Ford’s financial numbers don’t add up – The Globe and MailRob Ford claimed the other day to have saved the city $70 million in the first six months. In this Globe & Mail story, they reported that most of that was the money from the vehicle regi…
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Driving The Porcelain Bus: Noncommittal Rob Ford brushes off $130 million + $49 million wasted in cancelling Transit City
Metro – Ford deals death blow to Transit CityToronto must pay at least $49M to cancel LRT planI was waiting for more numbers to come in before posting this. So far, we have a waste, by Ford, of $179 million.From the Metro article:Ford was noncommittal …
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: RCMP to investigate the Looters In Suits $50 million expenditure 100km from Huntsville (un-approved G8 spending)
RCMP finally investigates Muskoka’s G8 ‘Legacy Infrastructure’ « the reeves reportExcerpt from The Reeves Report:Because of an election-time early leak of the Auditor General’s G8 report which I wrote about here, many opposition MP’s were su…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: NDP warns against Conservatives’ snooping law
NDP warns against Conservatives’ snooping law TIMMINS, ON – If the Conservatives get their way, police will be soon be able to track every e-mail sent, every website visited and every comment left on Facebook – all without warrants or judicial …
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Rob Ford to Toronto – Pride’s over, who can I snub next?
James: Toronto elected a mayor, not a priest – thestar.comThose huge numbers of supporters who argue that the mayor should have the right to go where he wants and support whichever events he chooses, choose to forget this: Tomorrow, you will be the one…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Conservatives give away Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd and pay the new owners $60 million
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. sold to SNC-Lavalin Group for $15 million – Winnipeg Free PressYesterday, the federal government sold crown corporation, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., to the Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin Group. The price tag was $15 million. …
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Sun News reporter’s conduct results in thousands of complaints
Complaints over Sun News interview overwhelm watchdog – The Globe and MailNo surprise here.Excerpt from article:Viewers have sent in more than 4,350 complaints since the interview aired on the Sun News program Canada Live on June 1. The CBSC receives o…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: CUPW will challenge the back-to-work legislation
Canada Post union to challenge back-to-work legislation in court – thestar.comAs I was pointing out, the legislation is illegal, and the union is going to challenge it in court. Now the decision will depend on if Harper has stacked the Supreme Court wi…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Con Reasoning: We’re corrupt, so we’ll put the most corrupt in charge of the money
Fraud-charged Senator leads Tory fundraising review
Irving Gerstein, Harper-appointed Senator, Conservative Fund Board Chair, who, along with 3 other Conservative officials, was charged in the In and Out affair (election fraud from the previous electio…
Driving The Porcelain Bus: Looters in Suits (The Harper Conservative government) outed – again. G8 Spending.
Ministers didn’t follow policies for G8 spending: AG – Politics – CBC News
The report shows that the Conservatives spent money in their ridings ignoring their own guidelines and transparency, and without reason, basically looting from government funds …
Politics, 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 readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Actually Stephen, the taxpayers dollars go to the parties they support.
Budget will mean curtains for party funds: minister | iPoliticsStephen Harper is lying to the public, again. He is trying to make you think that you are funding parties you don’t support. Well, you don’t.Currently, political parties receive $2 annually…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Conservatives, I mean "Looters in Suits", continue with their plan – theft on a national scale
Montreal Simon: Tony Clement and the Chainsaw MassacreAnd that’s the Con plan. Right out of the Republican manual. First you waste billions on gazebos, prisons and fancy jet planes. Then you cut the GST and corporate taxes and starve the government of …
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: "This Stinks To High Heaven" – Ford’s disrespect for taxpayers
The Grid TO | Thirteen questions about Rob Ford’s questionable accountingBy Edward Keenan…The problem is that candidates are forbidden from taking loans from anyone except banks and other recognized lending institutions. Even candidates themselves …
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Coward Thug Harper Appoints More Failures To The Senate
PM rewards three defeated Conservatives with Senate seats – The Globe and MailHow to become a senator under Harper? Show that the people don’t want you to represent them. Another way Harper shows his contempt for the Canadian people.Stephen Harper wast…
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: A Compendium of My Prime Minister Layton Posts
I’ve enjoyed writing four pieces about the Prime Minster Layton concept in the last 2.5 years. Originally, it was a wishful thinking hyper long-shot in a prorogation crisis at a time when the Liberals had no firm leader. Then in June 2010 it was a curiosity when polling indicated a Jack Layton-led coalition with the […]
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Stephen Harper Doing What Comes Naturally
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Continue readingSeeing Red in the Southwest: Tough on Crime, eh?
Steven Harper would have you believe that the opposition parties are at fault for bringing the government of Canada down somewhat prematurely. That’s a little like spitting at the judge on your way to prison.If Steven Harper and his MPs had provided …
Continue readingSeeing Red in the Southwest: Tough on Crime, eh?
Steven Harper would have you believe that the opposition parties are at fault for bringing the government of Canada down somewhat prematurely. That’s a little like spitting at the judge on your way to prison.If Steven Harper and his MPs had provided Parliament with the information they require to make
Continue readingSeeing Red in the Southwest: Tough on Crime, eh?
Steven Harper would have you believe that the opposition parties are at fault for bringing the government of Canada down somewhat prematurely. That’s a little like spitting at the judge on your way to prison.If Steven Harper and his MPs had provided Parliament with the information they require to make
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