While even I can reach my saturation point when it comes to tales of Senate fraud and corruption, I found this portrait of Senator Pam Wallin in today’s Toronto Star rather interesting. Apparently the former broadcaster is known for her political ambitions, having unseated and replaced Liberal Colin Kenney from
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Politics and its Discontents: A Tale of Two Moralities
A message from your Harper Government to all E.I. claimants: A message from your Harper Government to all Canadians regarding allegations of fraud in the Senate: Fortunately, the NDP didn’t get the memo. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Ongoing Outrage
The host of letters appearing in today’s Star attests to the ongoing public outrage over the Senate porkbarrellers. Although in many ways a mere sideshow to the endemic and systemic problems that face our governance, it nonetheless illustrates that Canadian anger, when it can be aroused, can be formidable. I
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: This One Isn’t Much of a Challenge
But apparently our Prime Minister heartily disagrees, constitutional requirements notwithstanding (BNA Act 23:5). Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Does Mike Duffy Have ‘Pump Head’?
Well, in the tried and true tradition of governments announcing embarrassing news on Fridays, ‘P.E.I. Senator’ Mike Duffy kinda sorta admitted to maybe an error, thanks to ‘confusing senate forms’ asking for his primary residence. Not that he did anything wrong, of course, but after 80 days of what Tim
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Because
… I just couldn’t resist reposting this morning’s Star editorial cartoon. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Scourge of the Undead
While there was much talk in the House of Commons yesterday about how to prevent a ‘zombie apocalypse,’ in Canada, Bob Hepburn has his own solution on how to deal with the scourge of the undead: hold a referendum on abolishing the Senate. Noting that it costs well over $100
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: "…a bombastic partisan apologist for the prime minister "
The above is one of the descriptions offered of the much beleaguered ‘PEI’ Senator Mike Duffy in a trenchant assessment written by the Star’s Tim Harper in today’s edition. Harper reminds us of the ease with which the Puffster abandoned whatever journalistic integrity he might have once possessed as soon
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Why Is This Man Smiling?
Could it have anything to do with the fact that he has made a successful career out of masquerades? First, of course, Mike Duffy donned the mask of a political reporter, pretending to be an objective seeker of the truth, initially for CBC and then later for CTV, all the
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