Making Sense with Nicholls

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Comrade Miller strikes

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After six weeks of mounting garbage, union-boss bullying and cancelled events, Toronto Mayor David Miller caved in and gave striking city wo...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Motorhome Diaries speak out

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A couple of postings ago , I noted that American libertarians Jason Talley and Pete Eyre of Motorhome Diaries were not permitted into Canad...

Media Alert

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I am scheduled to be a guest on Michael Harris Live ( CFRA Ottawa) this afternoon at approximately 2:45 PM to talk about the Liberty Summe...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

A song for freedom

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Shakedown , Ezra Levant's impassioned take on how Human Rights Commissions are underming our individual rights, has inspired lots of pe...
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Free Advice for the Tories

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Kory Teneycke stepped down as Director of Communications for Prime Minister Harper today. So over at the Women's Post, I posted some fr...
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Monday, July 27, 2009

Can libertarians and liberals get along?

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One of the speakers at this year's Liberty Summer Seminar was the Cato Institute's Will Wilkinson , who made an intriguing argument...
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Stopping freedom at the border

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One interesting sidebar to the Liberty Summer Seminar this year was that a couple of scheduled speakers were denied entry at the Canadian/Am...

Liberty in the summer

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Had a great time at the Liberty Summer Seminar. Yes enough rain fell during the weekend to encourage talk of building an ark, but that didn...
Friday, July 24, 2009

Bloc-ing the Liberals

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CFRB talk show host John Moore has an interesting column in the National Post today suggesting the Conservative Party is essentially implem...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Cat Attack

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Rondi Adamson has an idea for an attack ad which is sure to scratch and claw away at the credibility of Liberal leader Michael "The R...
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Roughing it for freedom

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Here's my latest column in the Sun Media chain. It's about how I found freedom in the wilderness, or at least what I consider to be ...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Fiscal conservatives MIA

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Kevin Gaudet of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation has a great column in the National Post today, asking the key question: Where did all the...
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Monday, July 20, 2009

Posting at the Post

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FYI -- The National Post will now be posting stuff from my blog over at its online Full Comment section.
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The final frontier

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As we all know, this year marks the 40 th anniversary of one of the most incredible achievements in human history. But I don't want to ...
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Liberty in the summer

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Just a reminder: The Liberty Summer Seminar is almost here! Go here to register.
Sunday, July 19, 2009

Is big government progressive?

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A couple of days ago the Toronto Star ran a column by Professor Arthur Haberman who was lamenting the decline of "progressive" co...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Politics of Civility

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Recently, Professor Geoffrey Stevens wrote a column in the Guelph Mercury which went after Prime Minister Harper for his lack of "civi...
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Dissecting a political video

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Some guy (gal?) who calls himself (herself) "Tory Boy" has produced a little video to defend the Conservative government. It's...
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Friday, July 17, 2009

Helping so-cons win

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The Canadian Centre for Policy Studies has organized an event called "Campaign Essentials for Social Conservatives". Scheduled to ...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

My China syndrome

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The Sing Tao Daily, a Chinese language newspaper recently wrote a story on me, which you can read here -- if you can read Chinese. I can...
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Gerry Nicholls
Gerry Nicholls is a communications consultant and writer who has been called a “political warrior” a “brilliant strategist” and one of the “canniest political observers in Canada.” He has worked as a consultant in both the United States and Canada and was formerly a senior officer in the National Citizens Coalition. A regular columnist with the Ottawa Hill Times, his work has also appeared in the Globe and Mail, the National Post and in the Sun Media chain; and he has appeared on countless TV and radio public affairs programs. He is the author of the book, Loyal to the Core, Harper, Me and the NCC.
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