Harper is my Prime Minister, so I want to help him. My suggestion is that he should name the cat Melancholy. Well, poor cat will have to put up with Stephen Harper and this name sounds appropriate 🙂 Any more suggestions?To read more, click here.
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Weekend update(s)
Some different stuff, starting this weekend.(a) I just gave blog contributor status to my better half, Ruth. This could end very badly. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. A partial explanation appears in (b) below…(b) We’re off to New Yo…
Continue readingLeDaro: HARPER THE RAMBO SET TO RULE
Afghanistan already mission accomplished according to Harper yet he has extended the mission for 3 years. Lead role in Libya intervention.Contracts for F35 for $9 billion plus and warships $50 billion plus. Get the world ready for a new superpower and …
Continue readingLeDaro: NOTHING TO LOSE
Interesting headline in The Huffington Post. The Monarch is all set to go. By the time he is finished you may not recognize Canada. Big hope is Jack Layton and how effective an opposition he will provide. Time for the Liberals to rebuild their party. L…
Continue readingthe reeves report: Re-imagining Canada in the World: Start by tackling Tall Poppy Syndrome
The Globe and Mail has been choc-a-bloc lately with guest columnists (academics, NATO ambassadors, think-tank CEO’s) talking about where the debate over Canada’s foreign policy has gone. It was conspicuously absent in the recent federal election campaign, as noted by Jeffrey Simpson back on April 6 when he wrote that “there is plenty to talk … Continue reading »
Leftist Jab: A Tale of Two Stephs: Stephen Harper and Stéphane Dion
Let’s turn the clock all the way back to 1991. The GST came into effect, the Paul Bernardo Murders traumatized Canada, the Gulf War got underway and MP Pierre-Luc Dusseault (NDP-Sherbrooke) was born.It’s on April 8th of that year that a pale-face and d…
Continue readingRedBedHead: The Tories’ Bankrupt Brains
“I see, said the blind man to the deaf dog, who wasn’t listening anyway” is a phrase that comes to mind reading reports of federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s press conference on the economy. Generally speaking we expect governments to do more to s…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading.- John Allemang’s profile of Jack Layton is well worth a read in full. But after a campaign where any show of support can easily be written off as a matter of party scripting, it’s well worth noting the spontane…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Benjamin Netanyahu and the Stooge Harper
Well at least now we know who is the architect of Canada’s Middle East policy, the Israeli right-wing blowhard Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu.
At the request of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper thwart…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On consensus-building
Kady’s post on the composition and chairing of committees notes that there’s some risk the Cons could try to use their majority to rewrite the rules. But it’s worth pointing out that there doesn’t look to be much precedent for that step in recent decad…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- thwap is among a few bloggers to rightly slam the Cons’ obscene message to flooded Quebeckers that the only way they can hope for help is if somebody stands to profit from it:Toews (is) justifying removing Canadian F…
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Poll: majority of Canadians support constitutional talks to reform Senate
It seems a new poll is out that says Canadians are more then willing right now to re-open the Constitution to do such things as Senate reform:
After almost two decades of constitutional peace, Harris-Decima survey conducted for The Canadian Press indicates a majority is now willing to risk re-opening the constitutional can of worms to accomplish some specific goals…For instance, 61 per cent said they’re prepared to re-open the Constitution to reform or abolish the appointed Senate. And 58 per cent said they’re willing to offer constitutional amendments in a bid to finally secure Quebec’s signature on the Constitution. Fifty-eight per cent also said they’re willing to open […]
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Well-financed Rick Orman candidacy a grave setback to Ted Morton’s hopes
Beulah, peel me a grape! Alberta Conservative candidate Rick Orman aloft, with grapes on a silver tray and friends. This photo appeared in my in-box, source unknown. Below: Ted Morton.Question: Who wins when Ted Morton and Rick Orman battle it out for …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jimbo Flaherty and the Killer Budget
Oh no. I see the nasty Con gnome Jimbo Flaherty has morphed into his even more evil cousin. After saying his budget would be the same as the last one, now he says it includes bribing Quebec, and killing the Liberal Party.”Basically this is the Mar…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons and the Corruption of Canada
Start with a government that practically bought itself a majority with its porky action plan. A government that lies, cheats, and covers up everything.A government that wants to jail thousands of young Canadians for the “crime” of smoking marijua…
Continue readingLeftist Jab: Stephen Harper’s First Priority: Consolidating Power
Two news stories that have been reported but people have failed to link together are:-Harper government moving to to end “per vote” subsidies.-Internal battle within the Conservatives brewing over voting rules.Key points about the first story is that t…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: The Church of the NDP is closed, and good riddance!
Typical NDP meeting in days of yore. Below: Jack Layton.In the last hours of the 2011 federal election campaign, as word of Jack Layton’s Orange Wave spread to a wondering Canada, a longtime New Democrat supporter of my acquaintance made the followin…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Israeli newspaper reports U.S. may scrap F-35
A radar-evading F-35 “Flying Bathtub” fighter waits on the tarmac for takeoff. Below, U.S. Sen. John McCain in jet-flying duds, back in the day.Well, you know how it goes: here today, gone tomorrow…Anyway, this just in from Israel: The United Sta…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Why the Canadian Wheat Board should matter to all of us
Prairie strong no longer? Harper’s renewed attack on the Canadian Wheat Board | rabble.ca
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The Canadian Wheat Board represents some 75,000 grain growers, and handles all Western wheat and barley destined for export and human use. The CWB is 100…
Driving The Porcelain Bus: Actually Stephen, the taxpayers dollars go to the parties they support.
Budget will mean curtains for party funds: minister | iPoliticsStephen Harper is lying to the public, again. He is trying to make you think that you are funding parties you don’t support. Well, you don’t.Currently, political parties receive $2 annually…
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