Remember that court challenge to the results of the 2011 federal election in six ridings? A number of electors, with the financial support of the Council of Canadians, felt that fraudulent robocalls may have sufficiently affected the results in six ridings where the Conservatives won by a slim margin that
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Peace, order and good government, eh?: What Alison said
In a post at Creekside about Stephen Harper’s handling of the scandal involving his Chief of Staff’s cash gift to a sitting legislator — and it was a cash gift even if there were terms attached — Alison adds a message to the leader of the Official Opposition that bears
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Sunday morning: Lazy
If you’re not wide awake yet, this should do the trick.
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night blues blogging
This is Rory Gallagher playing solo on Too Much Alcohol. And this is Ray Wylie Hubbard appearing on Letterman performing Mother Blues. Son Seals was a professional musician at 13 and a bandleader at 19. At 29, he moved to Chicago where he was signed by Alligator Records and began
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Peter Penashue takes a Mulligan and slices it into the woods.
CBC News on Monday night: Liberals take Labrador, as Jones wins big over Penashue I have to confess to being caught by surprise when Labrador MP Peter Penashue suddenly announced his resignation from the House of Commons and his intention to run in the subsequent by-election. It made a lot
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night blues blogging (because I don’t have any cats)
Last week I posted a version of this song by the Asylum Street Spankers. Here’s a different interpretation, and a different spelling of the title, by Blackberry Smoke. This is Deep Elem Blues. Let’s slow it down and go back a few years at the same time. This is Memphis
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: But did they fill out an application first?
Enbridge pipeline protesters close Ontario highway A highway near Hamilton, Ont., was shut down for almost 90 minutes Monday morning as a group stopped traffic to protest Enbridge’s plan to reverse the flow of its pipeline that cuts through a rural area of Hamilton. About 40 protesters staged a mock
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: As I was saying…
Few complete application to reverse Ontario, Quebec pipeline Fewer than 200 interested parties have completed a 10-page application form asking the National Energy Board to accept their written comments about the reversal of a pipeline that would carry diluted Alberta oil sands bitumen across Southern Ontario and into Quebec. That
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night
This evening’s proceedings will begin in a recording studio and finish up at the White House. This the Tedeschi Trucks band live in the studio with Learn How to Love. I believe this was recorded in Austin, Texas which would explain why they’re making jokes about Dallas-Fort Worth. This is
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Abstaining above our weight
Canada won’t run for UN Security Council seat in 2014 Canada will focus on other priorities rather than mount a fresh campaign for a spot on the United Nations Security Council, says Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird. Baird’s disclosure that there’s no new campaign in the works comes after Canada’s
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Abdelrazik’s still looking for answers
Abousfian Abdelrazik has decided that if the Canadian government refuses to disclose information about its actions, he’ll have to ask someone else. Like Sudan. A Montreal man who believes Canada’s spy agency had a hand in keeping him behind bars in Khartoum is pressing the Sudanese government for documentation about
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: All stocked up on popcorn and no reason to pop it
Back in November I noted my surprise at how low Chuck Strahl’s profile had been since he’d been named to chair the Security Intelligence Review Committee the previous June. I would have thought the person appointed to direct oversight of our national intelligence agency might get a little more press,
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night: RIP Richie Havens
It wasn’t planned that way but the first performer to take the stage at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in 1969 was Richie Havens, who passed away earlier this week. The famous performance of Freedom/Motherless Child was actually an improvisation for an encore after a long set. He didn’t
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: More on the Combatting Terrorism Act
The Globe and Mail has a report on the passage of Bill S7 that includes some interesting comments from someone who actually supports having a law like this on the books. Professor Craig Forcese is described as “a specialist in national security law” and he believes that measures such as
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Meet the new Libs. Same as the old Libs as far as I can tell.
With Justin Trudeau, its freshly minted leader, at the helm the renewed Liberal Party of Canada has already told me pretty much what I need to know. Given the option of speaking out against a trade deal with China which would seriously hamper our ability to manage our own environment
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night
Moose at Classic Blues Videos gets a hat tip for the opener. This is Joe Louis Walker with Let’s Rock a While Tonight. I didn’t note it at the time but Alvin Lee, best known as the front man for Ten Years After, passed away last month. Here he is
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Mostly competent government
If, like me, you believe that personnel decisions are among the most important decisions that management can make, you really have to be shaking your head at Stephen Harper at this point. He’s had a knack for picking winners. The former head of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal abused and
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: After all, what would a Minister of Revenue know about taxes?
Committee studying offshore tax evasion will not question revenue minister A finance committee study on tax havens will be written without input from National Revenue Minister Gail Shea after the Conservative majority struck down an NDP request to question the minister about spending priorities inside her department. In arguing against
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This is an instrumental by Kelly Joe Phelps called Spit Me Outta the Whale. The instrument is a National Steel Guitar. This is the Band of Heathens with Medicine Man, a link I stashed away a long time ago and haven’t gotten back to ’til now but this seems like
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: In case you thought it couldn’t get more ridiculous
Your Minister of Natural Resources, ladies and gentlemen: “I think that people aren’t as worried as they were before about global warming of two degrees,” Oliver said in an editorial board interview with Montreal daily newspaper, La Presse. “Scientists have recently told us that our fears (on climate change) are
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