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Impolitical: Early evening accountability watch
The RCMP: The Mounties have dropped their preliminary probe of a former Tory aide who was cited for political interference in an access-to-information request. An RCMP spokeswoman said Monday there will be no further investigation into Sebastien Togner…
Continue readingeaves.ca: Shared IT Services across the Canadian Government – three opportunities
Earlier this week the Canadian Federal Government announced it will be creating Shared Services Canada which will absorb the resources and functions associated with the delivery of email, data centres and network services from 44 departments. These types of shared services projects are always fraught with danger. While they sometimes are successfully, they are often […]
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Trish Hennessy crunches the numbers on vacation time for Canadians:47Percentage of Canadian workers who say they need a vacation more today than they’ve needed in four years. 10Number of statutory holidays Canadian…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Sixth Estate examines which party’s candidates have violated the Canada Elections Act in recent elections. And it shouldn’t be much surprise that Canada’s supposed law-and-order party doesn’t have much respect f…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Open to change
It’s absolutely for the best that Paul Dewar is planning to reintroduce his bill to ensure a truly independent Parliamentary Budget Office. But what’s most significant in determining whether the bill has a chance of passing is that even the Cons haven’…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Just so we’re clear…
New rules for Canadian political reporting:If a federal government department is proposing to raise user fees, that has nothing to do with Tony Clement or any other Harper Con, particular when it comes to evaluating Clement’s promises that user fees we…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On privileged access
It’s somewhat surprising to see one of the architects of a PMO noted for an obsessive aversion to transparency pushing for a lobbying registry in Saskatchewan. But I have to wonder whether the pitch has something to do with the flaws in the Harper Cons…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your long weekend.- Sixth Estate’s evisceration of the Fraser Institute continues, this time with a response in substance to the claim that private-sector rent-seekers will somehow make prescription drugs more affordable:(T)he r…
Continue reading#G20 anniversary: Queen & Spadina, one year later
Hundreds of citizens arrested on bullshit pretexts.Detained arbitrarily in conditions that were gross violations of human rights.Subjected to racist, sexist, misogynistic and homophobic slurs and harassment.Assaulted indiscriminately.Beaten, tear-gasse…
Continue readingMistakes were made, Bill Blair says | #G20
So Bill Blair’s had some time to reflect on last summer’s G20 clusterfuck, and good and loyal servant he is, he’s graced us with a report. Among other things, he praises his officers for “facing danger and extreme provocation.”Indeed. Takes a special k…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On responsibility
Shorter Con instructions to ministers:If your underlings break the law based on your instructions, it’s their own damn fault for taking orders. So go nuts!
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Releasing Government Bad News Under Cover of a Hockey Game
Based on the bad news coming from the BC and Canadian governments under cover of game one of the Stanley Cup finals, we should be wary of the Canucks going to seven games. It used to be Friday afternoons were a great time for governments to release bad news. The week’s media cycle was drifting […]
Continue readingAccountability from the #G20? Not gonna happen
From the Tumblr a couple of hours ago.
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We ain’t gonna have no stinkin’ inquiry
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Michigan and the shredding of government of, by and for the people
Shrugging off accountability
So, one of the items coming out of the G8 meeting last week was that Harper is going to “encourage” Parliament to vote to extend the Libya mission. It's a bit of a wink and nod to his majority; it’s not like he’s going to …
Continue readingMore allegations of police brutality at the G20: Gabriel Jacobs
More serving and protecting by the Toronto Police. (Yeah, right.)
Via CBC and the Star, news that Gabriel Jacobs is filing a human rights complaint over the way he was treated at the G20.
Let’s review the sordid allegations: Guy in a wheelchair. Drag…
Continue readingPut lying cops on the stand and make them do it for the record
Not that it should take the focus off Harper and McGuinty, who bear just as much culpability as municipal officials for the abuses that took place at last summer’s G20, but Rosie DiManno’s got an idea about the 11 cops who, incredibly, can’t identify t…
Continue readingOn CBC, a further demonstration of Toronto cops’ contempt for us
On Metro Morning today, Matt Galloway talked to police union boss Mike McCormack about the nameless asshole who broke Dorian Barton’s arm at the G20 last summer, and about the SIU’s investigation coming to a dead end.
Anyone want to guess where Mike m…
Continue readingToronto Police: Unaccountable, uncaring, unbelievable
The Star doesn’t always get it right, but this time it’s taken a centring pass in the slot and buried it in the top corner.
When the provincial Special Investigations Unit threw in the towel and said it couldn’t identify the brutal, cowardly slimeball…
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