Oh no. I can't believe it. She's at it again. Rona Ambrose just can't stop scaring people, and has absolutely no idea of her own limitations. Just a few days ago she was terrorizing the peaceful residents of Vancouver by posing as a Health Minister AND a Justice Minister. And demanding
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Montreal Simon: The Painful Re-Education of the Con Clown Rona Ambrose
The other day I told you how the Con clown Rona Ambrose was causing a frightful scandal in Vancouver.Making herself look like an absolute idiot, by screaming that marijuana was a killer weed, and NOBODY should consume it. Not even sick people prescribed it by their doctors. And loudly demanding
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC Health officials back Vancouver’s plan to license pot shops
Richard Hughes PM Steve’s Health Minister Rona Ambrose sees pot as a narcotic that is an addictive substance. Where do these people come from. Are they really Martians? It sure feels as if Read more…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rona Ambrose and the Great Con War on Marijuana
You might think that the Harper regime had annoyed the people of Vancouver enough recently, with their slow response to the oil spill in English Bay.And their outrageous claims that it was a "world class" operation.But no, apparently not. Because now after James Moore's world class buffoon act.Here comes that
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Bill C-51 Will End Up Hurting Stephen Harper
They say Stephen Harper is fit to be tied, or restrained.He can't stand the idea that his monstrously flawed anti-terrorism bill C-51 is going to take weeks, rather than a few days to study in committee.And what must be driving him absolutely crazy is the thought that with every passing
Continue readingIn This Corner: A message from Our Conservative Government.
This week, I received via Canada Post a handy little booklet from my ever-smiling Member of Parliament, Rona Ambrose. It’s called a Tax Tips Guide, subtitled Helping You and Your Family Save More, a 15-page (!) booklet of tax tips from the federal government, outlining how I can save money
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Health Canada Fails Us Yet Again
On this blog I have frequently extolled the fine investigative journalism practised by The Toronto Star. Whether on issues of municipal, provincial, or federal significance, The Star, as it frequently proclaims, “gets action.” From the standpoint of average Canadians, probably one of its most important investigations in recent times has
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Monstrous Ebola Scandal
A few days ago I pointed out that Stephen Harper was trying to fan the flames of an Ebola panic.Even though his response to the epidemic has been lethally inadequate. And far from making us safer he has been decimating the ranks of those who would protect us from dangerous diseases.But this
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Alberta politics this week: Health Ministers, By-Elections and Troubled Waters Ahead
TweetBANFF – Stepping onto the national stage for the first time since he was appointed as Alberta’s Minister of Health, Stephen Mandel met with his provincial and federal counterparts this week in Banff for the annual Health Ministers meeting. Mr. Mandel co-chaired the meeting, a role his predecessor, Fred Horne, had planned to
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: It’s Why I Subscribe
To borrow a line from one of my favourite Shakespearean plays, Macbeth, “So fair and foul a day I have not seen.” It is fair because the newspaper I subscribe to and heartily endorse, The Toronto Star, has achieved a victory whose significance cannot be overestimated. Thanks to its investigative
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Possible Soution To Health Canada’s Willful Impotence
Yesterday I wrote about the fact that Health Canada has ‘convinced’ (not ordered) Apotex to stop importing drugs from one of its suspect plants in Bangalore, India. The agency’s (and Health Minister Rona Ambrose’s) ongoing timid relationship with pharmaceuticals at the expense of our health and safety suggests stronger measures
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Health Canada’s Willful Impotence on Tainted Pharmaceuticals
As I have written previously, the scandal of tainted pharmaceuticals continues, and that which should provoke outrage and demands for accountability seems to elicit for the most part only shrugs and mild interest. And were it not for the Toronto Star’s ongoing quest, most of us would be totally unaware
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Star Readers Respond To Health Canada’s Fecklessness
While “Let them swallow tainted pharmaceuticals” seems to be the motto of both Health Minister Rona Ambrose and Health Canada, always-vigilant Star readers take issue with such deference to the corporate agenda. Here is just a small sampling of their reactions: Good thing we have the FDA and the Star
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Tainted Pharmaceuticals: Health Canada’s ‘Feeble Response’
The Toronto Star has recently been conducting some fine investigative work on tainted pharmaceuticals and the fact that Health Canada has been shielding the guilty companies from public scrutiny. The issue finally rose to a degree of national prominence this week when the issue was raised in the House. The
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More Indifference From Health Canada’s Towards Canadians’ Health
Health Minister Rona Ambrose really has no reason to smile. Last week, based on a Star Investigation, I outlined the shocking incompetence, indifference and completely unacceptable secrecy within Health Canada that allows for tainted, ineffective, and dangerous drugs to be sold regularly to Canadians. It was only because of the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Denial And Outrage
During my teaching career, it was occasionally my unpleasant task to confront a student with evidence of his or her cheating; most situations revolved around plagiarizing essays or having skipped a test. The student’s responses when confronted were invariably the same; indeed, they tended to parallel Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ five stages
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Reefer Madness and the Corruption of Rona Ambrose
Well it could have been just another day in the glamorous life of Rona Ambrose Health Minister. Serving the public, like an Angel of Mercy, and servicing Stephen Harper, like the Angel of Death.Not necessarily in that order. But then she blew it. Again. By trying to make the country's
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Parties gear up for federal election 2015 – Alberta nominations update
TweetAside from recent updates about Kent Hehr running in Calgary-Centre and Darshan Kang running in Calgary-Skyview, it has been a while since I have published an update to accompany the list of candidate nominations for the next federal election, expected to be held in 2015. So, without further ado, let me present you
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Regime and the Honey Bee Apocalypse
In the garden of a waterfront theatre not far from where I live, there is a little band of bees. They've been there for years, and time and the elements have taken their toll. Their colours have faded a little and some of their wings have fallen off. But they're
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Big names running for federal party nominations in Alberta
TweetThere has been plenty of activity this week as candidates from all political parties put forward their names to run in Canada’s next federal election, scheduled to be held in October 2015. Wooing voters and potential candidates alike, both New Democratic Party leader Thomas Mulcair and Liberal Party leader Justin
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