Note: we've interviewed @ThomasMulcair @JustinTrudeau and @ElizabethMay this campaign. @pmharper was to join us this week but cancelled 1/2 — The West Block (@TheWestBlock) October 11, 2015 His team told us he decided not to do any more nat'l interviews. No worries we have a show full of great content
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Another Conservative “cover-up”
It’s bad enough that there’s no sight of Conservative candidates campaigning to public crowds in Regina, but Conservative-friendly orgs are also trying to cover-up their interview contents. Sloppiest. Cover-up. Ever. Conservative Michael Kram's LITERALLY covered-up interview with 'pro-life' paper. #elxn42 pic.twitter.com/JSgnASp9Hn — ʇɹǝqoɹ Jago (@rjjago) October 5, 2015 This particular
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Underage girls, booze and other reasons to dump Conservative MP Rick Dykstra
Struggling to figure out why you should dump Conservative MP Rick Dykstra? He reportedly bought booze for underage girls at the Mansion House nightclub in St. Catharines, where he is seeking re-election during the Oct. 19 federal election. The post Underage girls, booze and other reasons to dump Conservative MP
Continue readingwRanter.com: Gaffes and ‘anti-Semitism’ on the campaign trail
In the Sept. 17 Globe and Mail leaders’ debate, Prime Minister Stephen Harper made reference to “old-stock Canadians” in defending his government’s policy on health care for refugees and immigrants, saying it had only denied care to bogus claimants. “We do not offer them a better health-care plan than the
Continue readingThe Tory Pirate - Politics & Policy: The NDP "is not planning any changes to our current form of the parliamentary system"
It is not often I get to talk about issues related to the monarchy on this blog. I mostly keep that on the other blog I writefor. However the Monarchist League of Canada recently surveyed the main federal parties on their views towards theCanadian Monarchy. One of the answers was
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: CBC Wrecks Another Debate #elxn42
I’ve long called for More Debates, Not Fewer Debaters, and CBC again disappoints. Not much watchdog press left in Canada. No wonder people reject mainstream journalism for real reporting online.#cbc https://t.co/cWMUdIm5s3 — John MacDougall (@coircomann) October 2, 2015 Despite efforts by the major TV broadcasters, NDP have refused to participate
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: If You Don’t Like Canada…
Comments from CBC story, discussing the U-Pass at the University of Regina: Corruptable writes: forcing someone to pay for a bus pass they will not use is ludicrous. she would force everyone to pay for a parking spot that only some will use… blue cheese responds: @Corruptable like getting taxed
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Free Trade, CETA, TPP, and the US and Canadian Federal Elections: Some Critical Perspective
The following is critical to understand – for the people of Canada, the US, Europe and the world: “free trade” deals such those already signed (NAFTA), and those being pushed through with great secrecy now (CETA, TTIP and TPP), are agreements which grant supra-national powers to transnational corporations, powers over
Continue readingwRanter.com: A national icon takes his leave
One of the questions I posed in this space a few weeks ago was: who will be the next big-name Jewish MP? With apologies to Joe Oliver, Canada’s first Jewish federal finance minister, what I may subconsciously have been asking is who will be the next Irwin Cotler, now that
Continue readingMaple-Flavoured Politics: Stephen Harper Doesn’t Trust Stephen Harper
Today, Stephen Harper announced that Stephen Harper doesn’t trust Stephen Harper. OK, he didn’t quite put it that way, but that was a logical conclusion that one could draw from his announcement. At an event in Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Harper added a “Tax Lock” law plank to the Conservative election platform.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Bruce Carson’s Bigger Scandal
When Harper appointed Carson as a top adviser, the fraud used his position to undermine research into climate change. About the only part not worth reading is the line saying “There is no easy way to cut emissions and grow the economy”, and now you’ve read it, and can recognize
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Harper Can’t Grasp the Solution to ISIS
Fisk puts his finger on the failing pulse of Canadian leadership the last decade. “We had a chance to do something at the end of the First World War [when Sykes-Picot was signed], but we didn’t. Nobody reads history books anymore. One of the first things ISIS did was to
Continue readingEnough of this low tax nonsense
If conservatives believe in low taxes in order to keep government small, so be it, but when they insist that low taxes are necessary for a healthy economy, they are talking rot, parroting a mantra that has been utterly disproved. The low tax theory can in fact be refuted with
Continue readingLeft Over: Take a Propaganda at this Ridiculous Headline….
Spin Cycle: Is the NDP’s proposed corporate tax hike a ‘job killer’? Liberals, Conservatives decry NDP plan to raise corporate tax rate to 17% from 15% By Ira Basen, CBC News Posted: Sep 17, 2015 3:22 PM ET Last Updated: Sep 17, 2015 3:32 PM ET Who wrote that headline, some-under-assistant
Continue readingLeft Over: Take a Propaganda at this Ridiculous Headline….
Spin Cycle: Is the NDP’s proposed corporate tax hike a ‘job killer’? Liberals, Conservatives decry NDP plan to raise corporate tax rate to 17% from 15% By Ira Basen, CBC News Posted: Sep 17, 2015 3:22 PM ET Last Updated: Sep 17, 2015 3:32 PM ET Who wrote that headline, some-under-assistant
Continue readingwRanter.com: Refugees: a Jewish issue comes to the fore
A quintessentially Jewish issue has dominated the news and become a prominent election issue ever since the picture of three-year-old Alan Kurdi lying dead in the Mediterranean surf generated headlines worldwide earlier this month. For many, the painful image has crystallized the ongoing question of what the world ought to
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Maclean’s: Conservatives made deal to quiet dissent on C-51, gun group says
Conservatives offered a deal with the National Firearms Association to quiet C-51 dissent, and then broke their promise. Article by Laura Payton for Maclean’s The president of the National Firearms Association says the Conservative government offered to make changes to its gun licensing bill if the NFA held its fire on the controversial
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Canadian rights groups demand a stronger Canadian response to the Syrian refugee crisis
Amnesty International and 11 other rights and refugee groups have released a comprehensive set of recommendations that should form the basis of Canada’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis. The post Canadian rights groups demand a stronger Canadian response to the Syrian refugee crisis appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Dead Boy In The Sea
Wednesday’s Twitter feeds were jammed with the body of a young corpse of a boy facing down in the sand as an authority stood over the body and soon picked him up to carry his body away. I realized the boy was from a refugee family that didn’t make a
Continue readingThe Tory Pirate - Politics & Policy: ‘GhostVolunteer’ and why its a Bad Idea
I happened upon a Facebook discussion that had ended up on my feed due to a friend commenting on it. The discussionwas on a script called ‘GhostVolunteer‘ that would automatically fill in the volunteer form on the Conservative Partywebsite with random data. The idea being to flood the site with legitimate-looking,
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