It’s amazing how a cabinet minister can go to pieces when confronted with a little informed dissent. Ladies and gentlemen, the Honorable Joe Oliver: Minister, Conservative MP, sulky child. Thanks to NH for the tip!
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Trashy's World: I don’t get it…
… because I clearly recall the Cons lambasting the Grits and Dippers, not so long ago, for being in bed with the separatists. Ahhhh… but not the BQ type of separatist, but the PQ species. They’re different, you know. Or could it be that the Harperites are desperate to build
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Adventures with Elections Canada blogging
I guess I should thank McGregor and Maher for breaking some stories over the last couple of days so I’d have something to write about. The big news involving the main robocon story is the retirement of Commissioner of Canada Elections William Corbett, the official who directly oversees Elections Canada
Continue readingTrashy's World: Stay classy, Mr. Kenney…
… stay classy. Interesting though how this exposes the deep rift between the wacko right in the CPC and their more moderate and sane cousins in Alberta. (18) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingTrashy's World: Hmmm…
… if I wanted to skirt election campaign funding rules, this would be an effective way to go about it. Illegal, but effective. Numerous sections of the Elections Act forbid donors from exceeding the individual limit on donations by concealing their donations and forbid others from helping to conceal the
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Robocon etc. blogging
About three weeks ago the Conservative Party presented a Federal Court with a 690 page affidavit designed to demonstrate that the Council of Canadians has been mean to Conservatives. And since that nasty Maude Barlow and her union-elite-loving lawyer actually have opinions about things, they should be disqualified from sponsoring
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: A bit of Friday Robocon blogging
I usually do this in the morning. It would be neat if the reason I’m behind schedule is because there’s so much news regarding the case of the fraudulent phone calls but, sadly, no. All we’ve heard is news about the money Elections Canada is forecasting that they’ll be spending
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Robocon blogging
Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand testified before a parliamentary committee on Tuesday and the media reports on his appearance seem to have created some confusion. Mayrand had originally suggested that he would update that committee on the Robocon investigation in June — this month. But he indicated on Tuesday that
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Robocon blogging
It’s interesting that in the course of accusing participants in legal proceedings of abuse of process, the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) is appealing to guilt by association. And it was nice of everyone to ensure that there was a big development in this story just in time for a
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Add ‘Dutch Disease’ to climate change as real phenomena denied by Stephen Harper’s neo-Conmen
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, above right, presents his petroleum-development policy package to members of his oil patch caucus. Industry-financed Western politicians may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: the real Mr. Harper and Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair. If the Alberta and federal governments’ mismanagement of oil sands development were not
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning No News Isn’t Necessarily Good News blogging
A few minutes after I posted last Friday’s installment, the CBC posted their own report on what were the latest developments at that point. Most of it was a rehash of the other stories I noted last week but in light of a subsequent report, this seems worth noting: Conservative
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Opportunistic Conservative attack on green charities highlights tax abuses by Tory cronies
Charity: Right-wing think tanks and Ducks Unlimited are most certainly not exactly as illustrated. Below: Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and National Revenue Minister Gail Shea. Supporters of the Harper Government’s campaign to use tax laws to de-fund its opponents need to be careful what they wish for. They might just
Continue readingJames Moore, all your child are belong to us!
Museum’s sex show gets dressing down from feds- Politics – Canoe.ca. I was raised by prudes who never gave me “the talk.” I grew up in an uptight, WASP suburb and traded it in for a redneck farming community. I learned nothing about sex. And I’m gay. I’m pretty damn
Continue readingThe Leadership Narrative
Way back when, a few months after the last federal election, I replied to the Susan Delacourt’s “Is the Liberal Party dead?” question, echoed ad nauseum in the nation’s press, with a warning to be wary of forcing Canadian politics to fit a certain narrative. That narrative presupposes the inevitability
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday Robocon rant
This post will be a little short on details but it will provide the links so you can follow them and fill in the blanks if you don’t get the references. The main point is that I’m joining with bloggers at The Sixth Estate, Saskboy’s Abandoned Stuff (any number of
Continue readingTrashy's World: The CPC is taking the NDP rise in the polls…
… quite well, I’d say… Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: A little Friday morning Robocon blogging
According to someone who knows a bit about using telephones to suppress the vote, what happened in last year’s federal election campaign was “a fairly sophisticated operation” that was likely based on lessons learned in American political campaigns. That’s from a former Republican political operative named Allen Raymond who served
Continue readingWomen in politics: the “squeeze” factor
As any student of Canadian politics knows, Ellen Fairclough was Canada’s first female cabinet minister, appointed by Diefenbaker in 1957 and serving until her defeat as MP for Hamilton West in 1963. I have mixed feelings about Fairclough’s politics: she did good work on the immigration file, but she was
Continue readingJimBobby 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 Harper Come and listen to my story ’bout a man named SteveSneaky politician, dirty tricks up his sleeveThe oil
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