Well there he was in Question Period, looking and sounding like a robot, refusing to say why his Cons are refusing to cooperate with Elections Canada. Repeating the same answer over and over again. “Mr. Speaker, I gave clear answers regarding the activities of the Conservative party of Canada,” he
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Caribou, Coal Mining and the world’s First Twitter Moot Court
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Many were scratching their heads when they heard that West Coast was running the “World’s First-ever Twitter Moot.” Say what? What’s that, and how does it relate to the environment? Just what are you trying to accomplish? But for an hour or so on February 21st
Continue readingImpolitical: Final word: Tories lose in-and-out all around
The Conservative party and the Conservative fund were fined and pleaded guilty to exceeding the national party spending limits in late 2011. Today, there is news that the Conservatives are withdrawing their civil appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada: “Tories ditch ‘in-and-out’ case at Supreme Court.” This means that
Continue readingThe Wingnuterer: I was out, finished! and I took an arrow to the knee
I had given up on blogging and then I dabbled with it for a bit, off an on. The reasons for leaving are complicated,… various events in the blogosphere sour my taste for it,… certain events in my life just made me loose interest in the task,… And then, when
Continue readingOccupy Ottawa: #Robocall Movies: Canadian Political Humor Par Excellence
Canadian politics in the age of Stephen Harper and the Conservative majority government are depressing, to say the least. Luckily our political satire still kicks ass. Inspired by the unraveling Robo-calls scandal, a sample: [View …Read More
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: No Accidental Tyrant
Stephen Harper is despotic by design. That much is apparent in an excerpt from a letter Harper wrote in 2001 while head of the National Citizens Coalition, known as the “jackasses letter.” Harper used the epithet to castigate bureaucrats of Elections Canada whom he ridiculed as “out of control.” In
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – In the latest on Robocon, John Ivison rightly notes that the scandal figures to give many Canadians a long-overdue first look at the Cons’ computerized voter information. Meanwhile, Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher note that the Cons’ spending in last year’s election
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The F-35’s Lowered Expectations
Now it’s not only way over-budget, way overdue but the Pentagon is having to lower its performance requirements so it won’t have to call the F-35 a complete turkey. If the plane can’t achieve its specified combat radius, change the specifications. If it can’t land within the specified runway length,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Stephen Harper’s Pathological Hatred
While I stand by my comments about The Globe and Mail in my last post, the paper does have one real asset in the person of Lawrence Martin. Unlike other Globe employees who seem strangely constrained ideologically, Lawrence is consistently robust in his criticism of the Harper regime. Today’s column
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Today in the Realm of Useless Ideas
A merger of the Manitoba Liberals and Greens! What? Though its been ruled out, I feel the need to comment. A merger of the Manitoba Liberal Party and the Green Party of Manitoba, which together combined for 10.05% of the vote in 2011’s provincial election, and would have gained zero
Continue readingQP: Show us yours first
It’s sometimes amazing what a bit of adult supervision can do for question period – but I’m not sure that today was really that day. Harper may have been back in the House, and as a result the surreal and non-reality-based rhetoric was toned down slightly (not that it stopped
Continue readingthe woodshed: He’s cheesy and he’s greasy
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Continue reading"…Complaints have been filed with Saanich police, the RCMP and Elections Canada…"
omplaints? WeDon’tNeedYourStinkin’ComplaintsVille The header above, is how we ended a recent post about patient-zero in the RoboCall saga. It is a story about one riding, Saanich Gulf-Islands, where fraudulent robo-calls were clearly made in the name of a non-existent front group during the 2008 campaign. So. In the wake of
Continue readingBlunt Objects: On that AR Poll of the Robocall Issues….
I have some minor issues with the questions, but overall its cool. Take a look. But, let me just point out one: How likely do you think each of the following parties are to provide false and misleading information to voters through telephone calls with pre-recorded messages during a political
Continue readingViagra= Slut
Channeling the inner Stoopid from the Republicans in the US…. ARE YOU sick and tired of paying higher health care costs so these sluts can go and have as much sex as they want? CAFFERTY: Well,you know, the answer is Viagra is used to treat a medical condition, erectile dysfunction.
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Nanos, Robocalls, and Super Tuesday
Sorry for my lack of posting the past three days – but I haven’t missed much anyways. The big thing I did miss was the recent Nanos Research poll, showing for the second time in a row, the Liberals in second place. The topline numbers (and changes from the last
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: No more reprehensible MP than this guy
Veterans called NDP hacks, Jeff Davis, Postmedia News “OTTAWA — Calgary MP Rob Anders — who embarrassed himself by falling asleep in the Veterans Affairs committee last week — offered an apology to veterans in the House of Commons Tuesday. “…After nodding off in a committee meeting held in Halifax,
Continue readingTrashy's World: Why has there been a…
… secret robotic plane orbiting in space for the past year? No one seems to know. What the robotic space plane has been doing in orbit for so long remains a mystery, since Air Force officials have not commented on the flight’s details due to its classified nature. Outside experts,
Continue readingPeggy Nash or Bust
OK time to get off the fence. There are presently two visions of social democracy at play within the NDP. One that wants to drag the NDP further to the neoliberal centre and one that wants to take a pause … Continue reading →
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