Yesterday I warned that the Cons, with the help of the Con media, were trying to whitewash Stephen Harper’s monstrous legacy.
As Michelle Rempel has been trying to do…
Against all odds.
And sure enough here comes another Con fluffer…
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Tag: Peter MacKay
Montreal Simon: Justin Trudeau, Stephen Harper, and Nerve of Peter MacKay
I was quite enjoying watching the pictures of Justin Trudeau in New York last night, championing the cause of gender equality. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was lauded as an "agent of change" at the United Nations today for pushing gender…
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski called female candidate an “NDP whore”
In yet another example of pervasive misogyny in Canada, a new YouTube video shows Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski calling a provincial candidate an “NDP whore.”
The post Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski called female candidate an “NDP whore” appeared…
Montreal Simon: Why Peter MacKay Should Not Lead Any Canadian Party
When I saw Peter MacKay heading off into the sunset, and paying for his own flight for a change.After jumping over the side of the sinking Con ship… I was hopeful that we'd seen the last of him.But sadly it's pretty clear now, even if he won't admit it, that
Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff Happens, week 22: A death in Edmonton; Peter MacKlown strikes again; an NDP miscue
A dark week in Edmonton. Const. Daniel Woodall, performing what should have been a fairly routine arrest at a west Edmonton home, was greeted with a hail of gunfire that took his life, and injured another officer. It’s an oft-repeated cliche (that’s what makes it a cliche) that cops never know when the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Real Reason the Con Clown Peter MacKay Resigned
Greg Perry/Toronto StarOh boy. I should have figured it out. I should have known the real reason Peter MacKay decided to resign just a few months before an election.Suddenly decided to ride off gently, or clatter off noisily into the sunset.He may have wanted to spend more time with his young
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Peter MacKay In Farewell Profile
Happy trails to you, Peter. H/t Greg Perry Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: He Won’t Be Missed
H/t Michael de Adder Anyone who regularly reads this blog will know that I (along with guest posters The Salamander and The Mound of Sound) regard Peter MacKay as just one of far too many blights on the political landscape, perhaps distinguished only by his less-than-pedestrian intellect and very public
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Desperate Loneliness of Stephen Harper
I've watched a lot of Stephen Harper speeches over the years, but the farewell speech he gave for Peter MacKay yesterday had to be one of the most bizarre.For not only was Harper strangely agitated, and managing to look both cheerful and horribly lonely at the same time.What was supposed
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Abominable Legacy of the Con Clown Peter MacKay
Well I see Peter Dumbo MacKay is going to have a lot more time for fishing, and has announced that he is finally resigning.And since politicians of all parties are falling over themselves to praise him, I thought I should take some time to set the record straight.And remind everyone of
Continue readingBlevkog: A question for the crowd…
Today’s announcement that Peter MacKay is not going to run for his seat in Parliament this fall has me thinking that maybe this is a sign that Stephen Harper is losing control of his party finally. Some months ago when John Baird announced that he was stepping down to spend
Continue readingBlevkog: The miracle of birth…
It’s so thrilling to see a foundling cracking the shell for its first few pecks at freedom. (And never has a better beak been built to crack one, too!) And now, with today’s announcement, Peter MacKay marks his transition from pupa form (Canadian politician) to what I can only assume
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta Politics: Politicians with embarrassing Facebook photos? Get used to it.
Since Alberta’s provincial election on May 5, Calgary-Bow MLA-elect Deborah Drever has been the target of much criticism over some photos posted on Facebook from before she was a candidate. Working towards a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology at Mount Royal University,… Continue Reading →
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Duffy Diary and the Panic in the PMO
Lordy. The Duffy trial is just beginning, and I don't think I've ever seen the fanatics in the PMO looking so frightened, or their Great Leader in a such a state of obvious panic.And it's not just because so many of them are going to have to testify under oath,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On unclear motivations
Shorter Peter MacKay: We should tremble in our boots at the possibility that the people plotting a mass shooting in Halifax might have been susceptible to motivation by religious fervour. But if they’d instead carried out their actual plan, we should be willing to write off the resulting deaths as
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Peter’s Porky Pals
One of the perks that comes with being justice minister is the ability to lay on the pork. Peter MacKay seems to have that well in hand. Why, just ask his personal friends – the gang who Peter has appointed to the bench in Nova Scotia. MacKay was appointed attorney
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Paul Rosenberg writes about the high-priced effort to undermine public institutions and the collective good in the U.S. And Paul Krugman highlights how the Republicans’ stubborn belief in the impossibly of good government (regardless of large amounts of evidence that such a thing
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Further Insane Adventures of Peter Dumbo Mackay
Once upon a time I thought that Peter MacKay was a fairly harmless Con buffoon, of limited intelligence, masquerading as a minister.The happy idiot who was easily conned into selling the once proud Progressive Conservative party, and his soul, to Stephen Harper and his Reform rednecks.The hopeless loser who shamelessly
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Open Letter to Canadian MPs: Vote Against Conservatives’ Bill C-13
Over 30 individuals and organizations concerned with women’s equality online call on Canadian MPs to vote against the Conservatives’ Bill C-13, the deceptively named “Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act”. The post Open Letter to Canadian MPs: Vote Against Conservatives’ Bill C-13 appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Peter MacKay and the Great War on Marijuana and the Police
I suppose it was too good to be true. Most things in Harperland are like that eh? Any good idea that sticks its head above the ground is mown down by the ghastly Cons.So one moment I'm pleasantly surprised by the RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson, telling a reporter that marijuana use is
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