It’s difficult not to think that the timing of the release of the Deloitte financial audit of Atawapiskat was calculated in its anticipation of a potential backlash against Spence and, by association, #idlenomore. The audit prompted Spence to shut down media relations, a closed door thus leading to the media’s usual
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Politics and Entertainment: Harper May Have his Coalition but he doesn’t have Canada
Stephen Harper keeps support of ‘coalition’ of voters: poll “Among the findings in the Dec. 7-12 Ipsos Reid poll: * 44 per cent of Canadians think Harper’s majority government is “working well,” while 56 per cent don’t think it is. * 45 per cent like the way Harper is “handling his
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Stephen Harper keeps support of ‘coalition’ of voters: poll
* 44 per cent of Canadians think Harper’s majority government is “working well,” while 56 per cent don’t think it is.
* 45 per cent like the way Harper is “handling his job as prime minister,” while 55 per cent don’t.
* 44 per cent share Harper’s “values” on where Canada should be headed, compared to 56 per who don’t.
* 48 per cent think Harper’s “approach to politics” has been good for Canada, while 52 per cent don’t think so.
* 44 per cent think Harper’s approach to politics has been good for Parliament, while 56 per cent don’t think so.
* 43 per cent think Harper should run for office again in the next election, set for 2015, while 57 per cent think he should quit.”
— | Stephen Harper keeps support of ‘coalition’ of voters: poll
Yes, he has his coalition of old white men living in rural Canada, much of the immigrant “market” of suburbia, and the #BigOil country of Western Canada. But, as the poll makes clear, he still hasn’t got the majority of Canadians – which means he does not really have a fundamentally democratic mandate. He rules only because of flawed electoral and riding systems. See my post on this issue elsewhere on this blog:
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Politics and Entertainment: Harper May Have his Coalition but he doesn’t have Canada
Stephen Harper keeps support of ‘coalition’ of voters: poll “Among the findings in the Dec. 7-12 Ipsos Reid poll: * 44 per cent of Canadians think Harper’s majority government is “working well,” while 56 per cent don’t think it is. * 45 per cent like the way Harper is “handling
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#HarperRegime‘s neoliberal immigration policy: we help only those who can help us, not those who need help. bit.ly/THkytI #cdnpoli— Barry Cameron (@AppalledBC) January 2, 2013
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Continue reading#HarperRegime‘s neoliberal immigration policy: we help only those who can help us, not those who need help. bit.ly/THkytI #cdnpoli
— Barry Cameron (@AppalledBC) January 2, 2013
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#HarperRegime‘s neoliberal immigration policy: we help only those who can help us, not those who need help. bit.ly/THkytI #cdnpoli — Barry Cameron (@AppalledBC) January 2, 2013
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Premiers Goal to Increase CPP both Pragmatic and Desirable
“Flaherty said Friday the federal government is concerned about increasing CPP contributions at the current time because it would slap an additional financial burden on employers during fragile economic times, potentially threatening their ability to hire workers. The federal government can’t unilaterally change the CPP; amending it requires the backing
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Premiers Goal to Increase CPP both Pragmatic and Desirable
“Flaherty said Friday the federal government is concerned about increasing CPP contributions at the current time because it would slap an additional financial burden on employers during fragile economic times, potentially threatening their ability to hire workers. The federal government can’t unilaterally change the CPP; amending it requires the backing
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Premiers Goal to Increase CPP both Pragmatic and Desirable
“Flaherty said Friday the federal government is concerned about increasing CPP contributions at the current time because it would slap an additional financial burden on employers during fragile economic times, potentially threatening their ability to hire workers. The federal government can’t unilaterally change the CPP; amending it requires the backing of two-thirds of the provinces representing two-thirds of the population. “This is not the time to put another burden on employers and dampen employment prospects for Canadians. That’s my view. Not everyone agrees with that view,” Flaherty told reporters Friday in Ottawa.
