In March of 2001, Rahim Jaffer, an Alliance MP, got into a bit of trouble when a hoax he had helped to perpetrate, blew up in his face. Jaffer then owned a string of coffee shops in Edmonton, one of them set to open on the very day that he
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Accidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Yes, the fraudulent collaboration between the Harper Cons and Sun TV should offer nothing but reason for suspicion about both portions of the right-wing noise machine – and Dr. Dawg, Heather Mallick, Simon Houpt and the Star have all had plenty to say.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jason Kenney and the Fox News North Gang
Sometimes you have to focus on the big picture. Sometimes you have to see the forest for the trees. Or just smell the manure. But here are the facts as I see them: (1) Jason Kenney, a grotesque member of the sinister Harper gang commands civil servants to organize an
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Truth, Tories and the Sun Network: ‘Let’s do it. We can fake the Oath!’
New Canadians rounded up by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s office get ready to reaffirm their citizenship oath. Actual new Canadians may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Mr. Kenney; Paraguayan-born Public “Safety” Minister Victor Toews, himself a relatively new Canadian. More than one story emanating from Ottawa yesterday revealed the
Continue readingImpolitical: The fake citizenship ceremony
“The minister is using his office like casting central…,” said Denis Coderre. While he’s at it, could Kenney cast a better individual in the role of minister, please? Original report. Of course this was worth reporting and the vigorous reaction by Sun News shows how seriously they’re taking it. And
Continue readingToronto Sun: "Feds apologize to Sun News"
“I apologize to the ‘state broadcaster’ for the bullshit we have hoisted on you.” I know, I know. I’m just the feeding the beast which in turn feeds on publicity. It doesn’t have to be good publicity for Sun, that’s not the point. The question is: how can one apologize
Continue readingTrashy's World: Faking citizenship…
This so-called “government” is such an embarrassment and its media propaganda machine is a discredit to journalism. Citizenship is something that can just can “faked” for the cameras, eh, Jason Kenney? Six federal bureaucrats were drafted to pose as new Canadians for a citizenship reaffirmation ceremony broadcast on the Sun
Continue readingSun News Network + Jason Kenney = frothy mixture
If you ever wanted to combine the worst of Conservatism – that frothy mixture of deceit, barely-veiled racism and amoral opportunism – look no further than the perfect marriage of the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism and Fox News North. Six federal bureaucrats were drafted to pose as new Canadians for a citizenship reaffirmation
Continue readingSun News Network + Jason Kenney = frothy mixture
If you ever wanted to combine the worst of Conservatism – that frothy mixture of deceit, barely-veiled racism and amoral opportunism – look no further than the perfect marriage of the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism and Fox News North. Six federal bureaucrats were drafted to pose as new Canadians
Continue readingLeftist Jab: "Let’s do it. We can fake the Oath" Sun News
Sun News Oath of Citizenship Ceremony There’s nothing quite as inspiring and patriotic as watching Canadian bureaucrats fake the Oath of Citizenship for a Sun News photo op and propaganda news segment. It was Jason Kenney’s staff that “directed departmental officials to add a last-minute citizenship ceremony at the network
Continue readingThe big Iraq FAIL. What say you now, Jason Kenney?
The first time I ever heard of Jason Kenney was the lead up to the call for a war in Iraq. Our PM Chretien was standing up to Bush as were most nations around the globe. But one little porcine man five o’clock shadowed an ugly anti-Canadianism on the horizon
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Friends with Benefits: The Harper Government, EthicalOil.org and Sun Media Connection
suntv_news.gif Just over a week before the Northern Gateway Pipeline hearings began, EthicalOil.org and its allies launched a pre-emptive PR offensive on environmental and First Nations groups who oppose the pipeline. Their new website, OurDecision.ca, and ad campaign are an attempt to invalidate opposition to the pipeline by pointing to
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Cozy Ties: Astroturf ‘Ethical Oil’ and Conservative Alliance to Promote Tar Sands Expansion
hamish marshall and stephen harper.jpg As the Northern Gateway Pipeline Project Joint Review Panel begins hearing over 4,000 comments submitted by community members, First Nations, governments, and environmental groups, the tar sands front group EthicalOil.org has launched its latest PR offensive in support of the pipeline. OurDecision.ca, the new astroturf ad
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Sad Case of Lucene Charles
Because she failed to complete the paperwork to achieve permanent residency status when she married a Canadian 15 years ago, St. Vincent native Lucene Charles, the mother of four children, three of whom were born in Canada, faces deportation. Please watch the following video and consider signing this petition to
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: the hypocrisy of ethical oil’s chiquita banana boycott.
Ethical Oil? If you have been paying any attention to Canadian politics on Twitter or have tuned into any of the Sun Media outlets over the past few days, you will have undoubtably noticed that the greenwashing website “Ethical Oil” has launched the Great Canadian Banana Boycott. Reacting to the
Continue readingShorter Jason Kenney
I hate everything and everybody but I sure love to spend their money. But, of course, isn’t that true of most of these Harpercons and those Rethuglicans south of the border these days? I’m only mentioning it because it seems that the speculation regarding Stevie Spiteful’s potential successor have begun.
Continue readingMacKay being used as scapegoat to clear path for Jason Kenney as next Conservative leader?
Interesting article in the Straight about Kenney’s ascension in the Conservative ranks. The writer Charlie Smith feels that Kenney is the logical successor to Harper, with the scandals plaguing former favourite Peter MacKay all but eliminating the very elite Minister of National Defence from contention. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has
Continue readingMacKay being used as scapegoat to clear path for Jason Kenney as next Conservative leader?
Interesting article in the Straight about Kenney’s ascension in the Conservative ranks. The writer Charlie Smith feels that Kenney is the logical successor to Harper, with the scandals plaguing former favourite Peter MacKay all but eliminating the very elite Minister of National Defence from contention. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has
Continue readingkirbycairo: The Niqab and our Discourse. . . . .
Like many of us, I have thought a great deal about the issue of the niqab in public life. The recent banning of this garment in public in France set many people thinking and talking about the question and Minister Kenney’s recent banning of the niqab in citizenship ceremonies has
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Is Jason Kenney still Roman Catholic, or does he actually accept women as equals now?
Right? I mean, that is the standard he’s claiming to set, isn’t it? The reason burkhas and niqabs have to be banned from Canada isn’t because they make women too hot in the summer sun, or because they turn women evil, but because they represent a misogynist religious faith that
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