social conservatism
‘I don’t hide who I am’: Leslyn Lewis’s pitch to conservative voters
She’s the first-ever woman of colour vying to lead the Tories and her platform emphasizes fairness within the Conservative Party, a pushback against political correctness and a repeal of Liberal policies
6 things we’ve learned about Jason Kenney and the Alberta UCP
The events of the campaign revealed Kenney’s wonkish side while making it clear that investigations would dog a UCP government from Day One
Sam Oosterhoff, boy politician, might just be for real
Ontario’s youngest-ever MPP is pious, bookish and increasingly cocky. He’s precisely the sort of disruptor angry conservatives crave.
Stockwell Day, so-con icon, bows out
From the outset, Day’s religious streak bothered other conservatives, including his future boss
Politics big-city elites, you say. Sound familiar at all?
It is clear that you can’t win in modern politics by having evidence or good ideas on your side
Notes for a column, never written
WELLS: Isn’t Harper-style conservatism increasingly isolated in the world?
“Serious conservative parties simply cannot shy away from values questions”
That piece of mine about social conservatism quotes from a 2003 Civitas speech by Stephen Harper. The only complete, non-firewalled online copy of it that I can find is at Cannabis Culture magazine. Insert joke here.
Hey look: It’s morning in Harper’s Canada
From the print edition, a longer and I suspect more controversial piece than you’d seen from me lately, connecting a bunch of dots in the social-conservative corner of the Harper 3-D Vulcan chess board. I’ll be adding context, extra information, documents that didn’t get into the final article or that I refer to only in passing, on this blog over the next several days.
Harper’s hard right turn
Social conservatism is on the rise in Ottawa, and across Canada