Canadian Press follows up on its ongoing reporting of the use of the “Harper Government” moniker in government communications. The government is shown to have lied about its denials that a formal directive on the use of “Harper Government” existed. Industry Canada’s emails and edited releases from autumn 2010 make
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Do We Need More Proof That Harper Doubts Global Warming?
First we had the cuts to ozone monitoring that saw the shuttering of 17 ozone monitoring stations across Canada. The reason? Ozone apparently wasn’t a concern anymore (see Canada’s newest Ozone hole here). Then we had the sudden (and somewhat expected) cut of 700 jobs from environment Canada (which included Meteorologists, scientists, chemists and
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Star Readers and Harper Government’s Injustice to Sayed Shah Sharifi’s
While I rarely excerpt long passages from other sources fro my blog, I am making an exception today to print the reactions of Toronto Star readers to the cruel abandonment by the Harper government of Sayed Shah Sharifi, the brave Afghan interpreter who served our troops so valiantly: I was
Continue readingImpolitical: The HGRCMP
A new public relations protocol comes into being for the RCMP and it is leaked to the Toronto Star: “Government puts tighter leash on RCMP public statements.” So what are the Harper government inappropriately up to with the RCMP? A lengthy excerpt but warranted: The Star obtained a copy of
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Voters trounce P3 proposal
One interesting result from Saturday’s municipal elections was Abbotsford voters’ indisputable rejection of water supply privatization. New mayor Bruce Banman, an opponent of water delivery through a proposed P3, believes the single most important message was that citizens wanted, “a more open, transparent government and more public involvement in important
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: On Global Day of Action, Occupy Ottawa flexes underrated muscle
By Obert Madondo Even as the threat of eviction from Confederation Park looms larger, the Occupy Ottawa movement is getting stronger, says Arun Smith. Yesterday, the movement held simultaneous marches before four key Ottawa landmarks: …Read More
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Shocking RCMP performance
Documents on tortured Canadian Almalki say he posed no terrorist threat, Andrew Duffy, Postmedia News, October 25, 2011
OTTAWA — Ottawa engineer Abdullah Almalki says new documents show the RCMP’s assessment of his terrorist threat was both wholly…
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Occupy Ottawa to Join Air Canada Flight Attendants Rally on Parliament Hill
The General Assembly (GA) of Occupy Ottawa last night resolved to join Air Canada flight attendants’ rally on Parliament Hill at 12:00 noon on Friday, Friday, October 21, 2011. Occupy Ottawa is encouraging all in the movement to come out and “…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Virtue in short supply
ETHICS:
A matter of daily practical concern described glowingly in universal terms by those who intend to ignore them.
– John Ralston Saul
From West Coast Environmental Law, 11 October, 2011
In a recent post we explained that Taseko’s “New Prosperi…
Blunt Objects: Texans Shoot Holes Through Harper Crime Plan
You can’t make this stuff up, folks:Conservatives in the United States’ toughest crime-fighting jurisdiction — Texas — say the Harper government’s crime strategy won’t work. “You will spend billions and billions and billions on locking people up,” …
Continue readingHarper: The Private Members Bill Puppet Master
Doesn’t it seem too much of a coincidence that upon the resumption of the new session of parliament all these new private members bills are coming from his back benches? Certainly there have been private members bills before but usually they are …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Defective Government on Both Sides of the Atlantic
All too often these days we’re visited with the consequences of defective government. By defective government I mean the weak leadership incapable of taking the hard decisions necessary to benefit the country and future generations. D…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: As Usual, The CBC Is Under Attack By The Right-Wing
I have written before about how I feel that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has, in many ways, sold out to the Conservative Government. Undoubtedly not having understood the sad history of appeasement, they have pursued that profitless course, tr…
Continue reading350 or bust: Just Say No – It’s Time For Canada To Wean Itself Off Its Addiction to Tar Sands Crude
This hour protestors are gathering on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, to show their opposition to the Alberta tar sands, and specifically the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline that could be built from Alberta across the U.S. to carry tar sands bitumen to Texas …
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Love, Bob
April 17, 2010 — “You are so beautiful. I really like the picture of you by the water with your cheeks puffed. That look is so cute, I love it when you do that. Now, I miss you even more.” April 19, 2010 — ”Watch the vote, I will smile at
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Asbestos Wars – My Respone To The Position Of My Conservative MP
Given Canada’s unconscionable ongoing export of death (i.e., asbestos) and given that it is back in the media spotlight thanks to the brave efforts of Michaela Keyserlingk, about whom I wrote a brief posting yesterday, now seems a propitious moment to …
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Saturday News Smash-Up
Sorry about my absence for the last five days, but I’ve been going to “school” and attempting to learn basic Spanish. Suffice to say, yo no hablo espanol, pero poco a poco, yo aprendo.Anyways, it hasn’t been an exactly major week anyways, not after the…
Continue readingLeDaro: AECL: Harper Government Sells to SNC-Lavalin
The gist of the story is that the seller – the Government of Canada – will pay $75 million to SNC-Lavalin for some new initiatives, and the buyer will write a cheque for only $15 million to buy AECL. That’s a great deal, eh. It does not end the…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: The Greedy PMO
This article by itself shows why this Conservative government should have little standing among the Canadian public interested in cutting expenses:
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s own department has repeatedly broken the government’s tough rules for…
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Lather, Rinse; Repeat, as needed!
Apparently, if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it… at least, 39.62% of the Canadians who took the time to vote believe it — all of it.
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