Stephen Harper has acquired a house in the Canadian Arctic and he is moving there permanently. 🙂 Arctic deserves him and he deserves Arctic and being there he will be keeping an eye on the Arctic and its sovereignty.
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Montreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Con Army
I see that Stephen Harper's Great Con Clown Tour of the Arctic, has ended with another phony photo-op. Prime Minister Stephen Harper took in a military training operation in Hudson Bay on the final day of his northern tour Friday, observing a scenario involving Canadian Forces intercepting an ecotourism boat carrying
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Radicals for our coast: New Democrat MPs and community reps (VIDEO)
A must-watch video on the ongoing fight against Enbridge’s cursed pipeline. The following New Democrat MPs visit Terrace, Kitimat and Kitamaat, British Columbia, and discuss the energy giant’s proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline: Deputy Leader and Environment critic, Megan Leslie (Halifax); House Leader, Nathan Cullen (Skeena-Bulkley Valley); Public Safety & LGBTT
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Canada Politics News Roundup For Friday, August 24, 2012
The revelation that the Harper Government has authorized the use of information gleaned through torture is the highlight of our summary today.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Cannibal Club (continued)
Holy Moly. For a moment I thought Stephen Harper was playing the good nun again in the Con version of the Sound of Music. You know, the one where Jason Kenney plays the grim Mother Superior who beseeches the young nun to control her lustful urges, and Climb Every Mountain. Like he
Continue readingLeDaro: Stephen Harper: Is he a cannibal?
“It seems the rumours that Stephen Harper is part of the cannibal club are spreading.” Tory MP Ryan Leef introduced the PM in Carcross as “PM of Cannibals”, Yukon.For the second time this week, Stephen Harper was introduced as the “prime minister of cannibal,” this time by Environment Minister Peter
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Another Conservative MP Calls Harper “Prime Minister of Cannibal” (VIDEO)
For a second straight day, a Conservative MP hosting Stephen Harper introduces the Dear Leader as “the prime minister of Cannibal”.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on the tendency for political parties to try to glorify past leaders by plastering their names and faces on the map – and the potential for Jack Layton’s legacy to be based on a far more direct connection to citizens. For further reading…– Politico documents some of the Republicans’
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Conservative MP insults Canadians with confused take on F-35 jet plan
Yesterday we’d a jolly good laugh when Yukon Tory MP Ryan Leef got overjoyed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s visit and invited those gathered to “join me in welcoming back to the Yukon, the Prime Minister of Cannibal.” Conservative MP, Chris Alexander’s recent take on the F-35 fighter jet controversy
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Cannibal Country
OMG. The horror, the horror. Is that Hannibal or Harper? I was hoping that Great Ugly Leader's Tour of the North would be a total bust eh? But who knew things could go so horribly, wonderfully, wrong? Yesterday the critics were calling it a doggy circus. Today they're accusing him
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Conservative MP Ryan Leef Calls Harper “Prime Minister of Cannibal” (VIDEO)
Oooops! The Dear Leader makes his Conservative lieutenants wet their pants, doesn’t he? Last night, Yukon Tory MP Ryan Leef was so overjoyed by Harper’s visit that he invited those gathered to “join me in welcoming back to the Yukon, the Prime Minister of Cannibal… (laughter), Canada, the Right Honorable,
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Anti-union Wildrose Party’s fund-raising pitch piggybacks on union’s heavy lifting
Closed? Open? With Alberta Diary you can have it all. This blog is closed for a few days while your blogger takes a short break from writing stuff all the time. This means there can likely be no post on the Conservative Party’s Calgary Centre by-election nomination on Friday, Aug.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Teabagger
Golly. Don't look now eh? But I hear that Stephen Harper has fallen hard for the new Republican heartthrob Paul Ryan. You have to believe that the duo of Stephen Harper and Jim Flaherty are salivating at the chance to work with a Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan White House. Ryan is
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Departed MP’s endorsement, big donations by candidate’s firm, complicate complicated Conservative nomination race
Candidates for the Conservative Party’s nomination in the Calgary Centre constituency prepare for next Saturday’s vote. Below: Candidates Greg McLean, Joan Crockatt and Jon Lord. Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to … get elected. The contest to find a federal Conservative candidate to replace
Continue readingLeDaro: Prayers
Have you prayed lately? If not then try this. Update: Or try cowboy Whirling Dervish.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jimbo Flaherty and the Con Country Snatchers
Oh goody. Another episode of The Invasion of the Con Country Snatchers. And tonight it's one of the scariest ones ever !!!! For as Jim Flaherty prepares to meet with business leaders, we find out what kind of Canada they would like us to live in. Read more »
Continue readingAlberta Diary: U.S. grain and seed ports will kill a few more Canadian jobs – with a little help from Stephen Harper
Bunge’s $200-million US grain port at Longview, Wash. Below, U.S. police and strikers scuffle at the port. Back in 2009, when the destruction of the Canadian Wheat Board was still just a twinkle in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s eye, work started on a $200-million US grain-handling terminal in the port
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons and the Patronage Machine
Uh oh. I see the sign on the Con Farm barn has been changed. Ignorance is Strength is still there. But Patronage is Bad, the slogan that Great Napoleon Leader used against the Liberals, has been subtly revised. Now it reads Patronage is Porky, as in normal. Or yummy. Read more
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Tobi Cohen picks up on the possibility of a provincial NDP in Quebec, and notes that the federal party is considering what can be done before the next election after that set for September: NDP national director Chantale Vallerand told Postmedia News talks
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Your Choice For Canada’s Next Top Soldier Is? (POLL)
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is reportedly involved in the selection of Canada’s next top soldier, the Chief of Defence Staff.
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