File this under “So amazing it’s actually true.” Stephen Harper’s constituency team have been busying themselves by adding “24 hour surveillance” stickers to their own election signs. And then removing them when CBC noticed. Article by Haydn Watters for CBC read more
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OpenMedia.ca: Let’s make Canada’s parties endorse our pro-Internet action plan
Exciting news! Green Party leader Elizabeth May has just announced her endorsement of our crowdsourced pro-Internet action plan. So far Ms. May is the first major party leader to do so – and we’re thrilled to have her waving the flag for Canada’s Internet. This is great news for Canada’s
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: For Harper, It’s Showtime – the Sequel. Fremdschamen, Indeed.
Okay, it’s not Mike Duffy. We won’t hear much of him again until the election is over. Today’s fare is more like a light lunch, maybe just a handful of trail mix. It’s Bruce Carson time! The two-time jailbird, fraudster and, naturally, top Harper aide goes back to his old
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Can Lynton Crosby Save Stephen Harper?
Big news this week for the Harper campaign watchers—uber political strategist Lynton Crosby joined the Harper campaign team. Why this is news now and not when Crosby started working with the Harper team in March is a mystery, but never mind. Mr Crosby has a stellar record. He brought John
Continue readingkirbycairo: The Facebook Problem. . . .
Imagine, if you will, young men like Stephen Harper or Jason Kenny (gasp!) growing up today in our present atmosphere of technology. Try to picture what such mens’ internet profile might look like. Take Jason Kenny – an angry, sexually ambiguous, Catholic, college drop-out. Just imagine what sorts of angry
Continue readingkirbycairo: The Tragedy that Will Return Harper to Office. . . .
We are eager to write off Harper and his government as dead in the water. We were especially eager to write them off after their reaction to the tragedy of the refugee crisis in Europe. Harper’s effort to change the channel on the terrible hardships of the refugees fleeing the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Stephen Harper’s Oily Comeuppance
A Saudi prince once said that the Stone Age didn’t end because man ran out of stones. The Age of Oil may be headed for the same fate. A Goldman Sachs outlook suggests the price of crude oil will hover around $45 a barrel for the next year or so
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Canada’s Next Tyro?
Either Tom Mulcair doesn’t know his ass from his elbow or, as some of us suspect, he’s a pandering huckster with a loose tongue who, like Harper, sees riches in trawling for bottom votes. Either way, he’s not the sort of leader any Canadian should want to re-open our constitution.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Morning Line: Conservatives 10 – 1.
(Note: Your Morning Line is prepared for each race day to give the wagering public a starting point for their Totalisator bets on the day’s races. The Totalisator then computes the betting pool as bets are received until post-time and then computes the payouts for the win, place, show and
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: A Poll Assesses Harper’s Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Nelilfu Demir’s photograph of the body of three year old Alan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach has taken its place among other iconic photographs that, in the words of Ryerson prof Paul Roth, have the power to concentrate the mind. Canadians are concentrating their minds on one question:
Continue readingLeDaro: Meanings of Life
Don’t eat apple and don’t vote for Harper.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Paul Martin Gives Tommy Angry Beard a Well-Deserved Kick in the Ass.
Paul Martin was the finance minister who plucked the federal government from the brink of fiscal chaos. It was a tough time for all including the provinces, even the Canadian Forces, but he balanced the budget and paid down $90 billion of our national debt. He kept the bankers in
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The Hair: Canada’s boy in the bubble.
In the Imperial Prime Minister’s Office of today, Canada’s Prime Minister is isolated and alone. Protected and guarded by the sycophants of privilege, his minions mind the doors. In this cloistered sanctuary, the Hair rules. There are neither naysayers nor critics allowed where the Hair travels. Audiences are vetted for
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: HarperMan
Not surprisingly, the musician is being investigated by the paranoid and vindictive Harper Government. The Streisand Effect is working though, and www.HarperMan.ca is a hit today. When I tweeted #Harperman last June & you RTed it @saskboy, I did wonder if #cpc thugs would come after Tony. They sure did.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Rabble: Fact-checking the Conservatives’ rural broadband strategy
The government’s rural broadband strategy falls way short of our digital platform and here’s why. We need to fight back by pledging to vote now at OurDigitalFuture.ca Article by Nora Loreto for Rabble.ca The 2015 federal election promises to be an ugly fight, with a lot of half-truths and fact
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Learn About Conservatives
Here’s a fun way to learn about the Conservative Party of Canada. Reminds me of how I speak of Prime Minister Harper while on Twitter, I reference this guy instead: I have been Prime Minister for 10 years. #elxn42 #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/75NRMc6HcY — Not Steve Harper (@pmoharper) August 4, 2015
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Pay To Access Harper
A lot has been said recently about people paying to have access to the Prime Minister. @Justin_Ling @saskboy you are being told what to write?if i an issue with that — shawn d hill (@nbf54321) July 8, 2015 Ling has said: So @KoryCPC asked me to write a story about
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Badge
Here’s a joke about the Boy Scouts standing behind Harper for a photo-op he arranged. #HarperScoutBadges: The "Wipe the Logs of the Robocall Database" badge #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/jKbVfdL7oM — Stephen Lautens (@stephenlautens) August 21, 2015 Scouts aren’t allowed to appear in uniform at political events.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Wherein John Ibbitson Explores the Darkness that Lurks Within Stephen Harper
Let’s be blunt. John Ibbitson is probably the most prominent journalist in Canada totally in the bag for Stephen Harper. Note that I used the word “journalist,” a noun that eliminates most of the hydrophobic scribes at PostMedia. When it comes to Harper you can trust Ibbitson never to put
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Will Sergeant Horton Please Take the Stand
There’s a critical aspect to the Duffy trial that we’re not going to get out of Harper’s PMO staff or his “loyal unto death” shills in the Senate or the Conservative Party executive. It’s an aspect that goes to what appears to be a political prosecution that, it could be
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