Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I done it again. Here’s a new song all about Steve Harper set to the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song. The Ballad of Steve Harper Come and listen to my story ’bout a man named SteveSneaky politician, dirty tricks up his sleeveThe oil
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JimBobby Sez: New Song: "The Ballad of Steve Harper"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I done it again. Here’s a new song all about Steve Harper set to the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song. The Ballad of Steve HarperCome and listen to my story ’bout a man named SteveSneaky politician, dirty…
Continue readingThe Equivocator: “Pennies 4 Katimavik” Launches Today!
Pennies 4 Katimavik (a campaign spearheaded by Bismah Haq) is officially launching today in Ottawa at 2:30pm (click here for the facebook event.) When I heard about this campaign I was very excited. Axing the program was one of the Harper government’s most maliciously-arbitrary decisions in the 2012 budget. I
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Robocon blogging
I don’t often write about polls but I’ll make time for this one. In support of their lawsuit contesting the results of last May’s federal election in seven ridings, the Council of Canadians commissioned EKOS Research Associates to do a study. EKOS investigated the occurrence of fraudulent phone calls in
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Robocon blogging
The story of vote suppression in last year’s federal election has moved ahead this week on two different tracks. Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher, the journalists who originally broke the story of the Elections Canada investigation, delivered another installment this week. They’re reporting that EC investigators have now shifted their
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Harper Declares War!
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, Steve Harper reckons he knows who the enemy is an’ he declared war.
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Harper Declares War!
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, Steve Harper reckons he knows who the enemy is an’ he declared war.
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Harper Declares War!
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, Steve Harper reckons he knows who the enemy is an’ he declared war.
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Is this really the story you want go with?
Burke campaign paperwork could have aided Guelph robodialling A mysterious operative known only as Pierre Poutine could have obtained the ammunition he needed to launch his election-day attack on the electorate simply by walking into the campaign office of Guelph Conservative candidate Marty Burke. … …sources close to the Burke
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: A little Friday morning Robocon blogging
This will be a short post for the simple reason that there hasn’t been a lot of movement on this story in the last week. The most dramatic development was the claim by Brian-Michel LaRue at #CDNPOLI that the real identity of Pierre Poutine is Andrew Prescott, who was the
Continue readingbastard.logic: On That Zombie Suzuki Resignation Story
The Globe: Canada’s most famous environmentalist, David Suzuki, says he left the board of his charitable foundation to avoid being a lightning rod for criticism and government attacks that would undermine its work. Still, Peter Robinson, who is the head of the David Suzuki Foundation, said the group is facing
Continue readingPolygonic: MacKay: We’re just as dodgy with our accounting as Sponsorship-era Liberals
Duhhhhr! Ooonnggg… errrrggg…. Out of the mouths of babes. It’s been an awkward delight watching Conservative spinmeisters trot out Plan A through Plan W in their Catalogue of Flimsy Excuses over the F-35 affair. Blaming bureaucrats didn’t cut it, even blaming the other parties hasn’t cut it. One waits with
Continue readingbastard.logic: Dueling Ledes (Compare & Contrast), Redux
AP video, Feb 15, 2011: A recent [US] government report states the terrorist threat from Canada is greater than from Mexico, and that only 50 kilometres of the border is adequately patrolled. CBC News, today: Major job cuts at the Canada Border Services Agency could undermine national security and public
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TorStar, March 20th: Schools, hospitals and popular burger restaurants such as Hero’s and Lick’s are part of a suddenly massive beef recall over fears of E. coli contamination. The G&M, today: Veterinarians and other inspectors responsible for food recalls and ensuring the safety of Canadian meat are among the hundreds
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday Robocon program related activities blogging
Since the dramatic revelations in last week’s committee testimony by Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand, there has been very little additional movement in the main robocon story. For the moment, it’s up to Elections Canada to keep digging. But journalists and bloggers are trying to fill in some of the
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: QOTD: On the F-35
Michael Harris writing at iPolitics in the aftermath of the Auditor General’s report on the F-35 fiasco: Since the finding that the Harper government was in contempt of parliament, it has all been downhill. The committee system is now like a perpetual meeting of the Skull and Bones society. When
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Robocon blogging
Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand appeared before the Procedure and House Affairs Committee yesterday and gave us a whole new set of numbers to talk about. Elections Canada has more than 800 specific complaints of wrongdoing with regards to last year’s federal election involving approximately 200 ridings right across
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Robocon blogging
I was off the grid for a couple of days and have spent this morning trying to pick up the threads of this story. I’m relying primarily on other bloggers to get a sense of where things stand. Right now it looks like it’s a waiting game to see both
Continue readingTrashy's World: My debate teacher told us that…
… ad hominem attacks were cowardly and used only by those of inferior intellect. And I agree. Yet the CPC doesn’t see it this way. Politics over policy. Attacks over debate. Accusations over cooperation. It’s the Stephen Harper Way. Daniel Veniez penned a good article in iPolitics about the latest
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Robocon blogging
I had fully intended to do a recap of the week’s news regarding the investigation into the possibility of vote suppression in last year’s federal election and yesterday afternoon I began to draft something. Yesterday evening I saw the news and gutted the first few paragraphs of the draft. Since
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