000 lost their lives and another 54,000 were wounded—this out of a total population of just over 11-million. And why were we there? To support the United Kingdom, that’s why. During the war, Canada was active in defending the shipping lanes in the North Atlantic and the Canadian

Russ Campbell | posted February 18th

Is anthropogenic global warming nothing short of a shoddy hoax?

As hell freezes over, here on earth we have more evidence emerging that anthropogenic global warming (AGW) may be nothing short of a shoddy hoax perpetrated by a coalition of scientists in search of funding, ex-politicians and wannabe celebrities in search of personal fame and fortune and left-wing globalists in search of a cause on which to hang a massive shift in wealth from richer to poorer nat

Russ Campbell | posted February 18th

When in Rome …

Go figure. In a country in which two-thirds of the residents consider English the primary language, and in front of an audience, most of whom understand English better than French, Vancouver’s 2010 Olympics opening ceremonies favoured English over French. Big deal, eh? Yet some have to complain. It is in the nature of Canada’s English-French sensibilities that each side complains when the oth

Russ Campbell | posted February 18th

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2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games opens in grand style but on a sad note

The death of Nodar Kumaritashvili, the 21-year-old Georgian luger who crashed during a training run earlier in the day, introduced a somber note to the opening ceremonies at Vancouver, but the ceremonies went off with only a minor glitch when one of the hydraulic props supporting the indoor caldron malfunctioned. So much talent on display, so much national pride, so many heroes on parade. Famous

Russ Campbell | posted February 13th

2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games

This is a big day for me: the beginning of the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver and 17 days of international competition in sports I do not usually watch. For most of the next 17 days, I’ll probably be glued to my television set rooting for our athletes. Until recent years, Canadian athletes seemed to have underperformed as a group at the Olympics, leaving many of their best performances to th

Russ Campbell | posted February 12th

Apparently having sex on one’s office couch is no long remarkable, eh Giambrone?

It perhaps tells a lot about our time that the uproar caused by the Toronto Ward 18 councillor Adam Giambrone’s clumsy admission that he had an “inappropriate relationship with a young woman” has made very little of the fact he allegedly had sex on a couch in his City Hall office. I’ve worked for or been closely involved in several Canadian and international corporations across several in

Russ Campbell | posted February 11th

Jane Taber’s jaundiced view of Tory’s political fortunes

New EKOS Research seat projections are characterized by Globe and Mail journalist/CTV host, Jane Taber, as poor news for the Conservative party of Canada. Similar views were much in evidence last evening on CTV’s daily political show, Power Play. Ms. Taber’s entire analysis of the projection centres around the fact the Tories would likely win a reduced minority if a general election were held

Russ Campbell | posted February 11th

Larceny on a grand scale

Back in mid-December, I wrote about a proper tongue-lashing Western industrial nations received from Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, when he addressed the recent Copenhagen climate change conference. Back then I wrote: “He’s concerned about our [Western democracies] ‘double standard.’ I’d be satisfied if this ruthless despot had a single standard that could bear scrutiny by any stand

Russ Campbell | posted February 11th

Water vapour and global warming

The debate over man-made global warming seems very much alive notwithstanding pronouncements from prominent global warming watchers that the facts supporting Anthropogenic Climate Change are irrefutable; the debate is over. Climate Change, we are told, will cause massive change to our planet—all negative. And we are rapidly running out of time. Climate scientists have based their predictions on

Russ Campbell | posted February 9th

Video: Interesting perspectives on the Tea Party Movement

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Russ Campbell | posted February 9th

Standing up for Canada

I wonder how long it will take for the Liberal Party of Canada or its leader, Michael Ignatieff, to stand up for Canada and respond to the slanderous allegations by Venezuela’s ambassador to the Organization of American States, Roy Chaderton Matos, that Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan are guilty of torture and assassinations. I doubt we’ll hear any defence of Canada from Jack Layton or the N

Russ Campbell | posted February 8th

Tea Party Convention

The Tea Party movement in the United States is probably the most significant new North American conservative movement in decades, and although I question its long-term significance, it does seem to be off to a fast start. In about a year of existence, the movement already has two notches on its belt to mark its relevance on the national stage: the highly successful September 12 demonstration in W

Russ Campbell | posted February 8th

Dirty tricks or simply Liberal and NDP politics as usual?

