Shiraz Shariff After weeks of bad press caused by the disqualification of nominated Calgary-West candidate Shiraz Shariff, the Progressive Conservatives announced yesterday that they would be holding a new nomination meeting in that constituency. In what amounts to a re-vote, only the four candidates involved in the original vote will
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This video you want to watch. Vic Toews has a buddy.
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Forget it! Is the long and short answer to that idea. In Quebec there was a ruling that well, you can read it here: Top Court Clears Religion Course. I support those parents who wanted to opt out, but not for the reasons they sited, but because I don’t believe
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The United Steelworkers’ union made the following submission to the Government of Canada earlier this week: The United Steelworkers union welcomes the opportunity to comment on Canada’s proposed entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade negotiations. Our union represents 200,000 Canadian workers, employed in every sector of the economy.
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Below is a link to a great article written for straightgoods.ca on the fatal flaw of the Drummond Report. Essentially, he didn’t have a choice but to recommend deep cuts because one of his rules was that he couldn’t recommend raising any taxes. Read the eye-opening piece below. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2012/ViewArticle.cfm?Ref=147 The
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I have banged heads with fellow blogger, Jeff Jedras a number of times in some old fashioned NDP VS Libs battles. HOWEVER, he is ‘dead on’ with his observations concerning how the MSM is handling the current Vic Toews fiasco: Friday, February 17, 2012Vikileaks and the death of the journalist
Continue readingViews from the lake - eh?: An insight into the character of the man
There is no question that Vic Toews offended a great many Canadians with this comment in the House of Commons last week: As technology evolves many criminal activities, such as the distribution of child pornography, become much easier. We are proposing to bring measures, to bring our laws into the
Continue readingViews from the lake - eh?: An insight into the character of the man
There is no question that Vic Toews offended a great many Canadians with this comment in the House of Commons last week: As technology evolves many criminal activities, such as the distribution of child pornography, become much easier. We are proposing to bring measures, to bring our laws into the
Continue readingViews from the lake - eh?: An insight into the character of the man
There is no question that Vic Toews offended a great many Canadians with this comment in the House of Commons last week:
As technology evolves many criminal activities, such as the distribution of child pornography, become much easier. We are proposing to bring measures, to bring our laws into the 21st century and provide police with the lawful tools that they need. He can either stand with us, or with the child pornographers.
This morning on CBC’s The House, host Evan Solomon asked Toews if he would apologise for those remarks. Toew’s responded with:
I’ve thought about this very carefully. If fair-minded Canadians have come to the conclusion that my comments in that respect … were not appropriate I am prepared to accept their judgment.
Not what a normal person would consider an apology.
And as for an apology to Liberal MP Frances Scarpaleggia (the “he” Toews accused of standing with the child pornographers), here’s again what he had to say:
You know all I can say is that I’m prepared to accept the judgment of fair-minded Canadians on that. If they feel that I’ve gone over the top I would certainly accept that judgment.
In other words, an apology over my cold, dead body.
That Toews was “over the top” in his characterisation of those opposed to his bill is an understatement. Loathsome and odious would be far more apt descriptors. And any decent human being would realise that and apologise, in no uncertain terms, that, in the heat of debate, he was wrong. But not Vic Toews; he is only prepared to accept that “fair-minded Canadians” may think his comments were inappropriate though he clearly still does not.
Continue reading"Chink In The Armor": ESPN headline about end of winning streak for Jeremy Lin
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Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Video Report: Aboriginal men march in Winnipeg for missing and murdered aboriginal women
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Continue readingkirbycairo: Attack Toews and all his Friends . . .
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Continue readingHitler reacts to Bill C-30 backlash
“Vic Toews and his ridiculous moustache fucked me. He makes Peter Kent look like Einstein.” H/T: @TabithaSouthey
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Vocalizing to a small group of carbon-based supporters in Michigan earlier this week, “Mitt Romney” – the android launched many years ago by a venture capital fund to become the first completely non-human Republican nominee for President – pretended to express his/its deep affinities with and positive responses to various
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Climate Change Deniers Get Caught With Their Carbons Down
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Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: A cooperative forecast
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Continue readingwmtc: when all else fails, kiss a pitbull
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Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Scientists Attack Harper Ventriloquist Act
A convention of scientists has asked our Furious Leader to be less of an authoritarian, undemocratic asshole. There, I said it. In an open letter to His Majesty, King Steve, the American Association for the Advancement of Science has asked that he stop muzzling federal researchers. “Despite promises that your
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