A Senate page managed to stand just meters away from the prime minister with a sign saying “Stop Harper” during the government’s throne speech in Ottawa today. Brigette Marcelle De Pape had this to say after being escorted out of the …
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Driving The Porcelain Bus: A Senate page is fired for saying what most Canadians are saying
Senate page fired for anti-Harper protest – Politics – CBC News
Brigette DePape, a Senate page, stood on the Senate floor during the Governor General’s reading of the speech from the throne holding a Stop Harper sign. She was nearing the end of her …
Continue readingImpolitical: What happens when august institutions are disrespected
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It breeds disrespect. That reference in the blog post title is to Mr. Harper’s government and the actions it has taken which have bred that disrespect for one of the most esteemed institutions in Canada. The seat of our gov…
Continue readingLeDaro: Mike Duffy: A happy man
Why he looks so happy? Close to $140,000 a year plus many perks:Senators are eligible for retirement at age 55 and receive 75 percent of their salary as a pension. Other perks of being a senator include 64 round trips to anywhere in Canada every year a…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Harper’s Right to Appoint Senators
Lot’s of faux indignation amongst media and bloggers and politicians over Harper’s decistion to appoint three senators, including two who ran for election to the House of Commons, and lost. To judge from the response by some, you would think that Harpe…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Coward Thug Harper Appoints More Failures To The Senate
PM rewards three defeated Conservatives with Senate seats – The Globe and MailHow to become a senator under Harper? Show that the people don’t want you to represent them. Another way Harper shows his contempt for the Canadian people.Stephen Harper wast…
Continue readingPample the Moose: Cabinet and Senate: Ongoing bad behaviour is stability, of a sort
I don’t have much to observe about today’s developments in federal politics, except to say that I am profoundly unsurprised, unlike the madly twittering press corps. Harper’s favorite cabinet ministers, such as Baird and Clement, got prime posts. Har…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Our Conservative Supreme Court, courtesy of Michael Ignatieff
If Michael Ignatieff had not allowed himself to be spooked by Harper’s fearmongering in early 2008, we would have had a chance to implement the Coalition Agreement between the NDP and the Liberal Party, and for the next 18 months a progressive governme…
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: An open letter to @jacklayton on the future of the Senate
April 23, 2011
Dear Jack,
Recent media reports suggest that you see yourself running to be my next Prime Minister.
As you know, the Harper Tories now hold a majority in the Senate. as you also know, that Harper Tory Senate caucus is more than prep…
Continue readingPop The Stack: Write your MP about the Electoral Reform Motion
This is an email I just sent my member of parliament. If you care about electoral reform you should too. You can find your MP here. Here is the debate that took place in the House on it last week. Hello Joyce, I get a lot of your fliers in the mail and I am […]
Five of Five: Calgary Herald Opposes Basic Democracy
To no one’s surprise the Calgary Herald wrote an op-ed wholly justifying the Senate’s vote down of Bill C-311, the Climate Change Accountability Act. It seems so twisted, to me I can only summarise it in point form:The bill would cause irreparable econ…
Continue readingFive of Five: Link Byfield "Resigns"
Link Byfield resigned his position as one of Alberta’s senators-in-waiting today. I was hoping at his press conference he might have explained why his friend Senator Bert Brown participated in a shady vote down of a House of Commons Bill, passed by an…
Continue readingFlaherty: Deficit will be retired by 2011
OTTAWA – Faced with record federal debt, Finance Minister Smilin’ Jim Flaherty boldly predicted that the federal government’s deficit will be erased within twelve months. “We’re going to sell more Senate seats. These are a hot commodity, and they’ll fe…
Continue readingbastard.logic: Rand Paul Parties Like It’s 1964
by matttbastard Belated congratulations to newly-minted Kentucky GOP Senate candidate and latest Tea Party ubermensch of the moment Rand ‘Son of Ron’ Paul, for defeating the establishment candidate with Chuck Norris round-house kicks a well-fought insurgent primary campaign. Why, It’s enough to make … Continue reading →
Pop The Stack: Andrew Coyne speaks to the Liberal Party, but will they listen?
I’m just growing more and more fond of Andrew Coyne as time goes on. Maybe I’m getting older and more conservative, or maybe he’s getting less so. Or just maybe, the old templates of “conservative” and “liberal” aren’t nearly as useful as they once seemed to be. That is essentially the point of Coyne fantastic […]
Pop The Stack: The Next GG Should be Elected
News today that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is looking for a new Governor General. A number of names have already been suggested for possible replacements. I won’t speculate but my guess is we won’t get another former CBC employee. But I’d like to suggest to the Prime Minister that he think creatively about this choice. […]
Pop The Stack: Andrew Coyne’s Modest Proposal
The Canadian Interwebs are ablaze with anger over the recent prorogation of parliament and polls tell us that even the general population is quite upset. Hopefully the fast growing Facebook protest group “Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament” will tranlate into feet on the ground during the nationwide protests against proroguing on Jan 23, the Saturday before […]
Pop The Stack: You should read this about senate reform
You should read this about senate reform, espeically Jim Q’s comment on a PR solution http://ow.ly/TKs3 #cdnpoli #senatereform #fairvote
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Pop The Stack: Not Everyone Thinks Like You
Posted from a comment via HuffPost What I find really interesting is how this is further evidence that people always assume that others would do exactly as they themselves would do. Republicans think the Democrats would stop at nothing to stop something from the other party. Well, we know thats not true, they think too […]