Nobody here but us poppy farmers! Really! Below: Mao Zedong and a visitor not dissimilar in many ways from certain recent Canadian politicians.Mao Zedong, a guy who may have known a thing or two about guerrilla warfare, famously observed: “The guerri…
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Another Example of How Sucking Up To Stevie Spiteful Pays Off
In spades! Betcha Loose Larry Cannon must stamping his widdle feet somewhere. No senate seat; no diplomatic post. Perhaps Stevie is catching enough flack for sending loser Harpercon candidates to the senate, so he figured, let’s give a disgraced ex-premier a diplomatic post –and we’ll make it someone from a provincial Liberal party too so . . . → Read More: Another Example of How Sucking Up To Stevie Spiteful Pays Off
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: If There is a Referendum, I Will Vote to Abolish the Senate
There is a lot of discussion about Stephen Harper’s plans to reform the Senate, by placing term limits of nine years, but only on those appointed after 2008.Most of the opposition is coming from Harper’s own senate appointments, many of whom have been …
Continue readingHello? Hello?
I’m normally not one for telling tales out of school. But having sat it on a handful of meetings between Prime Ministers and Premiers, and having regularly set up phone calls for a Prime Minister with several of his provincial counterparts – sometime…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Expectations
Having jacked expectations through the ceiling, Kathy Dunderdale better convince Stephen Harper to commit to halt the transfer of the jobs at the coast guard search and rescue co-ordination office in St. John’s to Halifax. If she gets nothing, then …
Continue readingI Guess It’s Time To Reinstall The Asbestos In Stevie Harper’s Home Since It’s So Safe And Requires No Warning Labels
Quelle surprise! Looks like Canada will be, once again, refusing to vote to add Chrysotile asbestos to the list of hazardous materials to Annex III of the Rotterdam Convention. Once again, here’s the brief explanation of this list:
Putting chrysotile asbestos on the Annex III list of the Rotterdam Convention would let countries where . . . → Read More: I Guess It’s Time To Reinstall The Asbestos In Stevie Harper’s Home Since It’s So Safe And Requires No Warning Labels
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On matters of principle
Stephen Harper on how we’re supposed to perceive the Cons’ foreign policy, as described just weeks ago:The Prime Minister reflected this new reality in his triumphalist speech to the Conservative party faithful on the weekend, where he articulated Cana…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: JP Morgan Fined $153.6M For Doing God’s Work
It is becoming increasingly evident that the so-called “Economic Crisis” was carefully engineered to force governments to tear down their welfare states.The 153.6 million fine for JP Morgan is a drop in the bucket, when we look at the billions of dolla…
Continue readingthe reeves report: RCMP finally investigates Muskoka’s G8 ‘Legacy Infrastructure’
Uh oh – time for Tony Clement to get all huffy and defiant again because dammit, we just wont go away with the questions about how $50M was distributed throughout Muskoka! Circle the wagons, ’cause the RCMP are coming, Tony! First off, it’s about damn time someone looked into this! Chances are when something looks … Continue reading »
Oh Stevie! One of Your Ex-Cabinet Ministers Wants You To Do The Right Thing
As I’ve mentioned last Thursday, today is the day the UN votes whether or not to include chrysotile asbestos on a list of hazardous products on the Rotterdam Convention. Stevie Spiteful has been remaining mum on what he’ll do today, but most are of the opinion he’ll vote to keep that poison off . . . → Read More: Oh Stevie! One of Your Ex-Cabinet Ministers Wants You To Do The Right Thing
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Stephen Harper’s Senate ‘reform’ scheme has nothing to do with democracy
Tim Uppal with your blogger, discussing something other than abolishing the Senate, about which we’re just going to have to agree to disagree. Below: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama.Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s bill to “democratize” the Canadian …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: When the Con Party Animals Go Wild
Lardy. Bean me with a bacon bit…or a Vienna sausage. They don’t call them Con hogs for nothing eh? But who knew they were such party animals?
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s own department has repeatedly broken the government’s toug…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Do as I say, not as I do…
Given the hoops that Public Servants are forced to jump through to be able to have coffee available at a meeting, this type of stuff REALLY pisses me off!
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s own department has repeatedly broken the government’s tough rules for hospitality spending.
An internal report on how the Privy Council Office spent $340,000 on […]
Stevie Spiteful’s Asbestos Hypocrisy, Johnny-Boy Charest, Would Be Modern Day Shylock, Their Enablers And Canadacausescancer.ca
Stevie Spiteful, as you all know by now, boys ‘n’ girls, still refuses to add asbestos to the list of hazardous materials at the Rotterdam Convention. To be specific, as Pogge pointed out earlier, according to the article from Mia Rabson,
Substances on the list are not banned but countries exporting them must . . . → Read More: Stevie Spiteful’s Asbestos Hypocrisy, Johnny-Boy Charest, Would Be Modern Day Shylock, Their Enablers And Canadacausescancer.ca
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Jack Layton May Have Sold Out for Nothing
I mentioned yesterday being surprised that every single NDP voted in favour of bombing the hell out of Libya.Layton performed his usual posturing, saying yes drop those 1000 bombs, but then I’m going to say enough. What an amazing blowhard he has turne…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Harper wants 100% control of the media, not just 90%
LAWRENCE MARTIN: Shades of Nixon: The PM’s media suspicions | iPolitics
Harper is aiming to wage a war against the so-called Liberal media – the media of which 90% supported the Conservatives in the recent election. Harper wants control of that last …
Accidental Deliberations: Unquestioned
Yes, Chantal Hebert is right to point out the glaring disconnect between the help the media has offered the Cons, and the constant scorn it’s received in return. But there’s even more glaring evidence of the Cons’ manipulations in how the party is curr…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: All according to plan
Oh, that poor, unfortunate Stephen Harper. If he could have counted on his party’s Senate majority to allow its own institution to be reformed, he might have faced some pressure to make the composition of the Senate somewhat less out of touch with the …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Crawford Kilian interviews Linda McQuaig on inequality, including this comment on how to handle the damaging effects of inequality politically:On whether inequality is becoming a serious political issu…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: So Who’s the Elitist Now?
Rhys Kesselman, Canada Research Chair in Public Finance and a professor at Simon Fraser University’s School of Public Policy, has an op-ed in the Globe and Mail discussing the Harper government’s new tax policies, clearly designed to benefit the high…
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