Not surprisingly, the New Democratic Party with help from their coalition friends, the Liberals, was apparently a major force—perhaps the force—behind the recent anti-prorogation rallies so prominently reported in the mainstream media. Browse through Rally Facts and one soon understands that the rallies were simply anti-Harper political rallies and prorogation per se had little to do with the

Russ Campbell | posted February 5th

Tories make deals, Grits make scandals

The former Tory and now Liberal MP Scott Brison was on TV earlier today whining about how bad a deal the Conservatives have made with the United States to avoid their Buy American protectionism. The deal should have been made more quickly, he claims, and we gave up too much to secure it. Pretty rich for a Grit—even this memory-challenged Tory-hater—to be criticizing any trade deal when the la

Russ Campbell | posted February 5th

Donolo tells Ignatieff: tack left

The Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is trying mightily to find issues that will add extra traction in the polls to that already gained from PM Stephen Harper’s prorogation of parliament. The professor finally has caught up to the Conservatives in the polls and is desperate to stay there. But he knows that, in the past, his every effort to sell himself to Canadian voters has been a miserable fai

Russ Campbell | posted February 5th

“Buy American” deal reached?

The National Post is reporting that Canadian authorities have reached a “resolution to the nearly year-long dispute on controversial Buy American provisions has been struck and could be formally announced later on Thursday.” However, the article on the Web site noted that: “A representative for International Trade Minister Peter Van Loan could not be immediately reached for comment.” If t

Russ Campbell | posted February 4th

Ignatieff shills for the pro-abortion lobby

The man who wants to be our next prime minister, Michael Ignatieff, has apparently become a shill for the pro-abortion lobby. “We don’t want to have women dying because of botched procedures. We don’t want to have women dying in misery,” Ignatieff is reported to have said on Tuesday following Parliament Hill meetings on international development. By “botched procedures” does the prof

Russ Campbell | posted February 3rd

Tax hike not necessary to balance budget

Whether intentional or not, parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page’s reports always seem to be more helpful to Michael Ignatieff and the opposition parties than to the Conservative government. Page warned us in November that Ottawa will be still be stuck with a deficit of $18.9 billion in 2014, even after the economy has fully recovered. I’m not sure what Page’s agenda is. His November pr

Russ Campbell | posted February 3rd

Dr. Tim Ball and the truth about climate change

Last night Michael Coren had Dr. Tim Ball on his CTS TV show for the full hour giving his views on man-made climate change/global warming. Dr. Ball has the bona fides to talk about global warming. He has a B.A. from the University of Winnipeg, an M.A. from the University of Manitoba in 1970 in Geography, and a Ph.D. in geography from the University of London, England in 1983. In his doctorial th

Russ Campbell | posted February 3rd

Child-care: another Liberal tax and spend program

The Liberals under Michael Ignatieff are proving themselves to be the same old Liberals we got rid of, thanks to the unite-the-right initiative. Tax and spend, that’s the only principle they consistently endorse. And Ignatieff is just another in a long line of Grit leaders who promise one thing and deliver another. MP Gerard Kennedy, the Liberal infrastructure critic recently indicated his supp

Russ Campbell | posted February 3rd

Tories 3 Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand 0

Back in mid-January I wrote about the Conservative Party of Canada being harassed by The Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand. At that time I pointed to two cases where Elections Canada had lost in court to the CPC. Well, according to John Ivison over at the National Post the score is now 3 to zip for the CPC versus Marc Mayrand and Elections Canada. Conservatives won in their two so-called “in

Russ Campbell | posted February 2nd