Reading today’s Postmedia story about labour union spending during the 2011 federal election campaign led this blog to wonder about other third party spending.Reviewing the listing of third parties on the Elections Canada website, two groups familiar t…
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Tony Clement: anything for a friend
While the media pretty much ignores the scandals around Peter MacKay’s elite transportation perks, Tony Clement is not so lucky. He’s being ridden hard and put up wet, if not by the media at least by NDP’s Charlie Angus.Yesterday, New Democrat Ethics C…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Friday reading.- Susan Riley points out that nothing positive figures to come from the Cons’ plans to slash Canada’s public service:No good will come of proposed public service cuts, if experience is any guide. Not a lea…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2012: The Week In Quotes
A few quotes worth noting from both candidates and non-candidates alike – feel free to suggest more in comments.Thomas Mulcair on his considerations in deciding whether to run:There’s an old saying that before you take the plunge, you have to make sure…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.
– Just as in this year’s federal election, the NDP will need to look to move voting intentions once the campaign is underway. But also just like in the federal election, there’s reason to like the party’s cha…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.
– The NDP follows up on the Tony Clement G8 scandal by pointing out the connection between his pork-barrelling and the 2008 federal election (which, let’s not forget, was called at the Cons’ behest):
The NDP is accus…
Accidental Deliberations: On official distortions
Charlie Angus is right to note that one of the more serious aspects of Tony Clement’s G8 pork-barrel coverup may be the prospect that senior bureaucrats gave false information to the Auditor General at the Cons’ behest. But it’s also worth noting the p…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your day.- Charlie Angus is leading the charge against the Cons’ plan to ram through lawful access legislation, labeling it as warrantless snooping and spying on Canadians. We’ll have to see how far Angus can get in swaying publ…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: June 21, 2011
Issue of the DayMuch of the day’s debate was taken up with the final debate on the Cons’ budget legislation, with the NDP particularly highlighting provisions to subsidize private mortgage insurance – while the Cons responded at times by insisting that…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On direct representation
In discussing how the new Parliament has functioned so far, Charlie Angus makes an important point which hints at how the Bloc lost touch with Quebec – as well as where the NDP has a massive opportunity:NDP MP Charlie Angus (Timmins-James Bay, Ont.) ag…
Continue readingOh RG Harvie, Get With It! ADSCAM is So Yesterday, To Invoke Charlie Angus, Dracula is In Charge of the Bloodbank
I find it quite amusing when blogging supposiTories still hammer on about ADSCAM to this day, and there are many who do, yet they still will not forgive any and all transgressions of their treasured Harpercons. In fact, they will become like tigers when anyone dares to slam them for it. In fact, . . . → Read More: Oh RG Harvie, Get With It! ADSCAM is So Yesterday, To Invoke Charlie Angus, Dracula is In Charge of the Bloodbank
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Juxtaposition
Lorne Gunter desperately tries to pretend that nothing has changed in the NDP’s reach outside of Quebec:Outside Quebec the party is relevant in 60 or 70 ridings, with most of those concentrated in Toronto, Vancouver and the North. There was no NDP surg…
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: What if you had a rally…
…and a-b-o-u-t t-w-e-n-t-y people showed up?
(Yes, we used hyphens to make the crowd look bigger.)
Continue readingThe Wheatsheaf: Rock the House: with Charlie Angus and Andrew Cash
L’etranger rides again. One people in Ottawa, One people for the NDP. Charlie Angus, the ex-stranger, former grievous angel, the balladeer of the Commons, the advocate of cultural rights. Andrew Cash, the ex-stranger, former Canadian rocker, writer, activist, NDP Candidate for Davenport. They reunite this afternoon, Sunday, March 20, at
Continue readingThus Prate the Pundit » Social Critique: Angus Asks for Answers to ACTA Secrets
Charlie Angus (NDP) penned an open letter1 (.doc) (26 January 2010) to Peter Van Loan (Conservative Minister of International Trade) regarding the ongoing secretive ACTA negotiations and Canadian copyright issues. Considering the ACTA negotiations have occurred largely in secret but collide head-on with copyright issues widely discussed over the last few years, it’s reasonable to expect
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