From the archives: Mike Duffy defends Conservative Senate expenses
I kid you not. Several years ago, shortly after Mike Duffy was handed his cushy Senate gig, he appeared on a national news broadcast in, well, rough shape defending Conservative…
May 2013
49:1 Is Not 50:50
Forty-Nine to One is not Fifty-Fifty. Climate change denialists like to spread it on thick and claim there’s some fierce debate over the reality of anthropogenic global warming and there…
NDP Campaign-The Topp Guy Was Not All That Kool!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger One of the burning questions begging for answers as to WTF happened that saw the BCNDP lose the election is how is that Brian Topp ran the…
6005…Senator Duffy Quits On The Tories
After they have done so much for him. Does not look like he is going to give up on the Senate thing though. Would you? I wouldn’t. WFDS
Piscine Reovirus Pt. 2: Evolution of a New Salmon Virus
Strange things can happen when salmon eat chickens. Such a diet is unprecedented and bizarre, a violation of the biological order that has occurred over millions of years of evolutionary…
What the Mike Duffy Scandal Says About Canadian Democracy — And What the Conservatives Think It Will Say
In case you’ve been sleeping under a rock for the last few months, the National Post’s Matt Gurney has a useful summary of Mike Duffy’s corrupt antics in the Senate,…
Michael Froman: Don’t Criminalize Our Internet
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Bell/Astral still bad for Canadians- and they know it
The CRTC held a public hearing last week in response to Bell—Canada’s largest telecom and media conglomerate—once again attempting to take over Astral Media. Last year, the telecom giant unveiled…
6004…Adrian Dix Saves Ontario
Yeah, he did. Coz if he, the leader of the British Columbia NDP, had of held on to the monster lead he had in the polls of this week’s election…
Non-voters Don’t Impact a Mandate
I never liked it when it was said federally about the CPC, and I don’t like it being said about the BC Liberals. Counting non-voters into statistics to claim the…
Anybody Heard of the ‘Government Telecommunications and Informatics Service?’
My Duffy post earlier today seems to have drawn the attention of some Ottawa outfit called the Government Telecommunications and Informatics Service. Anyone know anything about them?
barcelona to granada
We are relaxing recuperating in our room in the Hotel Molinas in Granada, in the south of Spain. File this day under all’s well that ends well. Our last night…
Kerry Diotte the front-runner … for now.
For months now, the city has been watching a tedious production called Waiting for Stephen to come to its end — is Mayor Mandel in, or is he out? All…
6003…What You Don’t Hear About Duffy
Is the simple fact that he got into this mess coz he has been the town drunk in Ottawa since the day he arrived in this city. Arnold’s, The Mayflower,…
New ‘Wisdom’ From Pat Robertson
Who knows? With a little modification, Robertson’s advice to the wife who has been cheated on might offer a new spin direction for the Harper regime, especially in its current…
Don’t mourn, organize: lessons from the BC election
Based on the past twelve years, another four under the BC Liberals does not bode well for public education. But that all depends. There is no question that the BC…
6002…Mike Duffy Meet Floyd Mayweather
You are aware that the esteemed Senator representing Kanata-PEI is a bit cash short. That is why the PMO’s boss Nigel Wright had to gift him 90,000.00 . Here is…
BC provincial election lessons
Well, having had my whining rant, I might as well get in on the post mortem. I’m substantially in agreement with Greg Fingas of Accidental Deliberations’ column here, which helped…