Category Archives: IsCanadaBetterOff

“Kick me like you did before, I can’t even feel the pain no more”

I’m having just the best time of my life debating my friend, Maikeru, in the comments of this post. It really is turning out to be one of the great joys of my life. You see, on Friday the Conservative Harper Government (which I think I’m legally required to call them) was defeated on a [...]

Five years later: Is Canada better off? (Part 1 in a series)

This month marks five years since Stephen Harper came to power on January 23, 2006. Five years of Conservative government. Five years on, are we better off? Often, when people try to assess whether or not they’re better off now than five years ago, they get it all wrong. People like to imagine a “golden [...]