Canadian conservatives see themselves as the real victims. Here’s why they’re wrong.

Published March 10, 2015

What’s the one takeaway from last weekend’s Manning Centre Networking Conference — the biggest annual gathering of Canadian conservatives? By their own accounts, conservatives appear to see themselves as the *real* victims. The first sign of this came before anyone finished their morning coffee, during Rex Murphy’s welcoming remarks. In a fire and brimstone speech attacking “diversity” […]

Hollywood, beware! Conservatives have a plan to recapture pop culture

Published March 2, 2014

Hollywood, beware! Conservatives are mad as heck that corporate executives and other “heroes” of free enterprise are mocked incessantly in popular culture — and they’ve got a strategy to make things right. That’s the message delegates of the Manning Networking Conference heard this weekend in Ottawa, just before liberal Hollywood converged upon Beverly Hills Sunday […]

Social conservatives show their colours at Canada’s big blue weekend

Published March 1, 2014

Social conservatives are well-represented at the Manning Networking Conference, a two-day gabfest tostrategize about “next steps” for the conservative movement. Check out these booths: After getting a receptive audience at the Conservative Party convention in Calgary in October, the group weneedalaw.ca brought their show to the Ottawa event. Here’s their pitch for a law to restrict abortion: “Canada is […]

3 things you need to know about conservative gabfest keynote

Published February 28, 2014

When right-wing writer Mark Steyn takes the stage Saturday to close out the two-day Manning Networking Conference, he’ll be carrying plenty of baggage on stage with him. Let’s set aside the fact that Steyn will be the 63rd guy (compared to 12 women panelists) speaking at the gathering to strategize about the “next steps for […]

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Canadian conservatives see themselves as the *real* victims. Here’s why they’re wrong.

Hollywood, beware! Conservatives have a plan to recapture pop culture

Social conservatives show their colours at Canada’s big blue weekend

3 things you need to know about conservative gabfest keynote

Canadian conservatives see themselves as the real victims. Here’s why they’re wrong.