Plus a sobering rebuke of Mr. Harper in this morning’s Star editorial: “This sordid saga of improper Conservative behaviour, high-level secrecy and winking at wrongdoing has infuriated Canadians, disgraced the unelected Red Chamber, and spurred renewed interest in its abolition.” Recommend this Post
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Politics and its Discontents: "…a bombastic partisan apologist for the prime minister "
The above is one of the descriptions offered of the much beleaguered ‘PEI’ Senator Mike Duffy in a trenchant assessment written by the Star’s Tim Harper in today’s edition. Harper reminds us of the ease with which the Puffster abandoned whatever journalistic integrity he might have once possessed as soon
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Why Is This Man Smiling?
Could it have anything to do with the fact that he has made a successful career out of masquerades? First, of course, Mike Duffy donned the mask of a political reporter, pretending to be an objective seeker of the truth, initially for CBC and then later for CTV, all the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Democracy Watch’s Indictment of Harper Government Hypocrisy
The following concise indictment of Harper corruption and hypocrisy says a great deal, doesn’t it? PM’s ex-aide charged with fraud, July 28 The federal Conservatives responded to the influence-peddling charges that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former adviser Bruce Carson is facing by with this statement: “Any individual who doesn’t respect
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