by Admin Team | Sep 9, 2015 | Len's General Blog
Yesterday Prime Minister Harper announced that a re-elected Conservative government would provide more support to hardworking Canadian families saving for their children’s post-secondary education. This is great news for thousands of parents in Edmonton-Strathcona...
by thomadmin | Feb 15, 2015 | Len's General Blog
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the day the Maple Leaf became Canada’s flag. I was too young to remember the flag debate. As an historian reading about it and talking to people who remember it the debate always fascinated me. Canada had been informally...
by thomadmin | Oct 23, 2014 | Len's General Blog
This is a Facebook post from October 22, 2014, the day a terrorist attacked Parliament Hill and killed Corporal Nathan Cirillo. In the future, we will have the perspective to comprehend what has happened today on Parliament Hill. For today, we feel shocked that the...
by thomadmin | Oct 4, 2014 | Len's General Blog
Fifteen years ago this week the West Wing premiered on NBC. For those of us that live and breathe politics it was candy. I miss it. Even today there are complex political questions that politicos answer by reference to a particular episode of West Wing. The show was...
by thomadmin | Aug 4, 2014 | Len's General Blog
One hundred years ago today the First World War began. Many historians view the cause of the war as the competition between national interests in Europe. While national ambitions may have provided background, I believe the war was a failure of the political leadership...
by thomadmin | Jul 28, 2014 | Len's General Blog
My political philosophy has three core beliefs: fiscal conservatism, social progressivism and Canadian nationalism. I will devote a blog entry to each. In this blog I will briefly discuss why I am a fiscal conservative. Fiscal conservatives advocate balanced budgets,...
