Yesterday I wrote a post detailing a CTV report on the obstruction from the PMO over its refusal to hand over an email pertaining to the the Wright-Duffy Senate payoff scandal. The RCMP was reported as having been trying to obtain it for two months. It seems the PMO has
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Politics and its Discontents: If the Prime Minister Obstructs Justice, Isn’t It Still A Criminal Offence?
CTV reports the following: The Prime Minister’s Office has been withholding from the RCMP an email about the $90,000 cheque Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff wrote to Sen. Mike Duffy… RCMP investigators have been trying to obtain the email ever since CTV News first revealed its existence two months
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Some Low-Hanging Fruit
Or should I say pork? I have a bit of a busy morning, so I am taking the easy route for now by dedicating this photo to our ‘friends’ in the Red Chamber and their federal government enablers: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Just Because …
…he deserves all of the ridicule and contempt we can muster. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Democratic Expression of Our Discontent
Oh, this idea I like very much. And the tactic is easily adaptable in situations that could best be described as ‘fluid’: H/t Sylvia Wilson Canadians Rallying To Unseat Stephen Harper Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Tale of Two Reports
David Tkachuk Carolyn Stewart Olsen CTV’s Robert Fife has been doing exemplary work on the sordid tale of corruption and coverups in Ottawa that has been emerging these past several days. As the true nature of our Prime Minister and his regime becomes increasingly apparent to more and more Canadians,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Internet As Lie Detector
Funny thing about the Internet, isn’t it? Almost everything that is uttered or printed by public officials cannot, happily, be rewritten à la Orwell’s Nineteen -Eighty-Four. But then again, the government depicted within the novel must have felt the need to guard against uprisings by the people and so relied
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