It was bad. It was really bad. It was the worst week the Conservatives have had since they became a Majority Government. Bill C-30, the “Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act” allows the Government and Canadian authorities to track the digital footprint of Canadian citizens without a warrant in situations
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Compare And Contrast
The LPoC owns up; the CPoC stonewalls. Worst part is Kinsella was right and we’ll never hear the end of it.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: LeadNow and Oust the Dear Leader
I sent a customized form letter to the Prime Minister, the heads of the RCMP and Elections Canada, and opposition party leaders. Goodale is CCed supposedly. I’m curious to see who responds, with what. It’s to protest the stolen May 2, 2012 election, when Conservatives interfered in multiple ridings by
Continue readingImpolitical: Harper strategy unfolds
Having just watched Question Period, we can see a bit of the Harper strategy in dealing with this election cheating scandal unfold. Recall that this is the Prime Minister who ran away from a confidence vote that was sure to defeat his government, in late fall of 2008, and who
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Public Responds To Conservative Voter-Suppression Crimes
While I normally spend little time reading readers’ on-line comments in The Globe and Mail, these, I think, help to capture the fury more and more of the public is feeling over Harper-inspired malfeasance. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: John Ibbitson’s Faith In Stephen Harper
While acknowledging the seriousness of the voter suppression crimes being uncovered, The Globe’s John Ibbitson writes the following: … we can be reasonably certain that Mr. Harper, who is Leader of the Conservative Party as well as Prime Minister, knew nothing about what was going on in Guelph or elsewhere.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – In the surest sign yet that the Robocon scandal involved a calculated decision by political operatives rather than having anything to do with mere overzealous volunteers, the Star reports that call centre staff hired by the Cons to perform live calling actually tried
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Is That Pungent Odor Coming From A Smoking Gun?
If the Canadian media and the Oppositions parties do their jobs, perhaps we’ll soon have an answer. The following is reported in today’s Star: Callers on behalf of the federal Conservative Party were instructed in the days before last year’s election to read scripts telling voters that Elections Canada had
Continue readingImpolitical: Today in Robocon
1. There’s a huge story in the Star that will move Robocon much further down the road: “Conservative scripts misdirected voters in 2011 election, say call centre staff.“ Callers on behalf of the federal Conservative Party were instructed in the days before last year’s election to read scripts telling voters
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Robocon Strategy Emerges
The Conservative party does not need to investigate the issue of “robocalls” any further, according to Defence Minister Peter MacKay. He also refers to the “one individual involved”, who is no longer with the party. Didn’t see that one coming. Update: OTTAWA—Callers on behalf of the federal Conservative Party were
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to close out your weekend. – Erica Alini points out that the effect of the Cons’ lobbying on behalf of the tar sands has been solely to make sure that the absolute worst polluters force the public to pay the cost of their activities, as anybody actually operating
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: You Know The Conservatives Are In Trouble When
….they start losing some of their biggest cheerleaders. Recommend this Post
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Hi Ho! Hi Ho! It’s Off To Court We Go! Or do we?
Hi Ho! Hi Ho! It’s Off To Court We Go! Or do we? PART 20 of the Canada Elections Act discusses Contested Elections: Means of contestation 522. (1) The validity of the election of a candidate may not be contested otherwise than in accordance with this Part. No effect on
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: He’s Making A List…
The dude/dudette from Sixth Estate has the best riding by riding deets on the Robocon scandal here. Who reported it, who won the riding and by how many votes. And someone in the comments notes this incident from 2008, which suggests that the CPoC has been pulling this stuff for
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Harper’s War On Democracy
Whether or not one believes that Stephen Harper had a direct hand in the robocall efforts to subvert the last election, one thing is perfectly clear: given his well-known contempt for our democratic traditions, he needs to recognize his responsibility in setting a tone that is odious to most Canadians,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Meet Matt Meier (Of RackNine)
Matt thinks the NDP has defamed him, and has fired off some legal paper-work. Given Matt’s links to the Harper Gov., it isn’t surprising that these documents have wound up in the hands of Stephen Taylor.
Continue readingPop The Stack: Harper’s Win-At-All-Costs Approach Led to Electoral Manipulation
The first wave of dust is settling from the revelation this week that a company hired by the Conservative party made fraudulent calls to voters trying to mislead them about voting day locations. We still don’t know how high up the decision was made to make these calls. I think we
Continue readingPop The Stack: Harper’s Win-At-All-Costs Approach Led to Electoral Manipulation
The first wave of dust is settling from the revelation this week that a company hired by the Conservative party made fraudulent calls to voters trying to mislead them about voting day locations. We still don’t know how high up the decision was made to make these calls. I think we
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: RackNine And The CPoC
The NDP research staff finds that the connections run deep.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More on Election Fraud
For anyone concerned about the rapidly deteriorating system we call democracy, I urge you to read Dr. Dawg, who has done his usual excellent job of putting the pieces together, this time on Conservative criminal acts that appear to have compromised the last federal election. Recommend this Post
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