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Interview with NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair's Beard

April 2nd, 2012

Ever on the cutting edge of Canadian federal politics, the Propagandist dispatched intrepid cub reporter Lyle Neff to Stornoway recently to interview an important new figure on the parliamentary scene: NDP leader Thomas Mulcair's celebrated facial hair.

THE PROPAGANDIST. So, Thomas Mulcair’s beard. You’ve recently experienced a burst of new growth.

THOMAS MULCAIR’S BEARD. Why yes, thanks. It was a tough leadership contest. Very hairy for a while there.

THE PROP. Not to mention your party’s spurt in Quebec at the last election.

THOS. MULCAIR’S BEARD (visibly bristling). You sure you want to use that language?

THE PROP. No need to be prickly, sir. We just want to know why people feel so warm and fuzzy about you.

TCB. Well. It all started with my idea to trim the policy committ--

THE PROP. Wait. Sorry to interrupt, Thomas Mulcair’s beard. My editor insists on speaking to-- Jon? What can it be? Wait. Calm down! You say -- (lengthy pause)

TCB. Oh, this is intoler--

THE PROP (laughs). Horrible! Close shave indeed! Thanks Jon, I’ll ask him now. (audibly tents fingers) So... Thomas Mulcair’s beard. Seems there’s a whisker of suspicion about your campaign tactics. Something about... free moustache waxings in...More >>

Canadian Conservatives Win. Lefties Lick Wounds

May 2nd, 2011

The shell-shocked ramblings of Canadian leftists in the wake of a new majority government of political conservatives is amusing to see. The recognition of impressive gains by the socialist New Democratic Party has done little to numb the pain, since lefties will have less power than when they worked under a minority regime.

While I've been on the right side of the political continuum for some years, I still count among my friends a number of honorable lefty Canucks, several of whom contribute to The Propagandist. Notably, several of these progressive chums do not identify with the NDP; they like the part of the NDP that sticks up for workers and families, but hate the prominent anti-imperialist wing that thinks its OK to abandon poor victims of the Taliban or Hugo Chavez, so long as it upsets the USA and NATO. Socialist unity and support for universal human rights isn't supposed to end at the borders of the world's most developed nations.

If I gloat a little, it is at the expense of the self-serving twits who the true progressives of The Propagandist wouldn't be caught dead with.

First up, a bit of poetry from the...More >>