Another one sends his greetings from jail in Panama. The disgraced Arthur Porter, the Harper-appointed former Chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee of Canada and alleged fraudster, has a message for his former good buddy: Porter told The Canadian Press in a recent phone interview from La Joya prison
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Politics and its Discontents: Tells You All You Need To Know, Doesn’t It
It is a mental picture I hope all Canadians carry to the polls this October: “To Duff, a great journalist and a great senator, thanks for being one of my best, hardest-working appointments ever,” reads a photo signed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper entered as an exhibit Thursday. Recommend this
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And who says there’s nothing to look forward to? Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: If Only Our Politicians Felt This Sense Of Shame
Perhaps it’s time to send Pamela Wallin and Diane Finley to obedience school? Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Something All Canadians Need To Hear
Many thanks to The Salamander for alerting me to this video, which Richard Hughes posted on his blog, Cowichan Conversations. I am reposting it here, and encourage all progressive bloggers to consider doing the same on their sites. This eloquent message reminds all of us of the myriad failures of
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Diseased Leadership
Almost four years ago I wrote a post on failed leadership, using the Elizabethan notion of The Great Chain of Being as it pertained to the relationship between the governed and those who govern. In essence it postulated that if the leader was good, the nation would prosper, but if
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Wheels Of The Bus….
have been very busy of late: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Citizenship For Sale
Are there things that money shouldn’t be able to buy? In an age when the ‘wisdom of the market’ is an orthodoxy embraced by many, it is a question that the neoconservative agenda would suggest borders on heresy. Yet that is precisely the question economist Michael J. Sandel poses in
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: For The Record
About the undercarriage of that busy Tory bus, Star readers have much to say: Ex-Tory staffer jailed nine months for robocalls, Nov. 20 My sympathies go out to Michael Sona and his family, the latest addition of those people used by the Harper government and then thrown under the bus
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Canada’s Fearless Tax Warrior
That intrepid capeless crusader for core Conservative concepts, Finance Minister ‘Uncle’ Joe Oliver, has found yet another weapon in his utility pouch to save us from the implacable clutches of taxation. Rather than rely on a bureaucracy that may be rife with ‘fifth columnists, Oliver has decided to outsource fiscal
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: There Wasn’t A Moist Eye In The House
With the exception of that maudlin master of emotion, the disgraced Dean Del Mastro, Members of Parliament seemed strangely unmoved by the self-proclaimed victim of injustice as he announced his resignation yesterday. For a full display of ‘Mr. Peterborough’s’ emotive and rhetorical range and a recounting of his ‘legendary’ achievements
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: In The Outer World
…no one can hear Dean Del Mastro scream his innocence despite his conviction on three counts of overspending in his 2008 election campaign. In Del Mastro world, however, his guilt is just a subjective matter: The judge’s ruling “was not a final decision,” Del Mastro said. “I’ve in no way
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More On The Walking Dead
My friend Dave in Winnipeg is always urging me to subscribe to Frank magazine for its unforgiving political assessments, the kind of commentary that rarely, if ever, finds its way into the MSM. It is advice I should heed. Not one to show respect for the politically deceased, Frank offers
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: It’s Hard To Keep A Dead Man Down
Even though it is a day past Halloween, don’t let your guard down just yet. The dead still walk among us. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: That Was Then, This Is Now
Brent Rathgeber, the independent MP who left the Conservative caucus last year, reflects upon the corrruption of Stephen Harper: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Some Nightmares Are Real
Sleep tight, Prime Minister Harper. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Will The Harper Promise Of Tax Breaks Continue To Seduce Canadians?
Recently, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne called upon the Harper regime to commit $12 billion annually in infrastructure funding. This request takes on even greater urgency in light of the challenges we are and will be facing as we reap the consequences of climate change. Fiance Minister Joe Oliver’s response: Wynne’s
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: No Words Needed Here
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Conspiracy Of One
It’s not uncommon for an RCMP Commissioner to jump through hoops at Stephen Harper’s bequest. We saw that when Zaccardelli gave Harper a leg up to victory by conjuring up an empty scandal about Ralph Goodale in mid-election campaign. Ominously for a country based on the rule of law, Zac
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More On Duffy
Like many others, I have been trying to fathom how Nigel Wright has escaped without charges for the cheque he wrote to Mike Duffy, while the latter has been charged with accepting a bribe. I have also been attempting to get video of two programs, Power and Politics and last
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