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: The Precedent Setting Nature of the Robocalls Case is the Legal Issue
In my view, the outcome of this case hinges on the nature of any legal precedent that could be set by a final ruling. Judge Richard Mosley is no doubt fully aware of this possibility. In that respect, I don’t think the six ridings in question will be getting new elections. And
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: The Precedent Setting Nature of the Robocalls Case is the Legal Issue
In my view, the outcome of this case hinges on the nature of any legal precedent that could be set by a final ruling. Judge Richard Mosley is no doubt fully aware of this possibility. In that respect, I don’t think the six ridings in question will be getting new elections. And
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: The Precedent Setting Nature of the Robocalls Case is the Legal Issue
In order for the results in these ridings to be set aside and a new election called, the plaintiffs must prove that they were electorally disenfranchised. I think this is the real and only burden of proof. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that there was indeed a systematic, patterned effort to prevent people from voting in many riding, but all of the plaintiffs before the court did in fact vote despite these efforts. This was one of Hamilton’s key argument yesterday, and it’s persuasive. None of the eight plaintiffs was disenfranchised – which doesn’t mean other people in these particular ridings and others weren’t, but those other people are not before the court. It would be difficult for any judge, in other words, to set a precedent for setting aside an election on the basis that there was an effort to prevent some constituents from voting. Some concrete evidence that someone actually was would seem to be required. Had the plaintiffs themselves standing before Judge Mosley actually been prevented, a precedent setting ruling could be made with some legal comfort.
Loss of ‘one voter’ enough to overturn election outcomes, robocalls hearing told
“A judge can overturn the outcome of an election if he believes “at least one voter” in the riding did not vote as a result of electoral fraud, a lawyer for Elections Canada argued in Federal Court on Friday.
“As Shrybman concluded his case, Justice Richard Mosley asked whether he agreed with Elections Canada counsel Barbara McIsaac, who last week argued that the Supreme Court’s recent Opitz decision showed that to overturn an election, he would have to show a voter in each riding who didn’t vote as a result of the calls.
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Politics and Entertainment: This will be the Regime’s Primary Alibi followed by the EU crisis when the Canadian Economy Sinks into Recession
Canada faces near-recession if U.S. plunges over ‘cliff,’ Carney warns
Let us not forget, however, that the Canadian economy in and of itself has not been managed well by this extreme neoliberal government that has consistently placed investors, the financial sector, natural resource exports, and free trade before the real industrial domestic economy. wage fairness, and job creation for the middle and working classes. A 163% household debt/GDP ratio is also indeed worrisome as is the fact that whatever equity most Canadians have is inextricably bound to their still mortgaged houses. Get ready.
Politics and Entertainment: This will be the Regime’s Primary Alibi followed by the EU crisis when the Canadian Economy Sinks into Recession
Canada faces near-recession if U.S. plunges over ‘cliff,’ Carney warns “Carney warns of risk from U.S. Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney has warned that a failure by U.S. politicians to reach a new budget agreement before time runs out would push Canada close to another recession… the bank warned
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: This will be the Regime’s Primary Alibi followed by the EU crisis when the Canadian Economy Sinks into Recession
Canada faces near-recession if U.S. plunges over ‘cliff,’ Carney warns “Carney warns of risk from U.S. Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney has warned that a failure by U.S. politicians to reach a new budget agreement before time runs out would push Canada close to another recession… the bank warned
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Neoliberal Privatizing of School-yard Play
Capitalism Reaches its Ugly Claw into Recess This is appalling: capitalist invasion by way of neoliberal privatising of playtime at recess and noon. Isn’t it bad enough that we have a class division for families outside the school yard between the haves and the have-nots? Do we have to commodify
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Neoliberal Privatizing of School-yard Play
Capitalism Reaches its Ugly Claw into Recess This is appalling: capitalist invasion by way of neoliberal privatising of playtime at recess and noon. Isn’t it bad enough that we have a class division for families outside the school yard between the haves and the have-nots? Do we have to commodify
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Neoliberal Privatizing of School-yard Play
Capitalism Reaches its Ugly Claw into RecessThis is appalling: capitalist invasion by way of neoliberal privatising of playtime at recess and noon. Isn’t it bad enough that we have a class division for families outside the school yard between the…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Reading Economic Health into the Recent StatsCan Jobs Data is An Exercise in Fantasy
Reading Economic Health into the Recent StatsCan Jobs Data is An Exercise in Fantasy Here’s the reality in that data: 1) As Derek Holt points out, there is no hours worked increase. That remains static. But it is hours worked that “drive incomes, not body count.” Holt speculates that the already
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