The biggest pieces of Bill C-36 are well described elsewhere in the media, and there isn’t any real surprise to it. The Harper Government has more or less just resurrected the old environment. As with all such things the devil is in the details. The odd little lines where
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The Cracked Crystal Ball II: Apparently MacKay Missed The Point …
When the Supreme Court of Canada struck down Canada’s prostitution laws last year, it did so on the basis that the existing laws placed sex workers in unreasonably dangerous situations. Quite appropriately, the Supreme Court gave the government a year to table new legislation. Today, Justice Minister Peter MacKay
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Harper: A Decade In And He Still Doesn’t Get It
Stephen Harper has been in power for the high side of a decade. That’s a long time. Most Prime Ministers by this point in their careers have figured out that the foreign affairs portfolio is a tricky one. When you are a smallish nation like Canada, you get much better
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Harper Describes Himself
One of the more ludicrous things the Harper Government has been pursuing is creating a “monument to the victims of communism”. A more cold-war propaganda-esque move is almost unimaginable. But, in Harper’s speech at a fundraiser yesterday, he opened his mouth and promptly engaged in self-description. In language reminiscent
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Nasty, Just Plain Nasty
It’s not like it comes as a big surprise that the Harper Government is nasty. But the extent of their vileness continues expand. First, the Harper Government seems to have decided to shut down basic literacy programs across Canada. The claims of the Harperites on this matter are the usual
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Health Insurance Is Becoming A Scam
I have long been suspicious of health insurance plans of any sort. Even short term health insurance for travel seems to be written in such a way that it is weighted quite firmly in favour of the insurer than the insured. Recently, three cases in Canada came to light that
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: On RuPaul And The Use Of Language
I’ve seriously tried to stay away from the fracas that has developed around RuPaul’s use of the word “Tranny” (and a couple of other terms which I think are both denigrating and offensive to transitioning transsexuals that I will not repeat here because they are straight out of the fantasy
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: The Next Step In Harper’s Police State
So, Harper wants to connect the CRA with the RCMP. Chantal Bernier, Canada’s interim privacy commissioner, says she is concerned by the government’s proposal to allow Canada Revenue Agency officials to voluntarily hand over taxpayer information to police if they have reason to believe such information is evidence of a
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: A Sensible Approach
Justin Trudeau has received a significant amount of flak over his recent decree that incoming Liberal MPs after the next election will be expected to be explicitly pro-choice on the abortion issue. This weekend, the Liberal Party released a very clear-headed e-mail: “I had an extraordinary example in a father
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: TFWP: Yet Another Reason To Shut It Down
The consequences of the Harper Government’s widening of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program over the last several years keeps going from bad to worse. At first it was employers choosing to hire TFWs over Canadians. Then we started finding out that not only were the companies forcing them to living
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: A Modest Proposal On Firearms
For years the argument has been made that regulations related to firearms are just a means for the government to subjugate the populace. However, I have never heard any of these same people object to the reality that the same government insists that they register their car, carry insurance on
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: On "Matters Of Conscience"
So, one of the Roman Catholic Archbishops thinks that Justin Trudeau’s recent implementation of party policy needs a rethink. Collins pointedly mentioned that there are two million Catholics in his diocese. He said he encourages them to get involved in politics as both voters and candidates. “It is not right
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: PMSH: Yesterday’s Lies Are Inoperative
So, last week’s lies about the interactions between the Chief Justice of Canada’s Supreme Court are now inoperative. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has revised his version of events around what he and his office first characterized as an “inappropriate” and “inadvisable” phone call by the country’s top judge over a
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Bill C-23 Passed, Stinkers Included
Whatever amendments were made to Bill C-23, they didn’t address much of anything that I raised as problematic in my earlier analysis of the first draft tabled in the House of Commons. Full text here. Never before have I seen a piece of legislation so clearly designed to “stack the
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: CPC Lied To Elections Canada On RoboCalls?
The corruption that is the CPC’s actions in the 2011 election continues to fester. The most recent instalment comes to us via Stephen Maher’s latest column. In an email May 1, party lawyer Arthur Hamilton told Elections Canada that Conservative call centre workers were not advising voters that Elections Canada
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Harper’s Attempt To Politicize The Judiciary
More so than any Prime Minister in Canada’s history, Harper is hell-bent on imposing his political agenda on Canada’s courts. But there’s another way to look at it, based on a view shared by Stephen Harper and others in his inner circle, that judges on Quebec’s senior courts are too
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: What Is This? The 1950s???
I have no idea who the parties are behind Airdrie’s Footprints For Learning Academy, but someone needs to give them a shake and educate them about a few things regarding gender and sexuality. Their dress code is something out of the 1950s, with rigid gender roles assumed, and strict rules
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: What David Reimer’s Story Really Demonstrates
Over at LifeSite, we find one of their editorial staff grossly misunderstanding the tragic story of David Reimer. His tragic death emphasized the total failure of one of the most famous gender alteration cases in modern medicine.…David Reimer’s traumatic life and horrific death testify that no matter what elaborate
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: On "Toll Lanes" In Calgary
I see that the geniuses at the Manning Foundation have put on their thinking caps and burned some extra wood to come up with this idea. The Manning Foundation is recommending tolls on some Calgary roads, such as Glenmore Trail, Crowchild Trail and Deerfoot Trail. “Folks are spending more time in
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Just Shut It Down Already
As if we hadn’t already heard enough about the vileness that is the TFWP, we have two major revelations today which more than justify shutting the whole thing down immediately. First up is the “advice” that a company which recruits TFWs gave to an employer: According to the email, which
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