Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Joseph Heath discusses how the Volkswagen emission cheating scandal fits into a particular type of corporate culture: (W)hen the Deepwater Horizon tragedy occurred, or now the VW scandal, it was hardly surprising to people who follow these things. Certain industries essentially harbour and reproducing
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Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jim Stanford discusses how the Trans-Pacific Partnership is renegotiating NAFTA – and taking away what little Canada salvaged in that deal. And Jared Bernstein highlights the TPP’s impact on prescription drug costs. – Rick Smith rightly challenges the effort some people have
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: You’ve Heard This Story Before
http://www.torontosun.com/ Bruce Carson’s trial did not last long. We now await the judge’s decision. On one level, the trial was about one individual’s corrupt behaviour. But, on another level, the trial revealed yet again how the Harper government corrupts everything it touches. David Keith provides a little context: In
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Paul Weinberg discusses the need to focus on inequality in Canada’s federal election, while Scott Deveau and Jeremy Van Loon take note of the fact that increased tax revenue is on the table. The Star’s editorial board weighs in on the NDP’s
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jesus Harper and the Not So Miraculous Surplus
It looked like a scene in that sordid B-movie, The Rise and Fall of Jesus Harper.The one where the Oily Messiah takes a fishy deficit and miraculously turns it into a tiny surplus.Stephen Harper seemed to have some extra spring in his step Monday after struggling on a variety of
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: For Harper, It’s Showtime – the Sequel. Fremdschamen, Indeed.
Okay, it’s not Mike Duffy. We won’t hear much of him again until the election is over. Today’s fare is more like a light lunch, maybe just a handful of trail mix. It’s Bruce Carson time! The two-time jailbird, fraudster and, naturally, top Harper aide goes back to his old
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Will Stephen Harper Go For a Late Fall Election?
It's been the subject of much fevered speculation. Will Stephen Harper call an early election? And if so how early?And no doubt Great Desperate Leader is consulting his crystal ball, and the fevered voices in his head.And in his brief moments of lucidity, probably wondering if he DID go early what
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jim Armitage discusses how the privatization of public services in the UK is being mashed up with the principles behind subprime lending and debt bundling – leading to a bubble which promises to take down investors and the public alike. – Dylan Matthews
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Lonely At The Top?
If Stephen Harper isn’t ‘feelin’ the love,’ it is a situation of his own making. Two brief excerpts from Tim Harper’s column in today’s Star, entitled Stephen Harper’s slide into isolation, are instructive. Tom Flanagan, former best-buddies with Dear Leader, wrote in his recent book, Persona Non Grata, this about
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Blindness of the Media, and the True Nature of Stephen Harper
It's the question that haunts me the most. The one I keep asking myself, but can never answer:Why after all the horrible things he's done to Canada and its values do so many in the MSM still not recognize the true nature of Stephen Harper ?Or ask themselves whether it's
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Jim Stanford looks into the fine print of the Hudak PCs’ assumptions about corporate tax slashing and finds that even their own numbers show that most of the money gifted to corporations would be thrown away (emphasis added): On second reading there are
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Harper Enemies List: A Prominent Member
Yesterday I wrote about a fund-raising plea that the Harper machine has sent out to its true believers with deep pockets; the missive stressed the need for big dollars to get out the truth to Canadians about what a fine job the regime is doing, a message that is, according
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Ex-Harper aide charged with illegal lobbying, influence peddling
by: Obert Madondo | May 18, 2014 Obert Madondo, Editor, The Canadian Progressive The RCMP last week charged Bruce Carson, a former aide to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, with illegal lobbying and influence peddling. This is further confirmation that Harper is the world’s worst talent scout. Even more interesting is the fact that
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Could Stephen Harper Soon Be Toast?
It's all going horribly wrong. His foul voter suppression bill is only making even more Canadians want to vote to throw him out of office.He has more scandals than he can count. His Cons are fighting themselves or urging people to vote for another party.Pro-life Conservative MP Kyle Seeback told
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Scandalous Senate and PMO appointments say Harper is unqualified to criticise Trudeau’s f-bomb
by: Obert Madondo | March 31, 2014 Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau dropped the f-bomb when he addressed the crowd at the Fight for the Cure charity boxing match in Gatineau, Quebec, over the weekend. “I’m going tell you, there is no experience like stepping into this ring and measuring yourself,” Trudeau said. “Your
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Few Escape The Bruce Carson Taint
Nigel Wright to Bruce Carson in 2011 as the later conducted his allegedly illegal lobbying: “I’ve heard a lot of good things about you. Feel free to give me a call at any time. You can read all about it here. Recommend this Post
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Return of Bruce Carson
Well I think it's safe to say it's the last thing Stephen Harper needed, what with all his other scandals.It must be a bit like Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Past.But like it it or not old Brucie is BAAAACK !!!! Read more »
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: He’s Back! Bruce Carson Under Investigation for Influence Peddling.
Former top aide to Stephano Harper, Bruce Carson, is back in the news and, predictably, it’s bad news. CBC reports that the disgraced senior advisor to Mr. Harper is the subject of an RCMP investigation into illegal lobbying. This scandal may also have snared another Harper senate appointment, Doug Black. CBC
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and My Fabulous Con Reunion
Well as you know the Con convention in Calgary had to be postponed due to an extreme weather event.And Stephen Harper is terribly depressed because he can't press the reset button on his old and tired government.So I thought I'd try to cheer him up eh?By organizing a smaller convention,
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Former CPC candidate Saulie Zajdel arrested — what does this say about PMSH?
You remember Bruce Carson, a [former] top adviser to PMSH? And, then there was that $90K cheque from PMSH’s right-hand man, Nigel Wright, to Mike Duffy… Well, now there’s Saulie Zajdel… you remember Saulie Zajdel, right? Saulie Zajdel was arrested this morning by Sûreté de Québec and faces five charges,
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