Tag: Federal Government
Alberta Diary: Albertans have a right to ask questions about the integrity and preservation of their government’s records
Alberta Tories contemplate their departure from the Legislature. Actual Progressive Conservative Government officials may not leave office in exactly the manner illustrated. Below: But if they do, is this the fate of their secrets? Below that: the late premier Ralph Klein and privatization advocate and cabinet minister Steve West. There’s
Continue readingFederal hiring and the warrior ethos
The federal government has, it seems, something of a Jekyll and Hyde attitude towards military veterans. On the one hand, its budget-cutting has resulted in the closing of Veterans Affairs offices and a penny-pinching approach to the well-being of injured and disabled veterans. On the other hand, the government announced
Continue readingSpeak up for science
Our federal government’s lamentable attitude to science, or at least any science that doesn’t benefit business, is one of its key features. Nonetheless, Industry Canada is giving us a chance to comment on science and technology policy by inviting responses tn a “Consultation Paper.” This is your chance to offer
Continue readingLeft Over: The new Canadian Plague: Have We all been Infected?
Sadly, Rob Ford epitomises what Canada has become With his crack smoking and drunken misbehaviour, Toronto’s mayor personifies our crude, swaggering, bungling New Canada Robert Hays in the Guardian Fri Dec 13 2013 Speak for yourself, Hays..truly the East seems to have adopted the crudities of the HarperCons
Continue readingcmkl: Veterans Affairs: regional office closures. Stop ‘em
See if you can get through this three minute video without tearing up. Despite having all kinds of complex feelings about Canadians involved in places including but not limited to Afghanistan, I really feel for the men in this video who’ve been damaged by war and abandoned by the government
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