A section of a tunnel in Montreal collapsed over the weekend, which I’m sure will reignite the debate over the Champlain
Bridge and other crumbling infrastructure in that city. In fact, if there was a
Question Period held today, we could start a new round of a drinking game about
it. But I guess we’ll have to wait for September to play.
Just to convince you that they’re really
looking out for your interests when they released the names and photos of their
“suspected war criminals,” the government is releasing stories of some of the
suspects like this one, who looks like he did bad things, to convince you.
Because if there’s one bad apple who trying to avoid deportation, they must
therefore all be.
Nycole Turmel is preparing to become the
Conservatives’ number one target.
Here’s a look at Jack Layton’s core team of advisors that engineered his leadership and rise.
Here’s a reminder about the way that Harper’s cabinet works – the full cabinet only meets two or three times a year
(unlike under Chrétien, where it was weekly), in secret, and all of the work is
done by cabinet committees, also in secret. Sensing a pattern here?
Susan Delacourt looks at Sheila Copps’ potential bid for the Liberal Party presidency.
NDP MP Ryan Cleary was denied a visit to
the military base in Gander, despite having been invited by a senior official
at the base. Cleary says that Peter MacKay is playing politics, and he’s
probably right.
CSIS and the Security and Intelligence
Review Committee are at odds over whether or not CSIS engages in “disruption”
while investigating terror threats. SIRC says they engage in it, while CSIS
insists they don’t, and it all heads up to the chain to the Minister’s office.
The Canadian Forces are looking to update their uniform designs, for those of you who are into uniforms.
And Bill Siksay was featured in the
Vancouver Pride Parade for his work on the trans rights bill (not that the Straight
could get their facts correct on what actually happened).
