Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault told a House of Commons committee she believes the public broadcaster might be using new internal guidelines to quickly dismiss some access requests, thereby making it easier to claim faster response times.
Continue readingBuckdog: Sask NDP Leader Dwain Lingenfelter Delivers Strong Showing In Televised Leader’s Debate
Sask NDP Leader Dwain Lingenfelter delivered a strong, strong performance in the Leader’s Debate tonight. Wall sounded like an opposition leader, having the challenge of defending the minimalist ‘status quo’ agenda that his party believes in. Lingenfel…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Cain Targets… Republican Smokers?
In another curious example of the Herminator’s offbeat campaign strategy, it’s apparently now aiming to win over Iowan cigarette smokers to support the former pizza mogul and his “999” Plan from Outer Space… “The message behind the ad was to … Continue reading →
OpenMedia.ca: CBC forced to defend budget, relevance in parliament by Carmen Chai and Glen McGregor
The CBC has found itself under fire, forced to defend its economic value and societal relevance while the country’s access-to-information watchdog suggests the broadcaster may be automatically denying information requests.
Continue readingcmkl: Launch day plus two: never let a good deed go unpunished
Two of the seven re-designed regional websites my employer operates have recently gone public. I admit I was pretty excited when it happened. It looked like I could sort of see the end of this project which has extended well beyond its original end dat…
Continue readingFlaherty predicts….
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Madame Flaherty hath spoken.
OTTAWA – Finance minister Jim Flaherty says he expects the Canadian and U.S. economies will have modest growth next year – and brushed off concerns Friday about Canada’s inflation rate.
Consumer prices ju…
Murray Dobbin Repost: Occupy the NDP
Occupy the NDP Posted on October 24, 2011 by murraydobbin There’s nothing quite like a global social movement to knock other stuff off the front pages and the Occupy movement has done just that. After ignoring it for weeks while it was being born …
Continue readingTories conclude that gun licensing is unnecessary in its entirety
Photo courtesy of the National Post, URL http://nationalpostcomment.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/scattergun.jpg?w=620As Bill C-19 is slated for an inevitable approval in Parliament due to the Tory majority Harper has achieved in the last federal electio…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Stupid Is As Stupid Does
Martin Bashir uses his sanctimonious “Clear the Air” editorial segment to indignantly rip into Texas Governor Rick Perry for his latest cack-handed attempt to burrow into the most loathsome depths of the Republican Party’s dark amygdale. It’s surprising that Perry … Continue reading →
DeSmogBlog: TransCanada Spent $540,000 Lobbying in Third Quarter For Keystone XL Pipeline
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TransCanada Corp, the company hoping to build the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, spent $540,000 on lobbying in the third quarter of 2011, according to lobb…
Continue readinggritchik: Frank is Frank
Tim Hudak would’ve been wise to have paid a bit more attention to his notoriously conservative, Progressive Conservative MPP, Frank Klees during the last session. A Conservative insider had told me that among senior Tory staffers, they generally didn’t “give a shit” about Klees. Here’s a quote from Klees himself after the 2009 PC leadership […]
Paper Dynamite Online: Brian Topp’s Preferred Ballot Question For The NDP Leadership Vote.
In an interview with Straight Goods News, Brian Topp put forward one of the questions he wants New Democrats to have uppermost in their minds when they cast their ballots for a new leader.Do New Democrats want to become an angry and divisive party?Resp…
Continue readingBuckdog: Stephen Harper’s New Libyan Allies Start Mass Executions Of Opponents – Human Rights Watch
Stephen Harper sure knows how to pick great friends for Canada … ‘eh??”We found 53 decomposing bodies, apparently Gaddafi supporters, at an abandoned hotel in Sirte,” said Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch (HRW), who investigated the killings.”So…
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: $15-million gift to Nova Scotia university rewards donor with $6-million tax break
What could be wrong with Dalhousie University’s announcement that one of Nova Scotia’s leading industrialists is giving Dal’s School of Business $15-million? When you dig behind the headlines, there’s quite a lot wrong with it. Kenneth Ro…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Tory snouts back in trough #nlpoli
In a characteristically display of arrogance and entitlement, Kathy Dunderdale today reappointed two of her key political hacks – Len Simms and Ross Reid – to their patronage jobs in the provincial public service. What makes the whole sordid busin…
Continue readingTucker Carlson hearts Jack Abramoff
If you don’t know Jack, you should. He’s the corrupt, corrupt lobbyist whose prison sentence was too short. Now he’s written a book and Daily Caller’s Tucker Carlson is throwing him a party.”I hope this party serves as a well-earned middle finger to th…
Continue readingFrank Klees, not Andrea Horwath, is the kingmaker
Photo courtesy of the National Post, URL http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/pjt-klees-5.jpg?w=620 During the heated Ontario provincial election, many were speculating that if there was to be such a thing as a Liberal minority governmen…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Majority-ish
Frank Klees, the runner up to Tim Hudak in the 2009 Ontario PC leadership race, has announced he will be running for speaker when the Ontario legislature resumes sitting.If you’re wondering why we should care, the answer is “math” – with Klees as speak…
Continue readingwmtc: fbi "mapping": racial and ethnic profiling at the highest levels of so-called law enforcement
I just received this from the ACLU. I will run it here verbatim, except for a few extraneous bits. This is racial and ethnic profiling at its most extreme. If the top law “enforcement” agency in the US does this, how can the police departments of New Y…
Continue readingQP: Today’s back-up Baird
It was curious to see just what the NDP
would leadoff Question Period with, with so many issues of the day. Would it be
the long-gun registry? Would it be the “you’re talking Eskimo” video? Would it
be the F-35 issues? No, Nycole Tu…