PHOTOS: Merry Christmas! Your blogger with a man who can penetrate North American air defences with ease. Russian President Vladimir Putin may not appear exactly as illustrated. (Joke.) Below: Political strategist Stephen Carter with the same blogger; Alberta pollster Janet Brown; Conservative strategist Alan Hallman, who is now associated with
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Accidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on the combination of institutional and personal flaws that’s combined to create the Stephen Harper Senate scandal. For further reading…– CBC reproduces the documents tabled by Mike Duffy in the Senate here. – The Senate debates featuring the defences of Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau can be found
Continue readingLeftist Jab: Bribery, Threats, Extortion: The Mike Duffy Story
Above is the full audio recording, with contextualizing images, of Mike Duffy’s address to the Senate in which he accuses Stephen Harper of orchestrating the alleged illegal payment he received in order to have his improperly claimed expenses disappear. What a deliciously salacious scandal to rock Stephen Harper! And Pamela
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Accountability for thee, not for we
Marjory Lebreton makes clear that as far as she’s concerned, accountability begins where partisan Con affiliation ends: Senator Wallin is no longer a member of the Caucus and must be held accountable for her actions. And needless to say the converse is also true as far as Lebreton and the
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Conservatives vs. Conservatives – Anti-union bill gets gutted in Canadian Senate
When the Federal Tories took “progressive” out of their title after merging with the Reform Party, it was inevitable that the radical right wing ideology of the Reformers would come into conflict with the more pragmatic former Progressive Conservatives. This … Continue reading →
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Bill C-304: The Final Battle?
LeBreton confirms #SenCA will sit into July if necessary to pass bills on order paper, including C-377. #cdnpoIi— Jordan Press (@jordan_press) June 18, 2013 The other bill they want to pass is C-304, which would strip section 13 (the hate speech clause) from the Canadian Human Rights Act. When Senate
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – The Star’s editorial board highlights why our elected representatives should be countering the effect of precarious employment (rather than exacerbating them as the Cons have done): Simply put, programs like Employment Insurance and the Canada Pension Plan were created back in the days
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