James O'Grady
I am the founder of Unpublished Media Inc., a company I started in 2012. I am also a communications professional and community activist, living in Nepean, Ontario. And, I am a hockey goaltender, political hack and most importantly, an advocate for grassroots, participatory democracy at all levels of government.
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Getting public consultation right continues to frustrate governing bodies in Ottawa no matter who...
Congratulations to the Ottawa Redblacks and team leader, veteran quarterback Henry Burris for...
The Green Party of Canada is a not a radical, extreme, left-wing party as some on the extreme...
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National Committee Chair, has resigned, effective...
What should happen now? Wikileaks email scandal shows DNC actively campaigned against Bernie Sanders
Yesterday, Wikileaks released a series of emails Russian hackers acquired from the DNC (Democratic...
With three eagles circling above Parliament Hill (too high to photograph), the Ottawa Valley...
Comments by James O'Grady
None of those things happened when he worked for Harper, so why would they happen now? He is super qualified. I’m confident he will do well. Vanier is a likely riding as you note. FYI—If you log-in first Peter, your comments will be logged under your profile and immediately approved. You still have access I believe.
Thanks for the feedback.
Yes, I think the Ontario Greens will get squeezed this election. The Liberals and the NDP, with new leaders, are bound to do better. Plus, people like me who have left the party because they are now violating their values/principles with ill thought out policy, in particular their affordable housing policy that threatens urban forests and family neighborhoods acorss the province, is a complete violation of the party's value of Ecological Wisdom. Suffice to say: Its not ecologically wise to cut down the urban forest to build affordable housing. Nor is it wise to destroy family neighborhoods. This is especially true when we have contaminated properties throughout all of our cities which can be cleaned and redeveloped. Build new communities for these people on cleaned earth. Don't cut down any trees, and don't upend our neighbourhoods to be meet an artificial crisis created by poor federal immigration policy.
I’m not as worried about the tariffs as some. We just need to find new biz partners, which can’t be too difficult given the resources we have to sell. Everybody wants them. So, let’s not get our knickers in a knot over it. Let Trump place a 25% tariff on Canadian products and let’s see how the average American consumer likes paying for his tax cuts for the rich. It won’t take long for them to start baulking. In the mean time let’s go find new trading partners who actually want our products…
Cool. I hadn’t heard that story. Thanks for sharing.