CAQ Shows Off Federalist Appeal in Argenteuil by-election
… by nominating the former Bloc Québécois MP for the area to run the upcoming provincial by-election in Argenteuil. The Coalition Avenir Québec, headed up by former péquiste MNA and…
May 2012
At least John Baird is being honest
Shorter John Baird: We didn’t like the advice we were getting about environmental policy or suggestions, so we killed the arm-length’s advisory board because of it. So, basically, if you’re…
Juxtapose
This is a refreshing political tone: In a dignified ceremony in a red and gold hall in the Élysée Palace, François Hollande, 57, was invested Tuesday morning as president of…
Standards, Please!
When you visit to the website of the The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council you get this message: …which Google expands upon as follows: If I am guessing correctly, someone added…
$1.28 billion over the next four years
GOVERNMENT ENERGY POLICY AND ELECTRICITY GENERATION COSTS A. Dix: My question is to the Minister of Energy. The government’s energy policy has stripped away B.C. Hydro’s ability to capitalize on…
The Old Wooden Mace #nlpoli
The Telegram’s James McLeod took some time during a recent Estimates committee hearing on Monday to dash off a post at his blog about the ceremonial aspects of the legislature…
Heartland Expert Exodus Update: 3 Staunch Defenders, 1 Quiet De-Listing
A number of folks I’ve emailed re the HI Institute billboard fiasco, who you’d think would probably come out in defense of the institute, have done so. Here’s a response…
Québec student protests send a powerful message
Québec education minister Line Beauchamp has resigned. In making the announcement she said “I am resigning because I have decided I am not part of the solution.” She denies that…
Evildoers prefer secrets stay secret
Sins of colonialists lay concealed for decades in secret archive, Ian Cobain and Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, Apr. 18, 2012 “In June 1957, Eric Griffiths-Jones, the attorney general of the…
Thank You John Baird, You Saved My Life
Michael Ignatieff hated Canada, he was repeatedly caught feeding off of beaver spinal cord fluid. The Gun Registry was moments away from assigning bar codes to the foreheads of farmers’…
What kind of message will Alison Redford send Stephen Harper in the next federal election?
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Calgary West MP Rob Anders plot the destruction of Alberta Premier Alison Redford and her Progressive Conservative Party. Warning: neo-Con Alberta politicians may not have…
When they don’t care about the answer
Jack Knox column: Students show the way to a fair hearing, Times Colonist, May 13, 2012 “…This is what all of Canada could use right now: a listening competition. “Had…
In today’s Sun: Con war room, missing in action
Brad Lavigne looked stumped, for a moment or two. Lavigne — the brilliant Jack Layton loyalist who helped pilot the New Democratic Party to its historic gains in the election…
If I Were A…Conservative?
Today’s post deals mostly with subjective reasoning; I’ve often wondered what my life would be like if I were a Conservative. And that is going to be the subject of…
The McCarthyite Cons and the Dutch Disease
OK. So I was wrong. When Christy Clark became the latest Con stooge to denounce Thomas Mulcair, for simply pointing out that the Dutch Disease is killing our manufacturing sector,…
Eighteen degrees
That’s how cold the water was in the pool this evening. And still, Mallory and her friend C went for a brief swim, dunking their heads and all. Of course…
Sentencing For Terry Tremaine Set
Paul Fromm has been complaining about the delays. I assume then that he is happy about this. FURTHER TO the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal (2011 FCA 297)…