Leftist Jab: Brent Rathgeber Denounces Cabinet Perks as Cover Against...
Rathgeber: attempting to avoid the wrath of Jason Kenney As backbenchers go, Brent Rathgeber certainly has political acumen. The current chatter in Canadian politics is that Brent Rathgeber is hurting...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: The coda to Oda was writ bright with orange juice
Bev Oda, foreground, enjoys a celebratory dinner at the Savoy, her orange juice just visible under her right arm. Departing Canadian politicians may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Ms. Oda in...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Pure milk or pure ideology? Alberta MP attacks supply management
Milking it for all that it’s worth – not how it’s done any more. Below: Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber. ST. ALBERT, Alberta Brent Rathgeber, Member of Parliament for Edmonton St. Albert, has...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. - pogge offers up the definitive response to the Cons’ attempt to encourage a sell-off of First Nations reserve land: When you look past the paternalistic argument...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: If Alberta’s Tories loved Peter Lougheed so much, why do they...
Linda Duncan at the Alberta NDP’s 50th annual convention over the weekend. Below: Ralph Goodale, Peter Lougheed. We have 28 federal electoral districts in Alberta of which 27 elected members of the...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Motion 312 and reproductive rights: pay attention to what...
What? What? I’m pro-choice and pro-life, Edmonton St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber seems to say in this shot grabbed from his website. Below: Kitchener Centre MP Stephen Woodworth. In this era of routine...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Stephen Maher follows up on this week’s Supreme Court ruling on Etobicoke Centre by pointing out where we should be most worried about our electoral system:...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: There is a God: Merit Contractors, advocates of Bill C-377,...
Tory MP wonders about Bill C-377: “Is anybody really interested in breaching Sally the Receptionist’s privacy because she earns 40k answering the phones at the Union Hiring Hall?” Below: Stephen...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: On predetermination
Shorter Brent Rathgeber: What government backbencher would dare consider asking the Parliamentary Budget Officer for information if he can’t suppress any inconvenient findings? I’d rather stay...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on the difference between genuine accountability and the rather more barbaric version on offer from the Cons and the Sask Party. While there are too many examples of the latter to list, I’ll...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis: Conservative MP’s Bill C-461...
By: Canadian Journalists for Free Expression | Press Release: TORONTO – One of Canada’s leading free speech groups is warning that a low-profile bill – coming up for second reading debate in the House...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Did he jump or was he pushed? Outspoken Alberta Conservative...
Your blogger with Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber, who is a Tory no more, back in the day when he still was. TORONTO From Rob Ford to Brent Rathgeber in a single day – talk about going from the...
View ArticleLeftist Jab: Canadian Olympic Committee To Start New Campaign Called "Own The...
Because Dimitri Soudas has terrible judgment. Backbench Spring MP Brent Rathgeber has quit the Conservative caucus. While the Tories are mired in scandal after scandal, the watering down of Mr....
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Another blow for Harper as Conservative MP quits...
Conservative MP Brent Rathgeber (Photo: Alberta Diary) Conservative MPs on the House of Commons’s ethics committee amended Brent Rathgeber’s private member’s bill seeking salary disclosures. He’d...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: There Is No "Rathgeber" In "Team"
Frankly, quitting over a crappy little Private Member’s bill that was little more than a gratuitous shot at the public doesn’t impress me. But, as usual when we have these Tory on Tory struggles, I...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: More Cracks in the Conservative Monolith
Hannah Thibedeau’s report gladdened my heart this morning as she detailed the events behind federal Conservative M.P. Brent Rathgeber’s decision to leave the Harper caucus over changes to his private...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: How Brent Rathgeber changed Edmontons...
TweetEdmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber unleashed a political storm last night when he announced on Twitter that he is leaving the Conservative Party of Canada caucus. Initially citing a “a lack of...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: On The Politically Compliant
Woke up this morning thinking of our friends in the animal kingdom, and their affinity for their counterparts in Ottawa. Recommend this Post
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: In Praise of Political Cartoonists
Where would we be without their pithy insights? Recommend this Post
View Article350 or bust: Ottawa: Buying Ads Is Easier Than Rooting Out CPC Corruption
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate’er it touches. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab What a week in “Ottawapiskat”! In Canada’s capital city the embattled government of Stephen Harper is...
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