I said a couple of days ago I thought these guys might clam up leading to the Christmas holidays after the James Moore debacle, but no, they just can’t seem to help showing themselves as the modern-day Ebeenezer Scrooge/Grinch government. I obviously underestimated the foot-in-mouth disease, as its spread. I’m
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Scott's DiaTribes: Moral of the James Moore story?
The moral of this story is: when reporters are asking questions and getting replies from Conservative Cabinet Ministers, I’d advise to make sure they have recorded audio of the conversation, so the aforementioned Cabinet Minister can’t weasel their way out of whatever embarrassing or controversial comment they said by claiming
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Which data will be lost in Canada.ca consolidation?
TweetAnyone who has spent even a minimal amount of time searching for information on government websites will understand what complicated labyrinths they can sometimes be. So, news that the Government of Canada is attempting to improve Canadians’ online experience should be positive, right? Earlier this year, the British Columbia Freedom
Continue readingwmtc: open letter to james moore
To the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Industry: In answer to your recent question, yes, it is your job to feed your neighbour’s child. And it’s my job, and it’s my neighbours’ jobs, too. It is all of our jobs to feed every hungry child, because we live in a
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: A relentless call for donations: The last 65 emails from the Liberals
Starting the day that Justin Trudeau was elected as the leader of the Liberal Party, I have received 65 emails from the LPC’s main bulk email account, most with Trudeau’s name attached. Of that 65, 52 of them have been calls for donations, in under eight months. December has been
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: The Difficulties in Remembering Rosa
In the early morning hours of November 24th, the body of a possibly trans person was found in Edmonton, Alberta. I say “possibly trans” because it’s unclear how this person identified, and to my knowledge, no one in the trans community has met them or would be able to shed
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: The Difficulties in Remembering Rosa
In the early morning hours of November 24th, the body of a possibly trans person was found in Edmonton, Alberta. I say “possibly trans” because it’s unclear how this person identified, and to my knowledge, no one in the trans community has met them or would be able to shed
Continue readingIn This Corner: Door-to-door delivery going the way of the telegraph.
Canada Post has announced that it will cease door-to-door mail delivery, becoming the first postal service in the world to stop doing what it was intended to do. Once again, Canada is at the forefront of not getting things done. It’s the Canadian way. There has been much umbrage across
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: ‘It is enough for a man to understand his own business; mine occupies me constantly’
Federal Industry Minister James Moore on the federal government’s role (or lack thereof) in reducing child poverty in Canada is basically: let others worry about it: “Federal minister says child poverty not Ottawa’s problem: “Is it my job to feed my neighbour’s child? I don’t think so.” That from Federal
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: Some beautiful animation about a terrible person. Are the…
Some beautiful animation about a terrible person. Are the creators psychic or merely wishful? We’ll find out in 2014.
Continue readingeaves.ca: The End of Canada Post and the Coming War for Your Mailbox
As pretty much everyone in Canada learned yesterday (and no one outside the country cares to know), Canada Post, the country’s national postal service will phase out home mail delivery by 2019. The reason? It’s obvious. The internet has hammered mail volumes. There was 20% less mail delivered in 2012 than
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: Just when you thought the lying scumbag Rob Ford couldn’t…
Just when you thought the lying scumbag Rob Ford couldn’t sink any lower, he belly flops into the filthy, shitty muck yet again. During a softball interview by Conrad Black on the show Zoomer TV — which aired on December 9, 2013 on the religious channel, Vision — the lying, corrupt
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Who gets muzzled next by unconstitutional Redford Government laws? Environmentalists?
Deputy Premier Thomas Lukaszuk, in motorcycle sidecar, gives the order to go after a pesky trade unionist’s blog. But look out! Alison Redford’s Alberta Thought Police may already have their eyes on you! Actual Redford cabinet ministers may not appear exactly as illustrated. Then again, new uniforms for cabinet and
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Linda McQuaig’s cognitive dissonance on negative campaigning
The recent byelection in Toronto center – won handily by the Liberals’ Chrystia Freeland in a race against the NDP’s Linda McQuaig – ruffled quite a bit of feathers. Justin Trudeau’s victory speech in particular gained a lot of attention, in part because of the controversy it drummed up of quoting
Continue readingBlevkog: If I Go There Will Be Trouble….
with apologies to The Clash Here’s a few names for you. Richard Hatfield, Kim Campbell and Brian Mulroney. What’s the significance you ask? Well, One was flung out of power like a union rep in a Walmart, bringing about a one party legislature in New Brunswick, one learned from his
Continue readingBryan Crockett: Sign the petition if you agree.
Sign the petition if you agree.
Continue readingBryan Crockett: Michael Chong’s Reform Act Must Be Done Carefully
Michael Chong’s proposed Reform Act, the text of which isn’t yet public, is widely expected to change the wide Parliament works, mostly by taking power away from party leaders and giving it directly to party caucuses and riding associations. The bill will allow 15% of a party caucus to trigger
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: JT: Avoid Pitfalls/Continue Practising What You Preach On Cooperative Government
So does anyone read anything these days about that women’s night fundraiser and some of Justin Trudeau’s comments on China at it that some media and political partisans tried to turn into a firestorm? Not really. The recent by-election successes of the LPC and the continuing (ever continuing) firestorm on
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: News roundup: November 30, 2013 Here are a few thoughts about…
News roundup: November 30, 2013 Here are a few thoughts about recent Canadian political stories (in no particular order). Liberal spin on the Toronto Centre by-election Justin Trudeau and the federal Liberals have been falsely claiming they ran a wholly positive campaign in the Toronto Centre by-election, and that this
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Justin Trdeau should run a positive campaign, not run on having a positive campaign
Day in and day out, or so it seems, Justin Trudeau hammers away at one theme above all else: that he is, or so he claims, engaging in positive politics. It isn’t the Senate Scandal that he cites most often, it isn’t big issues like the economy or climate change,
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