As our headlines have turned to the turmoil in Iran over concerns about election fraud and the resulting protests and violent action to suppress the dissent, I have watched with increasing concern the distress of my neighbour, who is Iranian. Normally very quiet on FaceBook, she was suddenly posting frequently
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: Framing The Question
Here is what Michael Ignatieff needs to do to define the decision to go to an election or not.Regardless of what action is taken the correct question is this: “We need to decide whether it is more harmful to the economy to have an election now or to le…
Continue readingCanning's Guess: sorry folks, no election
That’s the official position of Canning’s Guess. You heard it here first!
Continue readingredjenny: First the Recession didn’t exist…
First the recession didn’t even exist (No recession for Canada, er.. well maybe a “technical” one), and now the recession is going away. yep, ok, uh-huh, sure, I believe you StevieAfter all, your finance minister has such a good track record
Continue readingredjenny: First the Recession didn’t exist…
First the recession didn’t even exist (No recession for Canada, er.. well maybe a “technical” one), and now the recession is going away.yep, ok, uh-huh, sure, I believe you StevieAfter all, your finance minister has such a good track record
Continue readingredjenny: First the Recession didn’t exist…
First the recession didn’t even exist (No recession for Canada, er.. well maybe a “technical” one), and now the recession is going away. yep, ok, uh-huh, sure, I believe you StevieAfter all, your finance minister has such a good track record
Continue readingJacked Up: Obama is responsible for the Holocaust Museum Shooting!
That’s according to Glenn Beck and Fox news. Joseph Palermo at Huffington Post had quite a take on this kind of spin. From his article: In Beck’s world President Obama brings “identity politics” and “political correctness” to the White House, and it’s the “Left” that is “racist” because unlike conservatives,
Continue readingJacked Up: Next Minister Mentioned in "The Tape"
It seems that Jim Prentice is next, according to this article at Oil Week Magazine.
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: Closing The Case
With everything that’s happened, being able to make traction on the Lisa Raitt Toronto Port Authority expense scandal can really be the final thing (and just perfectly timed) to finish her off.It’s going to be hard to make it get attention or make peop…
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: Priorities
When Lisa Raitt lost the secret documents she let down her party. And she offered to resign.When Lisa Raitt used hideous language relating to the Health Crisis her ministry is in she let down her country and her fellow citizens. But she didn’t offer to…
Continue readingcheap politics? come again?
Harper accused the opposition today in the House for playing “cheap politics” in their attacks against Natural Resources Lisa Raitt. Threatening to release “videos” and releasing attack ads during non-election times, isn’t cheap? Come again?Apparently …
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: Missing the Target
I don’t think Michael Ignatieff landed the target on Lisa Raitt during question period.There is a lot of confusion at what the issues are in Raitt’s new case of stupidity and I think they needed to be approached in a more clear way.You need to ask Cons…
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: Body Language
If you watch Question Period on a regular basis you notice the always-entertaining facial expressions and reactions of Helena Guergis. Whenever a member of the Cabinet speaks Helena is almost always in the shot doing over-the-top facial expressions, no…
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: It’s In The Details
This John Baird is a rude bastard scandal has been awesome so far.But does it have legs? Another private conversation overheard, not intended for public repetition, a badly behaved individual venting his anger privately to coworkers, but no secret tape…
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: What’s On Tonight?…
Am I the only one who hasn’t seen this?
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: This Is Commonplace
So apparently Lisa Raitt’s behavior was commonplace.Here’s something else I don’t understand… Lisa Raitt supposedly had these documents out at CTV to brief for her interview. Was her interview about cost overruns at Chalk River?What was in this secre…
Continue readingJacked Up: New Tory Drug Law
According to The Montreal Gazette, A federal bill to impose automatic jail terms for drug crimes, for the first time in Canada, is headed for passage in the House of Commons in a final vote that could happen as early as today. The Liberals are apparently going to vote in
Continue readingJacked Up: Raitt-Gate
So the opposition want Lisa Raitt to resign over the fact that secret documents were left at CTV for almost a week. I can see the rationale, especially since Harper himself said that cabinet ministers would be held “personally accountable for the security of their staff and offices.” And that
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: Something I Don’t Understand
I’m sorry, but how did a director of communications happen to have custody of documents marked secret and serially numbered as such?If Lisa Raitt had to hand the documents off to someone to do a TV appearance, why to a communications director?Maybe her…
Continue readinga conversation with george w. bush & bill clinton
Last Friday, on May 29, I had the fortunate opportunity to attend the highly anticipated talk with Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.The afternoon started off with the President and CEO of TD Bank Financi…
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