Don’t you love the Globe & Mail? Is the Globe serious with this stupid headline? It reads like a statement from the PMO. This is why Anonymous exists. When the government and the media collude to cover up and promote one party’s agenda, we need groups like Anonymous. You want
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350 or bust: PMO Issues Alert: “Foreign Radicals Threaten Further Delays”
Last night, Prime Minister Harper’s office sent off this “alert” to the media folks on its mailing list (via Kady O’Malley at the CBC). When I first read it, I thought it was political satire out of the pages of Rick Mercer or the gang over at This Hour Has
Continue readingChris Tindal: Who is Andrew Frank?
Andrew Frank, who on Monday was fired from ForestEthics for going public with accusations that someone in the PMO labeled the organization an “Enemy of the Government of Canada” and of the “people of Canada,” was an annoying classmate. Actually, he could be a complete pain in the ass. Unlike
Continue readingImpolitical: Merry Christmas Jean Chretien
Continuing on in the festive spirit around here today, it’s another pre-Christmas story to note: Ottawa has to pay $200,000 in legal costs incurred by Jean Chrétien in his fight to restore his name after being blamed for the sponsorship scandal by the Gomery inquiry in 2005. However, the Prime
Continue readingIt’s Your Turn PMO
It seems that the NDP has given the Conservative government a well deserved slap in the face. After weeks of hounding CBC to produce documents about their internal operations, likely to give competitors an inside look at how the Crown Corporation operates, a question has now been put on the order paper
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: With Persichilli Appointment, PM Harper Shows Quebec The Political Middle Finger, Embraces The Ethnic Vote
Quebec will not be a priority for the Conservative Canadian Prime Minister during the next four years of his comfortable majority rule. That was the message Stephen Harper sent with his appointment this week of Angelo Persichilli as the new director of…
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Almost as surprising as Duffy being named to the Senate..
..is that Angelo Perchelli, formerly of the Toronto Star, is now going to be the new Director of Communications for the PMO. He’s perfectly suited to it, as he has plenty of practise from his Star column writing hack pieces for the Conservatives….
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Angelo Persichilli – Now An Official Partisan Hack
Yeah, can anyone honestly say they didn’t expect this? I can’t.Who would think to name him director of communications, though? He can barely writeAddendum:Actually, I take that back. Angelo has some major ties to a lot of the ethnic-based media outlets…
Continue readingAnother Canadian muzzled by Harper
Franke James, you are not alone. It’s not just the arts that get the Harper thug treatment. Science, the other most hated discipline of Conservatives, is also subject to censorship and the silent treatment. The following bit of horror comes from Postme…
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 readingMore Notes From Underground: Harper’s Vision For Canada
Here’s the criminal justice part of it via the superb QI: Unless you work in the PMO, that’s different somehow.
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